MEGA CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1. Cut of beef 6. Amassed

10. Milk-jelly dessert 15. Unreturnable serves 18. Handy

19. Chubbier

20. Pass tongue over 22. Actor, Al ... 23. Nonsense 24. Obliterates

25. In French it’s ‘Le’ 26. Because

28. Paris cathedral, ... Dame 30. Hair product 31. Seaweed & rice roll 32. Vocal solo

33. Relieves

34. Fragment

35. Unruly youngster 37. Porridge cereal 39. Repetitive strain injury (1,1,1)

40. Bangkok cuisine

42. Skin irritation 45. Gallivanting

48. Home stereo (2-2) 49. Harmless (to eat) 50. Thickest

53. Owned

54. Pilfered 56. Minimum amount 59. More pallid

61. Pod vegetable 62. Refashion

63. Play truant

64. Elect

65. Snowfield lift (1-3) 66. Plastic pipes material (1,1,1) 68. Pots & pans

69. Alias (1,1,1)

70. Egg meals

71. Distance gauges

72. April, ..., June

73. Book of synonyms 74. Computer port type (1,1,1) 76. Object

78. Perfumed burning stick 80. Stank

81. Rebels

84. Big-Ears’ friend 85. Facilitate

87. Accede

89. Sunset

92. Occupied 94. Mouse-catching device 96. Occupation by armed forces

97. Pest

98. Gold leaf

100. Central American nation 101. Avoid

104. Laughed mockingly 105. Informer

107. Larynx, ... box 108. Transition to a higher rank 112. Satellite path

113. Word processor operators 115. Junkies

117. Take to court

118. Most annoyed 120. Receptacle 121. Compensate

123. Hasty

125. Symptom of infection 126. Potential (buyer) 127. Sponge

129. Fire exit 130. Chomped

131. Details, ... & outs 133. Russia’s ... Mountains 134. Coach

136. Main artery 137. Lily-livered

140. Dutch bulb

141. GPS direction-finder, sat ... 142. Tiny pools

146. Ark builder 147. Ceremonial splendour 148. Hide

152. Zodiac crossover

154. Feng ...

155. Snowy peak

156. Stead

157. Leave hurriedly

159. Give birth (of dog) 160. Carpentry spike 162. Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona ...

164. Guitar sound 165. Liqueur, ... Maria 167. Ladder steps

169. Talked up

171. Crone

173. Lime or grapefruit 174. Passionate 175. Incendiary bullet 177. Water grass

178. Made certain 179. Embodiment

180. Chow

181. Holders

182. Nasal cavities

183. Aides

DOWN

1. Smack

2. Clingy person

3. Resettled

4. Conjuring trick

5. Pointy-featured

6. Horse’s headgear

7. Greenish-blue

8. Removes smells from

9. Rely

10. Dull (knife)

11. As American as ... (5,3)

12. Slipshod

13. Din

14. Moose

16. Supply food

17. Spanish rest period

20. Beers

21. Prison rooms

27. Till (4,8)

29. Brittle bone disorder

35. Clergyman

36. Elderly

38. Radiating light

41. Fully-grown

43. Upon

44. Cuban capital

46. Lose speed

47. Impudent

51. Arctic

52. Betrothal

55. Utah’s Salt ... City

56. Scripture support desk

57. Sports ground

58. Loomed

60. Mimicked

67. Affected shyness

69. Separated, torn ...

72. Pondered

75. Purchase (entire stock) (3,2)

77. Metal leg splints

79. Padded

82. Issue (from)

83. Zoo inmates

86. Saying

88. Precise

90. Tertiary student campus

91. Personal effects

92. Hotel

93. Genetic code carrier (1,1,1)

94. For now, pro ...

95. Abdominal muscles

98. Emits, ... off

99. Tarries

102. Drank

103. Indented (3,2)

104. Thrown overboard

106. Welcoming 108. Discovering (whereabouts) 109. Car frame

110. Clumsily

111. Staged Christmas story (8,4) 114. Boozy jaunt (3-5) 116. Invite (4,4)

119. Ships’ bottoms

122. Saliva

124. Food choice list

125. Not private

128. Of cattle

130. Artist’s tool

132. Carve

135. Dines late

138. Breath

139. Litheness

141. ... & void

143. Skyward 144. Sideboards

145. Strong coffee

149. Al fresco

150. Prattles 151. Long-haired hound 153. Unknot

158. Margins 161. Incidental comments

163. A wolf in ... clothing (5’1) 166. Objects

168. Standards

170. Opera singer, ... donna 172. Oak fruit

173. Season’s produce 176. Actor, ... Ifans

“WHEN WE WERE CHILDREN, WE ALL PLAYED DRESS-UP AND EVERYBODY HAD A GOOD TIME. SO WHY STOP?”

IRIS APFEL