MEGA CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1. Causing a nuisance

6. Actor/director, Kenneth ...

10. Clears of guilt

15. Wearing footwear

18. Argues

19. Fishermen

20. Lamb bleats

22. Tranquil

23. Extracted (tooth) (4,3)

24. Passing crazes

25. Details, ... & outs

26. Basil & parmesan sauce

28. Overturn

30. Otherwise titled (1,1,1)

31. Additional

32. Unknown writer

33. Green

34. Reed instruments

35. Drug addict

37. Hitler follower

39. Chapter in history

40. Pen fluids

42. London gallery group

45. Bears witness (to)

48. Departed

49. Xmas carol, The First ...

50. Most lascivious

53. Her Royal Highness (1,1,1)

54. Came to

56. Rib playfully

59. Manicured items

61. Angry crowd

62. Noddy’s creator, ... Blyton

63. Liqueur, ... Maria

64. Row

65. Udder tip

66. Spacing key

68. Prudish (6-5)

69. Doleful

70. Generous

71. Oblong

72. Destructive tearaway

73. Dear

74. Nucleus

76. Person in the know

78. Chubbier

80. Singer, Bob ...

81. NCOs

84. Scraping by, ... out a living

85. Leave! (2,4)

87. Moved on wheeled boots

89. Young boys

92. Standard of comparison

94. Leer

96. Inhabit

97. Indirect meaning 98. Maternity ward delivery 100. Be encouraged (4,5) 101. Ugly old women

104. Press down (4,2) 105. Rarely

107. S American animal 108. Rusting

112. Crave, ... for

113. Beards

115. Achieves

117. Part of stove 118. Treatment giver 120. Battery size (1,1,1) 121. Thistle-like vegetable 123. From Addis Ababa 125. Cuddle

126. Final straight (4,7)

127. Tiny muscular contraction 129. Weight unit

130. Tree secretion

131. Metal bar

133. Installs (carpet) 134. Actor, ... Brynner 136. Grand or upright 137. Yawns open

140. Rink

141. Yes vote

142. Wed

146. Petroleum cartel 147. Bludgeon 148. Globetrotter

152. Barks shrilly 154. Seizures

155. Colour

156. Looked at warily 157. Taverns

159. Company workers 160. Chilled

162. Cat’s contented sound 164. Revolve around 165. Before (poetic) 167. Restraining cord 169. Muslim faith 171. Possessed 173. Magician’s word 174. Underhand avoidance 175. Lace hole

177. Bank cash dispensers (1,1,2) 178. More emotionally dependent

179. Very strict

180. Lovers’ flower 181. Returns criminal for trial 182. Premiums 183. Roadway light

DOWN

1. Game fish

2. Plant prickle

3. Actor, ... Niro (6,2)

4. Tenant

5. Fencing weapons

6. The ... Tea Party

7. French queen, Marie ...

8. Passenger jets

9. Pause

10. Eyrie bird

11. OD

12. Director, Clint ...

13. Please and ... you

14. Investigate, ... out

16. Successors

17. Abandon

20. Monsters

21. Adjust

27. Peacock’s plumage (4,8)

29. Playboys

35. Outcome

36. Per head

38. UK racecourse

41. Fashion house, Calvin ...

43. Physics particle

44. Small earphone

46. Sullying

47. Completely wraps

51. Towards the setting sun

52. Facing extinction

55. Affectionate gesture

56. Hunter

57. Luxury auto, ... Martin

58. Joy

60. Attache

67. Fizzed

69. Perceiving

72. Mountain call

75. Army trumpet

77. Convert into screenplay

79. Cruellest

82. Saviour

83. National songs

86. Lies adjacent to

88. Sports jacket fabric

90. Farmhouse cooker

91. Enemy mole

92. Even so

93. Equipment

94. Cry of delight

95. Register

98. Burp

99. Large ball-filled cushion 102. Resolute

103. New Mexico capital, ... Fe

104. Exciting novel (4-6) 106. Perplexing

108. Porous bones condition 109. Pale lettuce variety 110. Frostiness 111. Interlopers (4-8) 114. Foregone conclusion, fait ... 116. Thatcher, the ... (4,4) 119. Be naughty (3,2) 122. Genghis ...

124. Norse god of thunder 125. Prime of life

128. Arts & ...

130. Country, ... Arabia

132. Dig

135. Flaccid

138. Senior clergyman 139. Omissions

141. Tall tale

143. Estimate (damages) 144. Logically presented 145. Sewage

149. Car distance clock 150. Aura

151. Any of two

153. Warn

158. Growths

161. Angelic being 163. Gargles & spits

166. Send (payment)

168. Awry

170. Security breaches 172. Hawaiian greeting 173. Liver spread

176. Office casual

“THE MOMENT YOU DOUBT WHETHER YOU CAN FLY, YOU CEASE FOREVER TO BE ABLE TO DO IT.”

J.M. BARRIE (PETER PAN)