MEGA CROSSWORD “NO-ONE EVER MADE A DIFFERENCE BY BEING LIKE EVERYONE ELSE.” P.T. BARNUM

ACROSS

1. Without boss

6. Secret collector 10. Calmly

15. Performs slalom 18. Nonsense

19. Soviet force (3,4) 20. Eve’s mate

22. Capital of Zimbabwe 23. Utilise (equipment) 24. Cable supports

25. For now, pro ...

26. Door fastener 28. Trades, buys & ... 30. Final result, ... product 31. Inuit jacket

32. Highs & ...

33. Shots of rum 34. Struggler

35. Touch

37. Court order, decree ... 39. HM, ... Majesty 40. London underground 42. Chore

45. Perceives 48. Hopping parasite 49. Killer whale 50. Weirdness 53. Vagabond 54. Rubbish

56. Cola brand

59. Abated

61. Lump of turf

62. As a gamble, on ... 63. Cantonese lunch, yum ... 64. Computer modifying key 65. Iran’s neighbour 66. Video format (1,1,1) 68. Ask too little

69. Begin to sprout 70. Rusting 71. Promenade

72. World Service broadcaster (1,1,1)

73. Outing

74. Battery size (1,1,1) 76. Crosser 78. Submarine weapon 80. Outlaid

81. Dodges 84. Ceremonially attired 85. Obliterates 87. Embassy aides 89. Fencer’s headgear 92. Speculating 94. Matures

96. Race to find nuggets (4,4) 97. Scrutinised 98. Commoner 100. Having 8 angles 101. Retrench (staff) 104. Rib-eyes 105. Hands-on-hips position 107. Gem weight unit 108. Incense rod (4,5) 112. Artist, ... Picasso 113. Italian cheese style 115. Luxuriate 117. Crooner, ... King Cole 118. Oscar winner, Jack ... 120. Actors Gibson or Brooks 121. Ad-lib

123. Dry

125. Type of plastic (1,1,1) 126. Cruel

127. Metal pen-point

129. ... shui

130. Conifer tree

131. Blood hue

133. Cosy corner

134. Baby’s apron

136. Sense of the absurd 137. Accomplishments 140. Small biting insects 141. Lean-to 142. Materialised

146. Water 147. Heathland 148. Burrowing mammals 152. Guardianship 154. Letters & parcels

155. Gist (of story) 156. Throw of the coin 157. Interrupting cough 159. Musty

160. Comic, ... Idle

162. Fully (awake) 164. Pottery fragment 165. Expression of disgust 167. Mouthwash 169. Kinsman

171. No ... or buts 173. Outcasts

174. Lodges request (for job) 175. Costlier 177. Miscalculates 178. Animosity (3,4) 179. Collaborates (with) (5,2) 180. Luxurious 181. Unselfishly 182. Clipped (sheep) 183. Astrologer’s diagrams

DOWN

1. Lavish

2. Burning out of control 3. Practise 4. Black-skinned vegetable 5. Ray (of light) 6. Santa’s laugh (2,2,2) 7. Man’s cologne

8. Dire

9. Scarcest

10. Bike footrest

11. Taken into custody 12. Nile Delta inhabitant 13. Enticed (3,2) 14. Starchy tubers 16. Actress, ... Holmes 17. Promotional giveaway 20. Forewarns 21. Chilean ranges 27. Tense climaxes 29. Realtors (6,6) 35. Outlaw

36. Dutch cheese 38. Physicist, ... Newton 41. Surge

43. In present condition (2,2) 44. Deluded (oneself)

46. Set of three copies 47. Easily passed on (illness) 51. Commit

52. Moving stairways 55. Deliberately avoid 56. Penetrated 57. Harness-racing horse 58. Envision

60. Pub drinks 67. Stevedores

69. Large ball-filled cushion 72. Bust

75. Ethiopia’s ... Ababa 77. Frozen cubes container (3,6)

79. Pillaged 82. Lengthways

83. Make weary (4,3) 86. Confuse

88. Poppy drug 90. Trouble

91. CIA foe (1,1,1) 92. Which person? 93. Transparent toothpaste 94. TV promotions

95. And so forth 98. Dessert, ... pie 99. Wayward

102. Egg white

103. Grassy hill 104. Disrobing dance 106. Musical drama venue (5,5) 108. New Year bargain time (7,5) 109. Broke from group 110. Indemnifies 111. Preschool 114. Obstructing 116. Authorised 119. Excessively fat 122. Narrow

124. Garden of Creation

125. Not private

128. Lowest depth 130. Actress, Jane ...

132. Paints roughly

135. Burial platform 138. Liberate

139. Food lift (4,6) 141. Sudden silence 143. Interlocks

144. Edge of highway 145. Precious stones 149. Valuer

150. Parents’ dads 151. Steel-belted tyre 153. Yellow shade

158. East England county 161. Dominions

163. Cleaned house

166. 4th month 168. Deafening 170. Disagree

172. Dowdy woman 173. Meadows

176. Guns (engine)