MEGA CROSSWORD

“A SINGLE ACT OF KINDNESS THROWS OUT ROOTS IN ALL DIRECTIONS, AND THE ROOTS SPRING UP AND MAKE NEW TREES.” AMELIA EARHART

ACROSS

1. Cracked code

6. Salad plant

10. Attainable

15. Mutilate

18. Etna is one

19. Foyers

20. Apple variety

22. Latterly (2,4)

23. Not strict

24. Actress, Charlize ...

25. Actor, ... Danson

26. Fragment

28. Seance board

30. Moscow’s ... Square

31. Minute particles

32. Wood-shaping tool

33. Actress, Goldie ...

34. Athlete’s foot

35. Compress

37. Dwindles

39. Top credit rating (1,1,1)

40. Existence

42. Smaller amount

45. Doctor’s ... manner

48. Big slab

49. Female opera singer

50. Attached items

53. Moisten

54. 007 star, Roger ...

56. Multiplies

59. Shady plants

61. Jabber

62. Slugs

63. Toupee

64. Raises (the ante)

65. Louvre part

66. Daub

68. Take apart

69. Chocolate ... cake

70. Migrates

71. Stone fruit

72. How come?

73. Blackjack (6-3)

74. Missing in action (1,1,1)

76. Unsurpassed (record) (3-4)

78. Blue-eyed cat

80. LP material

81. Saviours

84. Parasite

85. Tribal healer

87. DJ

89. Gloomy

92. Pleasant tasting

94. Expended, ... up

96. Regard as perfect

97. Villain

98. Epidermis

100. Of state affairs

101. Western pact

104. Racial

105. Oscar winner, ... Bullock

107. Scrub

108. Barb-tailed fish

112. Rough plan

113. Jockey’s shout (5-2)

115. Inward-looking

117. Non-government body

(1,1,1)

118. To the extent that (2,2,3,2)

120. City, ... Francisco

121. Interpretation (of song)

123. Provisional

125. Baseballer, ... DiMaggio

126. Elegantly attired (4-7)

127. Bubbling bath

129. Kilometres per hour (1,1,1,1)

130. Mildly sweet (champagne)

131. Umpire

133. Hook, ... & sinker

134. Elected representatives (1,2)

136. Rubbish

137. Seasons (dish)

140. Derogatory

141. Food additive (1,1,1)

142. Munitions depot

146. Rhyme, Mary Had a Little

...

147. Witnessed

148. Maltreats

152. Scarce

154. Calf flesh

155. Decay

156. Leash

157. Honey liquor

159. Emirate, Abu ...

160. US/Canadian lake

162. Insect stage

164. France’s Joan ... (2,3)

165. Fah, ..., lah

167. Dote on

169. Terrible

171. Cardiac monitor (1,1,1)

173. Senor & ...

174. Metal gratings

175. Recited, ... off

177. Bide time

178. Fiddle with thumbs

179. Crooner, Frank ...

180. Grain pit

181. Sensible (2-8)

182. Ringlets

183. Clamorously

DOWN

1. Trial showing

2. Santiago is there

3. Deprived people (4-4)

4. Fell ill again

5. Curtain

6. Lost heat

7. Polar vessel

8. Dwarf

9. Egg-yolk shade

10. Synagogue scholar

11. Lively

12. Example

13. Trumpet loudly

14. Actor, ... McGregor

16. Following

17. French Mrs

20. US president, ... Ford

21. Mineral veins

27. Till (4,8)

29. Illegitimacy

35. Bragged

36. Touch at one end

38. Under

41. Carnivals

43. Effortless

44. Laid (claim)

46. Expulsions

47. Eternal being

51. Deter

52. Adversely

55. Car trip

56. Green light (2-5)

57. Commencement

58. Anybody

60. Type of sword

67. Actor, Yul ...

69. Club participants

72. Gestured

75. Felt sore

77. Incapability

79. Yankees

82. Avoidance

83. Brawnier

86. Swamped

88. Wearied

90. Noah’s ...

91. Relatives

92. Verve

93. Conger

94. Ashes jar

95. Gobble

98. Circular tray, lazy ...

99. Steel ingredient (4,3)

102. Accumulates

103. Regularly

104. Science of workplace design

106. Skilfulness

108. Horror story (5-7)

109. Sneaker linings

110. Apprehends (criminal)

111. Husband’s siblings (7-2-3)

114. Spy writer, Len ...

116. Handbills

119. Untamed

122. Is indebted to

124. Paradise garden

125. Jersey

128. Sharply bent

130. Marten fur

132. Land, terra ...

135. Disfigurement

138. Shorten

139. Plane testers (4,6)

141. Contemplate

143. Extremely warm (3-3) 144. Proceeds (from)

145. Flight industry

149. Fanatical admirer

150. Brave

151. Comperes

153. Mystified, all ... (2,3) 158. Guardian spirit

161. Stand-in monarch

163. Goes by

166. Pungent bulb

168. An ... but a goodie

170. Monetary penalties

172. Director, ... Eastwood 173. Adult cygnet

176. Drowsy