MEGA CROSSWORD

ACROSS

“NO MATTER HOW OLD OR YOUNG, LOVE IS WHY WE ARE HERE.”

OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN

1. Gaining degree

6. Unknowing

10. Impractical

15. Peep

18. Modern

19. Exhausting (5,2)

20. Measured walk

22. Writer, ... Hemingway

23. Experiencing a run of luck (2,1,4)

24. Band’s tour helper

25. Meddle, dip an ... in

26. Fir tree secretion

28. Shroud city

30. Engine turn

31. Commotion

32. Child’s building blocks

33. Grate

34. Inlaid piece

35. Length of DNA

37. Cry out

39. Formerly known as

40. Boxers

42. To ... his own

45. Steps from train

48. Siamese

49. Enjoyable

50. Notes as evidence

53. The Feds (1,1,1)

54. Greek oil fruit

56. Allude

59. Grain husks

61. Crescent

62. Garbed

63. Spy group (1,1,1)

64. Burning

65. Blemish

66. Massage

68. Comic’s foil (8,3)

69. Sales agent

70. Repeatedly (2,7)

71. Spay

72. Mandible

73. Expulsions

74. In vogue, ... mode (1,2)

76. Diabetes hormone

78. Malevolent gaze (4,3)

80. Pretend

81. Hypothesises

84. Parasite

85. Evangelist, Billy ...

87. Pointlessness

89. Police HQ, New Scotland ...

92. Stew

94. Unchanged (2,2)

96. Disconnected

97. Moving (toes)

98. Amount owed

100. Patience game

101. Address to royalty (2’2)

104. Nightclubs

105. Pampered canine

107. Permanent jailbird

108. Offended

112. Listened to

113. Hawaiian guitar

115. Insect feeler

117. Fuss

118. Find out

120. Safety helmet, hard ...

121. Cloudiest

123. Tobacco item

125. Performer’s admirer

126. Manila is there

127. Marine animal, ... urchin

129. Prima donna

130. Bounder

131. Snowy peak

133. Inheritor

134. French friend

136. Accuse

137. Scandinavians

140. Desist

141. S African ruling party (1,1,1)

142. Check out

146. Hindu meditation

147. Accomplishment

148. Bestowed gift

152. Not too bad (2-2)

154. ... spumante

155. Meadow

156. Panache

157. Delivered unreturnable serve

159. Whirl

160. Brazilian music style, bossa ...

162. Standard

164. Resonant bell sound

165. Fishpond carp

167. Funeral poem

169. Mountain nest

171. ... & lass

173. Steak cut

174. Triumph

175. Rough

177. Pop artist, ... Warhol

178. Scrap

179. Unblocks

180. Unloaded weight

181. Enchanted

182. Remains

183. Ingrained (of ideas) (4-6)

DOWN

1. Look awestruck

2. Amphitheatre centre

3. Adjoining

4. Circuitous

5. Fence openings

6. Untied

7. Annoy

8. Abomination

9. Rejoices exceedingly

10. Chillier

11. Coordinate

12. Strong coffee

13. Grass leaf

14. Duelling weapon

16. Wear down

17. Nut

20. Left, ... from

21. Public (duty)

27. Misuse (3-9)

29. Landed gentry (5,7)

35. Links sportsman

36. Hitler follower

38. Meat jelly

41. Huge

43. Oriental continent

44. Vehicle’s wheel cover

46. Instilling

47. Larrikins

51. Beverage stimulant

52. Comparatively

55. Travel permit

56. Come to understand

57. Brawl

58. Restricts

60. Clue

67. Coarser

69. Harvesters

72. Moment

75. ... & pains

77. Detestable

79. Disgruntled

82. Overthrowing

83. Headway

86. Throat lump, ... apple (4’1)

88. Leered at

90. Chop

91. Banned pesticide (1,1,1)

92. Digitally encoded discs (1,2)

93. Lamb’s mother

94. Annual meeting (1,1,1)

95. Irish organisation (1,1,1)

98. River-mouth flats

99. Clown

102. Geronimo’s people

103. Middle

104. Percussion rods

106. Most frightful

108. Daredevil (5-7)

109. Fed from breast

110. Acts obsequiously

111. Ballet school (5,7)

114. Unemployable

116. ... Hemisphere

119. Mature

122. Internet junk mail

124. Capri or Wight

125. Date-stamps

128. Rise

130. Lodges (vote)

132. Black & white mammal

135. Popular garden flower

138. Snow slippages

139. Put in harm’s way

141. Current (1,1/1,1)

143. Intrusively

144. Indicate (5,3)

145. Year chart

149. Encore! (4,4)

150. Early calculators

151. Young bird of prey

153. Relative, next ... (2,3)

158. Kind of duck

161. Edible mollusc

163. Lessen

166. More senior

168. Correct (text)

170. Tore (along)

172. Stop! (nautical)

173. Bogus banknote

176. Geek