MEGA CROSSWORD

“YOU DON’T GET OLDER, YOU GET BETTER.” SHIRLEY BASSEY

ACROSS

1. Confined to home

6. Barber’s trim

10. Liberate

15. Kuwaiti ruler

18. German measles

19. Reprocess

20. Drink from teat

22. Hand cream

23. Straighten again

24. Growls menacingly

25. Travelling salesman

26. Applauds

28. Koran religion

30. Sheltered side

31. Cheap wine

32. Devil’s abode

33. Logically thought-out

34. Cambodia’s tourism hub, ... Penh

35. Royal stamp

37. Hospital flooring

39. International Business Machines Corporation (1,1,1)

40. Cain & ...

42. Acorn trees

45. Fumed

48. Burial vault

49. Female reproductive cell

50. Sieving

53. Gratuity

54. Fork spike

56. Wrote with keyboard

59. Bangkok natives

61. Worshipped figure

62. UK princess

63. Sticky coal by-product

64. Fish, manta ...

65. Melt

66. Filled pastry

68. Refuges

69. Darjeeling crop

70. Vermin-catching device

71. Grandeur

72. Non-government body (1,1,1)

73. Enhances

74. Unit of resistance

76. Baked pasta dish

78. Sets off

80. Sudden cold

81. Returns to former state

84. North African nation

85. Alpine calls

87. Shipboard rebellion

89. Beach grains

92. Connective tissues

94. Himalayan monster

96. Unravel

97. Large boa

98. Car brand

100. Wooed with songs

101. Capsize, ... over

104. Scuttlebutt

105. Festival

107. Fad

108. Revitalised oneself, ... up

112. Action words

113. Not anywhere

115. Continent, South ...

117. Pigpen

118. TV news compere

120. Global navigation facility

(1,1,1)

121. Tail-ender

123. Sprout

125. Le or La in French

126. Stole ideas

127. Genetic blueprint for life

(1,1,1)

129. Agitate

130. Wow!

131. Dangerous sea current

133. In debt, in ...

134. Yogurt container

136. Loafs

137. Informal language

140. Vapour

141. Common pet

142. Department head

146. Immediately following

147. Alcohol

148. General pardon

152. Sponges

154. Auld Lang ...

155. Wedding promise (1,2)

156. Zilch

157. Glimpse

159. Chirp

160. Male deer

162. Roman garment

164. Shaving cuts

165. Canadian whiskey

167. Actress, ... Witherspoon

169. False ID

171. Smidgen

173. Pebbles

174. Rogues

175. Designer, ... Cardin

177. Terminate

178. Motivate

179. Health inspector’s concern

180. Bit the dust

181. Serving (7,3)

182. Riled

183. Tediously

DOWN

1. Cad

2. Merge

3. Exhausted (5,3)

4. Undo (belt)

5. River-mouth flats

6. Guttural

7. Faultlessly

8. Use cigarettes nonstop (5-5)

9. Go to bed (4,2)

10. Shine

11. Foregone conclusion, fait ...

12. Horse colour

13. Blue shade

14. Moose

16. Dot/dash code

17. Wavelet

20. Pale pink

21. Desk worker

27. Snapshot taker

29. Expert sewers

35. Lampooned (4,2)

36. Right away (1,1,1,1)

38. Nitwit

41. University composition

43. Very eager

44. Oscar winner, ... Bullock

46. At a future date

47. Despairing

51. Hook

52. Notoriously

55. Apollo Program agency

56. Nailing down

57. Pocket

58. Obscures

60. Clasp

67. Passion

69. Worry

72. Narrow straits

75. Florida resort city

77. Explosive material

79. Treat cruelly

82. Harvesters

83. Percolation

86. Seems to pass slowly

88. Holy images

90. Fashionable, ... mode (1,2)

91. Add soundtrack

92. Musical, ... Miserables

93. Low-spirited

94. Chatter

95. Connection

98. Fires

99. Scientifically examine

102. Made angry

103. Inventories

104. Age difference, ... gap

106. Snow slippages

108. Nerve

109. Imprisons

110. Deadening

111. Red light (6,6)

114. Placing bet

116. Celt

119. 44th US President, Barack ...

122. Duelling weapon

124. Revise (text)

125. Named

128. Missing

130. Kudos

132. Hickory nut

135. Grenade

138. Going to law

139. Arbitrator

141. Coral banks

143. Climb

144. Intense dislike

145. Strong coffee

149. Gents’ apparel

150. Jailbreakers

151. Assessed

153. Major blood vessel

158. Soldiers’ chaplain

161. Humanitarian, Mother ...

163. Slashed

166. Egg yellows

168. Eject

170. Gold bar

172. Emerge

173. Lean-to

176. Whirlpool