SUPER CROSS
For a chance to win one of two prizes of $250, simply solve the crossword to reveal the name of a mystery thriller film directed by our pictured star (5,2,3,4) in the coloured squares. Write this on the entry coupon.
ACROSS
1 Evil spirit (5)
4 Latin American line dance (5) 6 Squander (5)
9 Female deity (7)
12 Tally of nothing (4) 13 Magnetic compass direction (5) 14 Aircraft’s landing gear (13) 15 Groom fastidiously (5)
16 King of the beasts (4) 17 Sense of self (3) 18 Derision, contempt (5) 22 Horizontal strut on a mast (4) 24 Milky coffee (5)
25 Seer, visionary (6) 27 Condition (5)
28 Popular soft drink flavour (4) 29 Covert infiltration (9) 33 Protective boot insert (6) 35 Ceremonial table (5)
36 Snow leopard (5)
37 WWI battlefield excavations (8) 39 Government duty (3) 40 Venomous serpent (3) 41 Hybrid citrus fruit (4)
42 Wise nocturnal bird (3) 43 Casino card game (5)
45 Baby angel (6)
47 Biblical veil dancer (6)
48 At high temperature (3) 49 Flightless bird, native to South America (4) 50 Bedding and tablecloths (5) 51 Six-legged arthropod (6) 53 Give pursuit (5)
54 French term for Christmas (4) 56 Iconic actress and singer (4) 57 Pictorial representation (7) 61 Bill –, computer technology tycoon (5)
62 – Barty, tennis champ (3) 63 Ill-behaved child (4)
65 Limit or stop flow (4) 66 Teenage skin complaint (4) 67 Fragment from a block (4) 70 Ill-bred dog (3)
71 – Watts, British-born actress, raised in Australia (5) 72 Cultured dairy product (7) 76 Reflected sound (4) 77 Kitchen boss (4)
79 British police officer (5) 80 High-pitched (6) 81 Giuseppe –, opera composer (5) 82 Wide-mouthed jug (4)
83 Tennis court divider (3) 85 Begin a journey (3,3) 87 Cricket team number (6) 91 Sydney beach suburb (5) 92 Invoke legal action (3) 94 Compulsion (4)
95 Circuit of a race course (3) 96 Enthusiastic follower (3) 97 – Angus, breed of beef cattle (8)
99 Self-adhesive decoration (5)
101 Plenty, more than enough (5)
103 Male goose (6)
104 Town of Jesus’ nativity (9) 105 Snowman in Frozen (4)
106 Young female horse (5)
108 Traditional language of
Scotland and Ireland (6)
112 Additional (5)
114 Flying insect attracted
to light (4)
116 Prince –, Duke of Essex (5)
118 Mountain pass (3)
120 Summit (4)
121 Nerve, daring (5)
122 Decorative or fictitious
addition (13)
124 Severe, unrelenting (5)
125 – Boleyn, second wife of
Henry VIII (4)
126 Tied up hairstyle (7)
127 Remains of a sunken or
foundered ship (5)
128 Large black bird, eponymous to
an Edgar Allan Poe poem (5)
129 Dig (5)
DOWN
1 Prince Frederik’s nationality (6) 2 Cute aquatic mammal (5) 3 Highest point (6)
4 TV pop music show of the 1970s and ‘80s (9) 5 Horizontal crossword clues (6) 6 George Michael’s 1980s pop group (4)
7 Drag racing track (5) 8 Historical period (3) 9 Signal to go at a traffic intersection (5,5)
10 Force out (5)
11 Slightly burned (6) 15 Pacific region encompassing Hawaii (9)
19 Ensemble of eight musicians (5)
20 Innate or unadulterated (7) 21 Nonprofessional (7) 22 Ceremonial staff or rod (7) 23 Sticky tree secretion (5) 26 Strategic element (6) 30 Gather as a group (3,8) 31 American cattle farm (5) 32 Mary –, P.L. Travers’ magical nanny (7)
34 Rod connecting wheels (4) 38 Flightless Australian bird (3) 42 Canada’s capital (6)
44 and 46 down Pictured star (7,7)
47 Travel by yacht (4) 50 Shakespearean king (4) 52 Fortune-telling cards (5) 53 – Charisse, Hollywood actress and dancer (3)
55 Coastal body of water subject to tides (7)
58 2.54 cm (4)
59 Sharp inhalation (4)
60 Hairy extinct relative of the modern elephant (7)
63 Little Women character (4) 64 Slightly open, of a door (4) 67 Game featured in
The Queen’s Gambit (5) 68 Family legacy (11)
69 Cost of plane travel (7) 70 Towable mobile dwelling (7) 73 Central Asian desert (4) 74 Civilised, sophisticated (6) 75 Rugby scoring move (3) 77 Musical symbol (4)
78 Tactile reading system for the visually impaired (7) 84 Tall structure (5)
85 Couch (4)
86 Sudden image or memory of past events (9)
88 – Child, bestselling writer (3) 89 Vincent –, post-impressionist painter (3,4)
90 Subtle difference or variation (6)
91 Home of the Flintstones (7)
92 Iberian (7)
93 Kind, charitable (10)
98 Sleeping vision (5)
100 Pretender, bogus
impersonator (9)
102 Of Arctic or Antarctic regions (5)
107 Tyrannical ruler (6)