SUPER CROSS
For a chance to win one of two prizes of $250, simply solve the crossword to reveal the name of a sci-fi disaster film featuring our pictured star (3’1,4,2) in the coloured squares. Write this on the entry coupon.
ACROSS
1 Family of lions (5) 4 Workers’ organisation (5) 6 Affected by rise and fall of the seas (5) 9 Theoretical event which created the universe (3,4)
12 Leap (4)
13 Hibernian (5) 14 Disreputable marketing practice (7,6)
15 Stringed instrument (5)
16 – Eyre, Charlotte Brontë novel (4)
17 Broadcast (3)
18 Diving attack (5)
22 Stone fruit (4) 24 Additional (5)
25 – Earhart, pioneering aviator (6) 27 Male vocal register (5) 28 Church service (4) 29 Procession, as of horse-drawn vehicles (9)
33 Small insect, midge (4) 35 Ostentatious thespian (3) 37 Essential Mediterranean condiment (5,3)
38 Hit stage musical (8)
41 Small bite or pinch (3) 42 Sheltered nook along a river (4) 43 Regret (3)
44 Classical dance (6)
46 – Wilson, comedy actress (5) 47 UK currency units (6) 48 Waterproof sealant (3) 49 Tango number (3) 50 Lazy-bones, time-waster (5) 52 Sheep meat (6) 54 Heron-like bird (5)
56 Camel feature (4)
58 – Tasman, 17th century Dutch navigator (4) 59 Competitive canine gala (3,4) 62 24 Hours from –,
1964 Gene Pitney hit (5) 63 – League, group of prestigious US colleges (3)
64 Servile peasant (4)
66 Advise of potential danger (4) 67 – Pataky, model wife of Chris Hemsworth (4)
68 Tibia (4)
71 Vapour (3)
72 Genetic copy (5)
73 Early part of night (7) 75 Every one (4)
76 Citrus peel as a flavouring additive (4)
78 Island south of Naples (5) 81 – patch, period of high achievement or good fortune (6) 82 Unmown area on a golf course (5)
83 Cricket scoring unit (3) 85 Break, interval (3) 86 Haitian spiritual practice (6) 88 Pleasant cooking smell (5) 92 Small cluster of dwellings (6) 94 Friend (3)
95 Ursine creature (4)
96 Take legal action (3)
97 and 100 across Pictured actress (8,8)
102 Big –, stuffed 95 across from
Play School (3)
103 Egyptian symbol of life and
fertility (4)
104 Direction of hand rotation
on a timepiece (9)
105 Reflected sound (4)
106 Napped leather (5)
109 National song (6)
113 Japanese rice and seafood
delicacy (5)
115 Dutch cheese (4)
117 Run away to marry (5)
119 By way of (3)
121 Lightly cooked, of meat (4)
122 Picture, representation (5)
123 Discerning, insightful (13)
125 Man-made waterway (5)
126 Highest point (4)
127 More delicious (7)
128 Fastidiously groom (5)
129 Selection or judging
committee (5)
130 Scented resin among the
gifts of the Magi (5)
DOWN
1 Demure (6)
2 1970s nightclub dance music genre (5) 3 Domestic assistant (2,4) 4 Capital letters in typography (5,4)
5 Agile, sprightly (6)
6 Alice Springs’ ephemeral river (4) 7 Self-adhesive picture or design (5)
8 Alkaline compound in soap (3) 9 First meal of the day (9)
10 Plastic or metal tip on a shoelace (5) 11 Concerning the whole world (6) 15 Increase in musical intensity (9) 19 Dedicated poem (3)
20 Make on offer or suggestion (7) 21 Sweet-scented spring blossom (7)
22 Tropical American big cat, either spotted or black (7) 23 Florida city (5)
26 Capital of England (6) 30 Mealtime gathering place (6,5) 31 Football referee’s signal (7) 32 Amusement arcade game (7) 34 Magnum –, great work (4) 36 Looking glass (6)
39 Group of kangaroos (3) 40 Pleasant vocal inflection (4) 45 Theft (7)
47 Majestic display (4)
50 Minor skin irritation (4) 51 Snapshot (5)
53 Sidney –, artist and author (5) 55 Character such as Sesame Street’s Oscar (6)
57 The – Falcon, film noir classic (7) 60 Planted, as crop seed (4) 61 Charming and engaging (7) 64 Minor chess piece (4)
65 One of a cricket team’s first batters (6)
68 Soak in liquid (5)
69 Having no physical form (11) 70 Trifling, insignificant (5) 71 High-ranking army officer (7) 74 Engrave with acid (4) 76 Nothing, zilch (4)
77 String of small decorative pennants or flags (7) 79 Winnie the Pooh’s porcine companion (6) 80 Suddenly and violently collapse inward (7)
84 Indian flatbread (4) 86 International travel permit (4) 87 Goal, desired outcome (9) 89 Start of a horserace (3)
90 Old Testament Hebrew patriarch (7)
91 Sports coat or blazer (6)
93 Educational institution (7)
94 Take for granted (7)
98 Daily journal of record (9)
99 Publish, put out (5)
101 Practice performance (9)
107 Dynamic –, Batman and Robin (3) 108 Turn to bone (6)
110 Involuntary glottal spasm (6) 111 Shiny metallic finish on
car parts (6)
112 Affluence (6) 114 Mass of insects (5)
116 iphone and Mac computer
company (5) 118 Verdant, lush with foliage (5) 120 Computer screen symbol (4) 124 Hip-hop vocal genre (3)