SUPER CROSS

For a chance to win one of two prizes of $250, simply solve the crossword to reveal the name of a drama TV series featuring our pictured star (4,7) in the coloured squares. Write this on the entry coupon.

ACROSS

1 Cute aquatic mammal (5) 4 Heavy goods vehicle (5) 6 Thai canal (5) 9 Barber’s service (7) 12 Italian salutation (4) 13 Illusionist’s artifice (5) 14 At right angles to horizontal (13) 16 Sister in a holy order (3) 17 In such a way (4) 18 Satisfies requirements (5) 19 Burke’s expeditionary partner (5) 23 – Pitt, actor (4) 25 Rowing blade (3) 26 Romeo and Juliet town (6) 28 Covered canoe (5) 29 Liveliness, vitality (4) 30 Ancient times (9) 33 Eponymous Brenda Blethyn detective character (4) 35 Possesses (3) 37 Prompt, on time (8) 38 Pertinent (8) 41 – Martin, former TV journalist and talk-show host (3) 42 Indonesian resort island (4) 43 Moral principles (6) 44 Exultant happiness (3) 45 Ceremonial table or platform (5) 46 Span (6) 47 Two-up paddle (3) 49 113 across’ youngest daughter (3) 50 Fairytale monsters (5) 51 High-kicking Moulin Parisian cabaret dance (6) 53 Force out (5) 55 Christopher Robin’s bear (4) 57 Sarah Snook’s Succession character (4) 58 Disreputable, impoverished urban district (4,3) 61 Slightly wet (5) 62 Nickname of US President Eisenhower (3) 63 Powerful, electric guitarbased popular music genre (4) 65 Stylish (4) 66 Springfield school bus driver (4) 67 Ballet position with knees turned out and bent (4) 70 Winter malady (3) 71 Artisan working with metal (5) 72 African grassland (7) 74 Norway’s capital (4) 75 Major Indonesian island (4) 78 Unclad (5) 81 Rwanda’s capital (6) 82 Obvious, unconcealed (5) 83 – Kernaghan, country musician (3) 84 – Poehler, comedy actress (3) 85 and 87 across Pictured actress (6) 87 see 85 across (5) 91 – Thurman, actress (3) 93 Gambling venue (6) 94 – Wilson, actor (4) 95 55 across’ avian friend (3) 96 Strong Italian-style coffee (8) 99 Mexican seaside resort city (8) 101 Part of a curve (3) 102 Weaving frame (4) 103 Deliberately, by design (2,7) 105 Nobleman’s title (4) 106 Decoratively panelled bed covering (5) 109 Red gemstone (6) 113 Lleyton Hewitt’s wife (3) 114 Bossy Peanuts character (4) 116 Undersea echolocation system (5) 117 Hepatic organ (5) 119 Precisely accurate (5) 120 Snooker rod (3) 121 Exaggeration (13) 123 Fanciful impulse (4) 124 Turkish alcoholic spirit (4) 125 Japanese seafood delicacy (7) 126 Alternate name for jack in playing cards (5) 127 Habitually late (5) 128 Angry, vexed (5)

DOWN

1 Canada’s capital (6) 2 Perform beyond expected level (5) 3 High-ranking clergyman (6) 4 Of the utmost confidentiality (3-6) 5 Custodian (6)

6 New – on the Block, 1980s boy-band (4) 7 Academy Award statuette (5) 8 Hair-setting product (3) 9 Mouth-organ (9) 10 Queen –, Camilla’s title (7) 11 Guaranteed period of employment (6) 15 Remove ephemera from one’s environment (9) 20 Meadow (3)

21 Skilled marksman or woman (12) 22 Guacamole fruit (7) 23 Munich’s region in southeast Germany (7) 24 Terpsichorean art (5)

27 At an unspecified time (3,3)

31 Slight or stifled laugh (7) 32 Mythical one-horned horse (7)

34 Funeral bonfire (4) 36 Garssland of central Asian Russia (6) 39 Permit (3) 40 Ill-tempered or violent woman (6)

41 Italian chicory (9) 46 Baroque composer (4) 48 Take for granted (6) 52 – Jokavich, tennis champ (5)

54 Dr –, Mr Hyde’s alter-ego (6) 55 American mountain lion (4) 56 Inauspicious, threatening (7) 59 Gaming cubes (4) 60 – Lineman, 1968 Glen Campbell hit (7) 63 – Parks, US civil rights activist (4) 64 Opportunity (6) 67 Cheap wine (5) 68 Contrary to rules of reason (9) 69 Command to stop a horse (4) 70 Worn channel (6) 73 Performer with a ‘talking’ doll sidedekick (13) 75 Jack’s hill-climbing partner (4) 76 TV consumer (6) 77 Chaotic failure (7) 79 Maori greeting (3,3) 80 Maritime vessel maintenance facility (7) 85 Castle in chess (4) 86 Office-holder in a large corporation (9) 88 – and buts, prevarications (3) 89 Scientific study of animals (7) 90 Plush, velvet-like fabric (6) 92 Shakespeare’s Scottish play (7) 97 Popular, spicy pizza sausage (9) 98 Artist’s stand (5) 100 Decorative timber flooring (9) 104 Centre of an atom (7) 107 Midday repast (5) 108 Beaded counting frame (6) 110 Most recent (6) 111 Largest of the United States (6) 112 Small morsels of food, particularly baked goods (6) 115 – Georgiadis, TV gardening presenter (5) 118 – Bush, Running Up That Hill singer (4) 122 Large deer (3) 123 Armed conflict (3)