$100 Challenge

HOW YOU CAN WIN

We dare you to take the $100 Challenge and try to solve this crossword. When you have finished, the letters in the lilac squares, reading from left to right and top to bottom, will reveal a word. Write this word only on the entry coupon.

ACROSS

1 Scottish dish (6) 5 Chantilly fabric (4) 9 Suspect's defence (5) 10 Pleasing smell (5) 11 Dressmaker's insert (6)

13 Natural talent (4) 15 --- Murray, UK tennis ace (4)

16 Old, aged (4,2,3,5) 20 Resound (4)

22 Most pleasant (6) 24 Wear away (5) 25 As tight as ---, taut (1,4) 27 December holiday (9) 28 Treasure box (5) 30 Direct, guide (5) 31 Smart (6)

33 Mother's sister (4) 35 On-the-job training (14) 39 Platter (4)

41 Dutch cheese (4) 42 Hotel California band (6)

45 Hospital worker (5) 46 Additional (5) 47 Fibber (4)

48 Grassy field (6)

DOWN

1 Witch (3)

2 Vapour (3)

3 Glossy material (5)

4 Small measure of salt (5) 5 Dark's opposite (5)

6 Have a meal (3) 7 Municipality (4)

8 One born in the late 1940s or 1950s (4,6) 12 Onto (4) 14 Frozen dew (5)

15 In the lead (5)

17 Fly or ant, eg (6) 18 Climbing plant's shoot (7) 19 And so on (abbrev) (3) 21 Gown (4)

23 Japanese soldier (7) 24 Bewitching (10)

25 Believe without proof (6) 26 Regretted (4)

29 Peanut sauce (5) 31 God of love (5)

32 Small lorry (3)

34 Plunge into water (4) 36 --- Fudd, Bugs Bunny's archenemy (5) 37 Delicious (5)

38 Milk fat (5)

40 Askew, bent (4)

41 Long fish (3)

43 Jar top (3)

44 Female pig (3)