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ACROSS
1 Hawaiian greeting (5)
4 Tavern in box A (6) 8 Battered brekkie cake from Belgium (6) 11 Blossom part (5)
14 Silly, absurd (5)
15 Hair cleaner (7) 16 Reveal a secret, spill the beans (4)
18 --- Knievel, stuntman (4) 20 Financial supporter (7) 21 Lively dance (5)
22 After the second (5) 23 Coral island (5)
24 Item of crockery (5) 26 Brontosaurus or triceratops, eg (8) 28 Reciprocates (9) 32 Ten-sided figure (7) 33 Golf peg (3)
34 Not suitable (5)
35 Giraffe relative (5) 36 Be bereft of (4) 38 Zeppelin (5)
42 Closed (4)
44 Ostrich relative (4) 45 Australian coat-ofarms bird (3)
46 Cook in an oven (5) 47 Relish, gusto (4) 48 Church song (4) 49 Suffuse with colour (5) 50 Self importance (3) 51 Happy cat noise (4) 53 Auction offerings (4) 55 Tables and chairs (9) 58 Ukraine's capital (4)
65 --- Jones, singer (3) 66 Physically inert drug (7) 67 Percussive desert
serpent in box B (11) 69 Marsh bird (5)
70 Children's kind of book (3-2) 71 Stadium (5) 72 A Passage to ---, Judy Davis film (5)
73 Holland (11) 74 Immediate (7)
75 --- chi, exercise style (3) 77 Great in size or importance (4) 79 Scottish capital (9) 84 Jab, poke (4) 85 Lighting gas (4) 86 Pint-sized demon (3) 87 Freshen, fix up (5) 88 Cajole, persuade (4) 90 Very light brown (4) 91 Magazine edition (5) 92 Kimono belt (3) 93 Unable to hear (4) 95 Beef cut (4)
96 --- DeGeneres, US talk show host (5)
97 Travel permit (4)
103 Town ---, public announcer (5) 105 As stated above (5) 106 Mayday call (1,1,1) 108 Antique (7) 110 Dictionary of synonyms (9) 112 Distinctive cattle
breed in box C (8) 114 --- noir, wine variety (5)
115 Figure of speech (5)
116 Name, label (5)
118 Dock, pier (5)
120 Phoenix's state (7)
121 Poet (4)
124 Betting rates (4)
125 Openly, obviously (7)
126 Fourth month (5)
127 Held the deed to (5)
128 Musterer in box D (6) 129 Linger, dillydally (6)
130 Not a winner (5)
DOWN
1 The Tortoise and the
Hare storyteller (5) 2 Prophet (6) 3 Materialising, coming into view (9)
4 Rugby league or water polo, eg (5)
5 Oil, grease (9)
6 Pen tip (3)
7 Sixth scale note (3) 8 Tiny, small (3) 9 Indirect effects of a decision or event (7)
10 Painter's stand (5)
11 Seeker of gold in
box E (10)
12 Body of water between Australia and New Zealand (6,3)
13 Big (5)
17 Hans Christian ---, writer of fairy tales (8)
19 --- Putin, Russian President (8)
25 Violin player (7)
27 Pig sound (4)
29 --- Bader Ginsburg, prominent US Supreme Court justice (4) 30 Infatuated with, moonstruck (7)
31 Frozen confection (3,5)
37 Law enforcer that wears the badge in box F (7) 38 Whale fat (7)
39 Citizen of Tel Aviv (7) 40 Flat-topped mountain, tableland (7)
41 Bumpy road hazard (7) 43 Greek cheese (7) 48 Custom, practice (5) 52 Resort region in the south of France (7) 54 Misconduct mark, such as for a driving offence (7)
56 With no objection (9) 57 Scanning over text once more (2-7) 59 Hunting dog breed (7) 60 Decorated post around which traditional springtime revellers dance (7)
61 Reply in words (7) 62 One with no faith (7) 63 Annual publication (7) 64 Lightweight shortsleeved tops (1-6) 68 Official inspector who examines ledgers (7) 69 Paper and pencil word guessing game (7) 76 Alphabetical list (5) 78 Delta ---, Aussie actress and singer (7)
79 Healing tonics (7) 80 Position from which there is no escape (7) 81 Gym weight (7)
82 Brief summary (3-4) 83 Peddling (7)
89 Short joke (3-5) 90 Auricular pain (7)
94 Wild with excitement, frenzied (7)
98 The clergy (10)
99 Dame --- Everage, Barry Humphries persona (4)
100 Cobweb filament (8) 101 Cut off, remote (8) 102 Pulverised potato (4) 104 Objective (9) 107 Sterilised (9) 109 Sideways handspring (9)
111 Arc in the sky (7)
113 Prickly plant in
box G (6)
114 Keyboard instrument (5)
115 Sir --- Newton, British physicist (5)
117 Wear away (5) 119 Lobby (5)
122 Time of sunshine (3) 123 Snoop (3)
124 Senior (3)