Win! $ 200,000 MONSTER CROSS
HOW TO WIN... The theme of this Monstercross is orange, and all the highlighted picture clues refer to this topic.When you have lled in the puzzle, the letters in the lilac squares, reading left to right and top to bottom, will spell an answer related to the puzzle theme. Write this answer on the entry coupon. ACROSS
1 Pop in (5)
4 Desert plant (6)
8 Eerie sense that something has happened before (4,2) 11 Takes a risk (5) 14 Japanese poem (5) 15 Headwear worn by a pirate (7)
16 Number of sides on a pentagon (4) 18 Fairytale monster (4) 20 Unfortunate (7) 21 Simmers slowly (5)
22 Tin or cobalt, eg (5) 23 Period of rule (5) 24 Turbulent (5)
26 Small citrus fruit in box A (8)
28 Opening, rst (9) 32 Country house, mansion (7)
33 Muhammad ---, US boxer (3) 34 Afterwards (5)
35 Highest male voice (5) 36 --- and proper, demure (4)
38 Talking point, subject of discussion (5) 42 Reeded instrument (4) 44 Horse’s gait (4)
45 --- Maria, coffeeavoured liqueur (3) 46 Fourth month (5) 47 Worry, panic (4)
48 Team (4)
49 Function, party (5)
50 --- West, actress (3) 51 Movie (4)
53 Misplace (4)
55 Regions, areas (9) 58 Award (coll.) (4) 65 English breakfast or oolong, eg (3)
66 Kyiv’s nation (7) 67 Vibrate, shudder (11) 69 Fast, speedy (5) 70 Orange is the New ---, television series (5)
71 Hit a raw ---, bring attention to a sensitive matter (5) 72 Council taxes (5) 73 Accomplishment (11) 74 Most of the time (7) 75 Period, age (3)
77 Print error (4)
79 Long-armed ape in box B (9)
84 Bean curd (4) 85 Uncommon (4)
86 Self image (3)
87 Book of maps (5)
88 Eye amorously (4)
90 Ship’s prison (4)
91 French goodbye (5)
92 --- Brynner, actor (3)
93 Woe is me! (4)
95 Wacky, clownish (4) 96 Greeting (5)
97 Distant (4)
103 --- Atkinson, star of
Blackadder and
Mr Bean (5)
105 Paci c or Indian, eg (5) 106 Not switched on (3) 108 Decorum (7)
110 Change the shape or appearance of (9)
112 Bird of ---, ower in box C (8)
114 Moral code (5) 115 Bedding item worn as a ghost costume (5) 116 Rack your brain (5) 118 Diaper (5)
120 One who does not believe in a god (7)
121 Prank, merry adventure (4)
124 Pleased (4)
125 Southeast Asian country (7)
126 Way in (5)
127 Additional, bonus (5) 128 Second-incommand (6)
129 Filet ---, cut of beef (6) 130 Arriving after the school bell (5)
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1 Aura, feelings (5) 2 Evening event in box D (6)
3 Convert from one language to another (9) 4 Rift, gorge (5)
5 Workplace canteen (9) 6 Ship’s pronoun (3) 7 Infant’s protective garment (3)
8 Performing couple (3) 9 The ‘A’ in USA (7)
10 Driver’s 180 (1-4) 11 Intentional (10)
12 Fruit also known as cantaloupe (9) 13 Bashfully (5)
17 Orange variety that shares its name with a European city (8)
19 Lasagne-loving cat in box E (8)
25 Pilot’s compartment (7) 27 Medication (4)
29 Horror lm feature (4) 30 Snake (7)
31 Orange- owered garden plant (8) 37 Recycled tyre (7)
38 Tours, voyages (7)
39 Large serving plate (7) 40 Made of porcelain (7) 41 Retailers, vendors (7) 43 Filled tortilla wrap (7) 48 Banana ---, ice cream dessert (5)
52 Fridge ornaments (7) 54 Penelope Cruz and Rafael Nadal’s nationality (7)
56 Winter Olympian (3,6) 57 Large, hairy spider (9) 59 Stacked sleeping arrangement (4,3) 60 Conundrum,
brainteaser (7)
61 Obsessively
focused on (7)
62 Late, as a library book (7)
63 For a short period (7) 64 Double-crosses (7) 68 Decorative style of the 1920s (3,4)
69 One fourth (7) 76 Entertain (5) 78 Allotment, share (7) 79 Perform surgery (7) 80 Get rid of, ban (7) 81 Slow, step by step (7) 82 Hunter’s cry (5-2) 83 Snuggled (7)
89 Aquarium favourite in box F (8)
90 Odd, unusually strange (7)
94 Wandered off (7) 98 Southernmost continent (10)
99 Head honcho (4) 100 Cartoon artist (8) 101 Medical institution (8) 102 In the middle of (4)
104 Traf c cone in box G (coll.) (5’1,3) 107 Taboo (9)
109 Cleanse of germs (9) 111 Coincide partially (7) 113 Tin- ---, kitchen device (6)
114 Delete (5)
115 Satis ed (5)
117 --- Rudd, former Australian PM (5) 119 Tasty, delicious (5) 122 Lock opener (3) 123 Convenient cash dispenser (1,1,1)
124 Fitness room (3)