The Colossus

ACROSS

2. Tourists

7. Library patrons

11. News scoops

17. Cab

18. Deplete, – up

19. IVF cells

20. Mark as correct 21. Scrutinises

22. Not as wide

23. Drink container (5,6) 26. Yawn

28. Quandary

29. Lassos

31. Angler’s lure

34. Drover, jackaroo 36. Shrill barks

39. Ships’ spines 41. Wedding paper shower

43. Circular bread rolls 46. Lessened, – the pain 47. Realities

49. Cavalry weapons 51. Rissole

52. Fugitives

53. Funeral car

54. Bend down

55. Ballet skirt

56. Remodels

61. Canine battle 64. Behaves

65. US police agency (1,1,1)

66. Kennedy Space Center location,

Cape –

67. Japanese money unit 69. Undivided

71. Chalices

74. Fled

76. Foe

78. Convent dweller 79. Insect antennae 81. Perish

83. Give speech 84. Caribbean republic 86. Dependent on drugs 89. Electrical rating 90. Nauseates

93. Mexican dish, chilli con –

94. Grow molars 97. Slumped

100. Scientist, – Newton 101. Nazi secret police 103. Adjudicate, referee 106. Decipherable 108. Shrewder

109. Takes a whiff 110. Involuntary, – response

111. Lodge deeply 112. Reworked

113. Go aboard, get – 115. Retail goods

118. Calamity

121. Inflatable mattress 124. In unison (2,3)

128. Nairobi is there 129. Synagogue minister 130. Tendency to break 134. Number in a trio 135. Trivial, petty

136. French farewell 137. Defence excuse 138. Goat’s cry

139. Beginning, – of illness 140. Discretion

143. Classical musical drama

144. Viper, puff –

147. Moisten while roasting

150. Cambodia’s neighbour 151. Roller-shaped

155. Doubt

157. Movie, The Way We –

158. Lords, noblemen 159. Logo sticker

162. Knotted jumble

164. Not liable, – from 167. Military blockade 168. Rowdiest

169. Bolster

172. Attack

173. Summarise

174. Person suffering for faith

177. Likeliest to win (4-2) 180. Downy duck

181. Wooden box (3,5) 183. Mythical horned horse

184. Disillusions (4,4) 186. Confess (3,2)

187. Bona fide

188. Common virus

191. Table support

195. Gene acid (1,1,1) 197. Michaelmas daisy 198. Favourably influence 200. Sets fire to

202. Big

203. China’s – Zedong 205. Removes jockey’s seat

206. Bitingly cold

208. Jaunty rhythm

209. Took clothes off line 212. Pony competition 215. Peace Prize city 217. Malaysia’s – Lumpur 220. Small lamb chop 222. Anytime

224. Anxiety, tension 226. Strappy shoe 228. Reached the highest point 229. Oyster treasure 230. Rogue 232. Hoisted 235. Inventories 236. Positioned 238. Porgy & Bess composer, George – 241. Middling (2-2) 242. Jabber, chatter 243. Requested from menu

244. Princess Royal 246. Annoying, irritating 252. Trade, swap

253. Indian capital (3,5) 254. Dish, soup – 255. Et cetera (abbrev) 256. Song, We – Family

257. Docile

258. Blended family sibling

259. Male relatives 260. Vending machines

DOWN

1. Grubs

2. Layered

3. Biblical first man 4. Eradicates

5. Group of performers 6. Underground tunnel 7. Relax

8. Slightly open

9. World fair

10. Squishy

11. Artists’ tripods 12. Opposite, – to popular belief 13. Scraping with fingernails

14. Pledges

15. Disco light

16. Find innocent 24. Banishes child from school

25. Trussed (4,2) 26. Deserted village (5,4) 27. Trial period

28. Sponge lightly 30. Distress signal (1,1,1) 32. Drew, – attention 33. Striped brown gem (5’1,3)

35. They, he and – 37. Dwindles

38. Utah’s state capital, – – City (4,4)

39. Lamp fuel

40. Frond

42. Fe, –, fo, fum! 44. US television award 45. Most rational

47. Claws

48. American air force (1,1,1,1) 50. Belgrade native 53. Loathe

57. 80th

58. Medicine pill

59. Pollen allergy (3,5) 60. Severest

62. Urges into motion 63. Fluid-operated

65. Toll, charge

68. Mesh

70. Budapest citizens 72. Wear away

73. Clever

74. Just managing, – out a living

75. Scold

77. Wrongly

80. Coordinates, – and longitude

82. Sycophant (6-2)

85. Put together

87. Adult fawn

88. Prince Harry’s old school

91. Lazy, bone –

92. Ceramic slab 95. Pixie-like

96. More impetuous 98. Carbonates

99. Presents

102. Mental health doctors 104. Expose

105. Powered by battery or mains (1,1/1,1) 107. Blackmailers

113. Ground porridge flakes

114. Whirlwind

116. Diplomats’ base 117. Esteemed

119. Littlest

120. Gather, – crops 122. Ardent

123. Acorn bearer (3,4) 125. Blunder

126. Cram, – in

127. Answer

128. Snack, doner – 130. However

131. International Olympic Committee (1,1,1) 132. Night before

133. Army commando regiment (1,1,1)

141. Bow and arrow sport 142. Achieve goal

145. Fearless adventurers 146. Increase rapidly 148. Expecting

149. Initiating

152. Radio okay

153. Jeans pioneer, – Strauss

154. School monitors 155. Soviet Union (1,1,1,1) 156. Swamp grasses

160. Long bounding stride 161. Tuition

163. Automatic tellers (1,1,2)

165. Window glass 166. Bathroom sink (4,5) 167. Murdered

170. Bursting like a volcano

171. Calls a meeting

175. Make amends

176. Water cisterns 178. Tibetan leader,

– Lama

179. Ancient times, in the – days

182. Pass, years may –

185. Tic

188. False notions

189. Gas, power, phone, and so on

190. Upper limb

192. Deletions

193. Newly walking infants

194. Soar

195. Tell off (5,4) 196. Passenger jet 199. Distorted

201. Geothermal spring 204. Cousin’s mum

207. Purring pets 210. Impossible fantasies (4,6)

211. Stare stupidly 213. Smooch

214. Biblical great war 216. Half, – circle

217. Stayed abreast (4,2) 218. Improvises (2-4) 219. Magnitude

221. Chapter in history 223. Bulkiest

225. Small fishes 227. Commercials (abbrev)

228. Vitality

231. Guided

233. UK capital 234. Non-consonants 235. Accounts book 237. Tenacious

2 39. Routines

240. Earnings

245. Dull throb

247. Santa’s bag, eg

248. King of beasts 249. Interrupting cough 250. Cruel tsar, – the Terrible

251. Mirth, delight Solution in next month’s issue.