The Colossus
ACROSS
1. Overjoyed
6. Broke, – promise 11. Rapidly 16. Characteristic tastes 21. Prince Edward, – of Wessex
22. Related to warships, eg
23. North American Great Lake
24. Fluid level tester 25. Emotional eruption 26. Lack of feeling 27. Opiate
28. Potter’s oven
29. Slashes, – at 31. Complain, – and groan
32. Fairground car 36. Sceptic
37. Brave woman 38. Warning bells 41. Seaweed
44. Distribute 45. Nose-related 48. Margarita liquor 49. Muffle, – the sound 52. Goal-kicker 56. Unsightliest 57. Mountaineer’s tool (3,3)
58. Live-in lover (2,5) 61. Motor
62. Classic, – car, eg 63. Slipped up
64. Head monk
65. Applied therapy to, – the patient 66. Discolours, – the paper
67. Exercise club 71. Mushrooms and toadstools
73. Faint shade, – of colour
75. Small gardening shears
80. Ventilates
82. Bed attire
83. Impetuous 85. 12-month-old animal 86. Tinting hair, eg 88. Crafted anew 90. Calmly
91. Blood vessels 93. Declare approval of, support
94. Passenger lift
95. Large star clusters 96. Roman XV
97. Shop light, – sign 99. Abode
100. Spattered
104. Happen next
105. Encore!
106. Crop up 107. Enrols
111. Oxen harnesses
113. Mesh trap
114. Toddler, tiny –
115. Hearty
117. Blackout, power – 118. Fashion sense
121. Furious, angry 122. Painter’s tripod
125. Peru beasts
126. Baby filly or colt 127. Pagan statue
129. Croak
131. Until, – – now (2,2) 132. Seen-before sensation (4,2)
135. Slender
136. Best approximation, – thing to
139. Basketball ring 140. Hammered, – in
144. Nom de plume
145. Clutch
146. Goodbye
147. Marvellous!
148. Native American tribe 149. Prize
150. Respite (3-2)
152. Panache
154. Aromas
157. NZ symbol bird
158. Nieces and –
162. Terrible tsar
163. Furry aquatic mammals
166. Retained
167. Henpecks
169. Leave out, – name 171. Timber
172. Breakfast food 173. Assailed
175. Bengal feline
176. Allude
179. Drink alcohol
180. Scientist, – Curie 182. Cocktail, Mai – 183. Knight’s title 184. Pyromaniac’s crime 186. Recording period, eg 189. –, beta, gamma 190. US New England
State
191. Religion of Mecca 192. Down payment 196. Divisible by two, – number
197. Frog habitat
198. Cherubic
199. Visionaries
201. Skin cancer
202. Dream
203. Lodge firmly
204. Cutlet (4,4)
205. Trendiest
208. Trouble
210. Rectory
211. She was, they – 212. Whaling spear 213. Unclothed
215. Tourist
219. Olive farm, eg 221. Straighten
223. Muscle kneaders 227. Staggering
228. Ill-bred, coarse 230. Colloquialism
231. Enamel
232. Evaded, – duty
233. Kilt pattern
234. Skilled performer 238. Detest
239. Movie preview
240. Flock of geese
243. Vipers
246. Refereed
247. Verges
250. Inclusive of costs (3-2) 251. African republic,
Sierra –
253. Maxims
256. Crocheted blankets, eg
257. WWll Nazi police 258. Knife covering 262. Receive, – a salary 263. Devonshire tea bun 266. Drench
268. Wet-weather garment
269. Ghastly
270. Poison remedy 271. Eighteen, –, twenty 272. Magnitude
273. Bake meat, eg
274. Tatters
275. Globules
276. Remodelled
277. Evaluates
278. Prank
DOWN
1. World-weary 2. Two-footed
3. Supple
4. Narrow part of bottle 5. Removing, – away 6. Golden-haired woman
7. Rave about
8. Tallied
9. Preserve as sacred 10. Statistics
11. Subsided
12. Most luxurious 13. Official boycott 14. Check off one by one 15. Servile aides (3,3) 16. Decisive rounds
17. Bony
18. Outspoken
19. Absolute, – nonsense 20. Religious cults 30. Country, – Rica 33. Unhealthy fatness 34. Greedy guts
35. Slanders
38. Algiers is there
39. Enliven
40. Misinterpret 42. Shoestring
43. Tennessee’s neighbour State
46. Grief
47. Parent’s sister
49. Cook chips, eg (4-3) 50. Kitchen smock 51. Whirling, – water
53. Beer mat
54. Famous outlaw, – Hood
55. Renovated tyre 59. Cinema regular 60. Coagulating
67. Hot springs
68. Wind like a river 69. Pollen sensitivity
70. Sly suggestion 72. Pointlessly
74. Gladdens
76. Failure of nerve (4,4)
77. Discreet
78. Disrobe
79. Proverbs
81. Indolence
84. Conch or cowrie 87. Tidied up
89. Comes forth
91. Explosive in nature 92. Ambles
98. Charity fete, eg
101. Prig
102. Ethiopia’s Addis – 103. Long steady look 108. Sheer hosiery 109. Baghdad citizen, eg 110. Copy outline of 112. Malaysian capital
(5,6)
116. Surplus
119. Chatty
120. Chauffeured vehicle 123. Goddess of love 124. Acquit
128. Continuous
130. Disbelief in deities 132. Whisky nips
133. Fruit extract
134. Crypt
137. Fable writer
138. Compere
141. Aside, – from
142. Depart
143. Extinct birds
151. Arctic native 153. Antiseptic solution 155. Sloping channel
156. Twig shelters
159. Guess
160. Scottish dish 161. Deteriorated 164. Forbidden
165. Jewish teacher 168. Clips on 170. Annoyance
173. Lanky person 174. Backer
177. Pursuing
178. Rioted
181. Rambling tale 185. Anomalies
186. Equine complexes 187. Exhaling audibly 188. Illegal
193. Mollify
194. Swirls
195. Wobbles
200. Cleverest
201. Tunes
206. Bickering
207. Related to heat 208. Tore, – stocking 209. Metal chimneys 211. Grapple
214. Strive to equal 216. Disregarded 217. Calling like an owl 218. Sofas
220. Yet to be paid, amount –
222. Idiotic, – remark 224. Conspires
225. Kiev is there 226. Component 229. Difficult
232. Spurn
235. Relieve of anxieties 236. Snow house 237. Divergent courses 241. Fishermen
242. Dad’s dad
244. Aversion
245. Motives
248. Free
249. Carpenter’s smoothing tool 251. No-hopers 252. Marmalade fruit 253. Bitterly pungent 254. Mexican friend 255. Surpass
259. “Laughing” African scavenger
260. Sports stadium 261. Thus
262. Sunrise direction 264. Lump of earth 265. US space agency (1,1,1,1)
267. Affectionate peck Solution in next month’s issue.