The Colossus
ACROSS
1. Close call (4,4)
6. Rewrites
11. Evaluate
16. Scraping
21. This spot
22. Altogether (2,3)
23. Sodium bicarbonate, baking –
24. Motorbike, Harley –
25. Broad vista
26. Dies down
27. Suffered, – over
28. Made on loom
29. Encourage (3,2)
31. Serpents
32. Enrol 36. Common-sense, – solution
37. Nutritional
38. Dexterously
41. Goes towards, – for
44. Function host
45. Wimp
48. Israeli port city (3,4)
49. Slopes
52. Rogue
56. Asks to party, eg
57. Nullify
58. Support, – a cause
61. Kampala is there
62. Go-between, – officer
63. Andes beast
64. Monarch's rule
65. Passion, eg
66. Brazil's neighbour
67. Obtain bearings
71. Country, – Rica
73. Comb part
75. Jazzman, Louis –
80. Deem
82. Kitchen benchtop stone surface, eg
83. Introduce to solid food
85. Fruit groves 86. Distributes
88. Abhor
90. Apply retrospectively
91. Used needle and thread
93. Heartfelt
94. Pedigree, – dog, eg (4-4)
95. Mental deterioration condition
96. Acumen
97. Taboo action (2-2)
99. Metal currency item
100. Cynic
104. Earnings, weekly –
105. Thump
106. Geological division
107. First book of Bible
111. Terminate
113. Health resort
114. Tyrant, Attila the –
115. Be real, live 117. Recapture
118. Wash out suds
121. Coronet
122. Pours with rain
125. Fancy necktie
126. A distance off
127. Run engine in neutral
129. Scottish monster lake, Loch –
131. Salmon or trout, eg
132. Multitude
135. Lose, – fur
136. Chores
139. Grotto
140. Less difficult
144. Bread-raising agent
145. Set of musical notes
146. Castor
147. Claims court, eg
148. Male committee heads
149. Depart
150. Solemn promises
152. Royal dog breed
154. Giving medicine to
157. Mix with spoon
158. Liberate (3,4)
162. Onboard, get –
163. Diminishes
166. Corrodes, – away at
167. Trawling equipment 169. Witticism
171. Doubtful
172. Frozen dessert
173. Yellow-coloured alloy
175. Song, Some of – Days
176. Pre-Soviet emperors
179. Deleted
180. Fortunate
182. Foot digit
183. Revolutionary, – Guevara
184. Brainwaves
186. Reverses tape to start
189. Spiny succulents
190. Construct
191. Walked through water
192. List down
196. # symbol
197. Sinful
198. Squirm
199. Scored on par
201. Rectifies
202. Grumbling
203. Fiend
204. Contagious outbreak
205. Nibbled
208. Hope, – to
210. Creeping
211. Fabric join
212. Provoked
213. Back of neck
215. Body-hugging
219. Pancake topping, maple – 221. Pulls
223. Drove away, – fears
227. Rangier
228. Board game, Trivial –
230. Jargon
231. Eyrie dweller
232. Merrier
233. Local flora, – plants
234. Edible marine molluscs
238. Harvester
239. Small frying pan
240. Strappy shoe
243. Weigh up
246. Hispanic Americans
247. Scorches
250. Claw
251. Greeting word
253. Banquets
256. Embroil
257. Get to grips, – with
258. Taller
262. Movie, The Way We –
263. House tops
266. UAE, United – Emirates
268. Re-evoke, – memories
269. Fragrant waxy shrub
270. Songwriter
271. Approve, – the plan
272. Throb painfully
273. Repeatedly
274. Unspoilt paradise
275. Revenue department
276. Protects from storm
277. Mad
278. Minor battle
DOWN
1. Poke with elbow
2. Smithy block
3. Fashions
4. Exhibit
5. Spanish couple, senor and –
6. Wards off
7. Irish county
8. Ethiopian or Kenyan, eg
9. Eternal
10. Catch, – stocking
11. Additionally
12. Ransacks
13. Staff schedules
14. Midwestern US state
15. School compositions
16. Modifies
17. Cases
18. Sharpshooter, – Oakley
19. Magnified section of page, eg
20. Dizzy
30. Small lizard
33. Poorer 34. Conjure up
35. Become sparser (4,3)
38. Eager beavers
39. Paler
40. Rest, have a – (3-4)
42. Smooth
43. Drearier
46. Language of Milan, eg
47. Flank
49. Picks
50. Throat lump, – apple (4'1)
51. Leaf-drink sachets
53. Charged with bubbles
54. Egypt's capital
55. Midday meals
59. Looted
60. Revealed
67. Wind instrumentalists
68. Perfumed burning stick
69. Tidiest
70. Viewing public
72. Female hormone
74. XXI (6-3)
76. Definitions
77. Absorbs (5,2)
78. Citrus fruits
79. Minority group slum areas
81. Nation's flight strength (3,5)
84. Clips on
87. Moulded in relief
89. Factors
91. Marine liquid
92. Ship's labourer
98. World's largest desert
101. From Prague
102. Baby grand, eg
103. Glacial era (3,3)
108. Engraver
109. Tests
110. Furious, angry
112. Numbing drug
116. Whiskey-laced hot drink (5,6)
119. Heir
120. Cheek whiskers
123. Snails
124. Famous actor (5,4)
128. Skinniest
130. Fugitive
132. Hauled
133. Smells foul
134. Synthetic fibre
137. Rekindled
138. Finer, – weather
141. Speak off-the-cuff (2-3)
142. Inappropriate
143. Coral barriers
151. Of long duration (3-3)
153. Cheeriest 155. Unhealthily fat
156. Baghdad citizen
159. Respected
160. Tightens, – muscle
161. Expulsion
164. Frighten
165. Jugs
168. Rough figure
170. Race officials
173. Unexpectedly (2,6)
174. Great foe
177. Kidnapping
178. Dodge
181. Guiding, – to seat
185. Illnesses
186. Tenderness of wound, eg
187. Iconic Honolulu beach
188. Lack of caring
193. Come forth
194. Primary
195. Betrothed
200. Climbs down
201. Devise
206. Pesters
207. Trade certificate
208. Speak to, – a crowd
209. Bacon strips
211. Rockier
214. Instruct
216. Finger joint
217. Snuggles
218. Frigidity
220. Altercation (3-2)
222. 90 degrees, right –
224. Ancient Nile king
225. Drifting into, – into a coma, eg
226. Ugly sight
229. London gallery, – Modern
232. Lucifer's abode
235. Hidden, – motive
236. Barrage
237. December 31 song, Auld – – (4,4)
241. Unfavourable
242. Most boring
244. Fortitude
245. Immature tree
248. CIA, Central Intelligence –
249. Prolonged assaults
251. Warmed up
252. Tenancy agreements
253. Winner's position
254. Conscious of
255. Snares
259. Bring upon oneself
260. Caribbean republic
261. US cattle station
262. Be dressed in
264. Louts
265. Absconded
267. Financial institution
Solution in next month’s issue