The Colossus

ACROSS

1. Spicy tortillas 6. Grounded (appliance)

10. Pleas

16. Small carpet 17. Science room

19. St – of Assisi

20. Raw minerals 21. Largest continent 22. Loom operators 23. Inundate

26. Rub out

28. Abraded

30. Business outfits 31. Youth

33. 52-week intervals 35. Consume (alcohol) 37. Mum and –

38. Irritates

39. Unworldly

41. Clock faces

43. Mayday signal (1,1,1) 44. Stretch to make last 45. Male cattle 46. Harassed

48. Andes animal

50. Fuse (metal) 51. Cheerfully

52. Parrot or finch

53. Tarry

55. Clever 57. Part-exchanges (5-3) 60. Heats (5,2)

62. In the – of luxury 64. Hollered

67. Moistens

68. Ocean phases 69. Paradise

71. China's Hong – 72. Pressure of work 74. Spools

75. Mixer drink

77. Swedish car brand 79. Deteriorate

82. Beer

83. Political convention 85. Chest bone 87. Produced an egg 89. Salesman

90. Canal

91. – Wide Web

92. Winery tank

94. Revise (text) 96. Carpentry spike 98. Noble title

99. Out of the mouths of –

100. Fertile desert spot 102. Distort

104. Highlander

106. Instructor

107. Spare

109. Hearing organs 111. Jubilation 112. Complete collection 113. Court panel 114. Frangipani garlands 116. Track event

118. Guide

119. Forbids

121. Dreary

123. Stride

125. Respite

127. Possesses

128. Makes (wage) 130. Sector

132. Nevada's –Vegas 134. Reveal secret 136. Express verbally 137. Golfer's assistant 139. Italian farewell

140. Love, honour and – 141. Tusk material 143. Ordinary

145. Trim

147. Explosive (1,1,1)

148. Leg joint

149. Tip of triangle

150. Per, for –

152. Leavening agent 154. Historical periods 156. Aquatic mammal 158. Puncture sound

159. Tiny island

161. Bundle of cash 163. Verses

165. Toboggan

167. Heal

169. Wrist ornament 171. Dismiss from job 173. Car safety cushions 175. Acorn bearer (3,4) 177. Resupply with weapons

179. Hourglass contents 181. Fluorescent colours 182. Crones

183. Faucet trickle 185. Smooth and shiny 187. Durable timber 189. We were, I – 190. Tropical tuber 191. Sports team

192. Catch (thief) 194. Subdued 196. Be victorious

197. Feline pets 198. UK landmark, Big – 199. Drooped

202. Allotted, – out 204. Thailand (formerly) 205. Fly traps

206. Gizmo

208. Way off

210. Hibernate

212. Biros

213. Alpha, –, gamma 214. Rejoins

216. Hostel chain (1,1,1,1) 217. Excluding 219. Cause to explode 221. Give lessons

223. Omit

225. Allow

226. Buffalo

227. Whisky nip 230. Slobber

232. Blunders (5,2) 235. Cosmetics brand, Elizabeth –

236. Remain

238. Tavern

240. Soup utensil

242. Scour

243. Forthright

244. Search high and – 245. Mass departure 246. Fringed

247. Little nap

248. Augment

249. Restart (computer) 251. LA, – Angeles 253. Destinies

255. Recited (prayer) 256. Fox brush

258. Baklava pastry 259. Phoenix is there 260. Wrongdoing

261. Actor, – Harrison 262. Selfishness 263. Craziness 264. Promenades

DOWN

1. Productive

2. Mime

3. Prickled

4. Moreover

5. Craftily

6. EU cash

7. Elderly

8. Otherwise, or –

9. Milk farm

11. Numbers

12. Lines of knitting 13. Scares

14. Arrange in list 15. Stopped temporarily 16. Plant anchors 18. Bleated

24. Commits perjury 25. Conceited

27. Yacht canvas 29. Passing fashion 30. Window ledges 31. Extols

32. Movie disc (1,1,1) 34. Shuts hard 36. Decorative knot 38. Wrecks

39. Standards

40. Electric fish

42. Slap

45. Angler's lures

46. Leases

47. Open valley 49. Direction sign

51. – and ganders 52. Poorly

54. Gallivants (about) 56. Bocelli or Pavarotti 58. Decay

59. Resided

60. Exercise (influence) 61. Army chaplain

63. Run of bell-chimes 65. Concur 66. East-northeast (1,1,1) 68. Informs

70. Curry bread

72. Bondi Beach city 73. Badminton bats 74. Less common

76. Helps

78. Bigotry

80. Dogs, cocker – 81. Sheer hosiery 83. Manlike machine 84. Coarse file

86. Bicycle

88. Chop into cubes 91. Irrigated

92. Fluctuate

93. Plough (field)

95. Rip

97. Hehehe

99. Military HQ 100. Belonging to us 101. Velvety kidskin 103. Cover (gift)

105. Lofty

107. Solar bodies

108. Title of respect 110. Wound crust

113. Brazil's Rio de – 115. Beauty parlour 117. Outshine 118. Regrettably

119. Pickle preservative 120. Mortgages, home – 122. Biblical tower

124. Roof overhangs 126. Knight's spear 129. Commercials

130. Pimple

131. Brief letters

133. Observe

135. Carton

137. KGB foe (1,1,1)

138. Reply

142. Aye

144. Carbonating

146. Jotters

148. Designer, Calvin – 149. Put on – and graces 151. Warning

153. Stories

155. Tasman and Red 157. From the menu, – carte (1,2) 158. Embraces

159. Annoys 160. Houses

162. Distributed cards 164. Shoo!

166. Attracted (crowd) 167. Tins

168. Stand-in monarch 170. Tyre pattern 172. Recognised

174. Wild pig

175. Rowing blades 176. Before now

178. Office circulars 180. Speaker's platform 182. Headwear

184. Infidel

186. Bushranger, Ned – 188. Dagger

190. Bar accounts 191. Family vehicle 193. Be appropriate to 195. Considers

197. Dollar division 198. Relay stick

200. Tennis hotshot 201. Went out with 203. Cruise ship levels 205. Cried

206. Embark (3,2) 207. Devour

209. Brings up (child) 211. Buckets

212. Steal a look 213. Besieged

214. Blushing

215. Extent

218. Members' group 219. Chose not to (4'1) 220. Pharaoh's people 222. Ruffians

224. Select

226. Belgian capital 228. Disciple of Jesus 229. Saturated soil 231. Company symbol 233. Prudish

234. Dine late

235. Emollient, – vera 236. Bawl

237. Doubly

239. Scorched

241. Chicks' shelters 243. Anti-wrinkle treatment

244. French Foreign – 248. Hay bundles 250. Yemen port 252. Cocktail, – colada 253. Conifers

254. Partition

257. Ambition Solution in next month’s issue