The Colossus

ACROSS

1. Nom de plume, false name

5. Steep rock face 9. Baby’s tummy-ache 13. Sing Alpine-style

16. Last Greek letter

17. Ice dwelling

18. Musical, The

Phantom of the … 19. Dutch bulb flower 20. Courtroom verdict giver

21. Poppy drug

22. Gamble

23. Roman god of the underworld

24. Small twig, eg 25. Repeat, do it …

26. Black wood

27. From that time on, … then

28. Samson’s Biblical betrayer

29. Produce, … eggs

30. Very foolish

32. Film location

34. Total amount, grand …

37. Baby bear

39. Scorching, boiling 41. Event site 42. Man-eating giant 44. Brave (effort) 47. Seven-day period 49. Made an effort 50. Ghostbusters actor, … Aykroyd

52. UK Royal racecourse 54. Accustoms baby to solid food 57. Encountered 59. Swallowed, … food 60. Liqueur, … Maria

61. Real money (4,4) 62. Snake sound

63. Front of lower leg 64. Artist’s container of colours

66. Rotary engine 67. Closing section of a book or play

69. Burn black

70. Ballet, … Lake

71. Sean Connery movie, The … House 75. Admits to holy orders

80. Shortage, scarcity 83. Gentle touch

85. Less fatty

86. Slake (thirst)

87. Ring up, call

88. Pressed clothes 89. Conceitedness 91. Sacred Egyptian beetle

93. Garden summerhouse

96. Burnt by liquid 100. Fourteen-line poem 103. No longer fashionable (3,3) 104. Arouse affection, … yourself

105. Rock band,

… as Anything 108. Entreat

112. Curl up in a soft place

115. Brideshead Revisited author, … Waugh 117. Climb up

118. Certifier of deeds 119. Space traveller 120. Challenging

121. Mythical Australian billabong creature 123. Magazine chief, eg 125. Novel, Memoirs of a …

127. Declares to be true 131. Geronimo’s Native American people 134. Dot, speck

135. Object, article

136. As a matter of fact, in reality

139. Offer too much for 140. Squandered period, your … youth 143. Paradise garden 144. Flower, … of the valley

145. Makes more wealthy 147. Round vegetable 148. Become tedious (4,4) 150. Fluid of a tree 151. Nephew’s sister 154. Draws breath in sharply

157. Weird, strange

158. Pokes nose in 160. Creative skills,

… and crafts

162. Strongly advised 164. Inscribe with acid 166. Mare or stallion 167. Formerly surnamed 168. Small brush stroke 170. Number of events in a decathlon 171. Adolescent male 173. Travelling container for toiletries

174. Milk or beef animal 175. Temporary substitute (5-2)

176. Defrosts, melts 180. Blacksmith’s block 181. Hooded snake

182. In the know 183. Operating, weilding 184. Egyptian capital

185. Billy Idol song,

… Yell

186. Common phrase or expression

187. Irritated, vexed 188. Undersea formations 189. Bottoms of the feet 190. Artist’s upright tripod 191. Closely packed 192. English actor, … Redmayne

193. Pours (with rain) 194. School tests

DOWN

1. Reindeer horns 2. Money acquired nefariously (3-6,5) 3. Maudlin, sentimental 4. Mass for the souls of the dead

5. Coaxing

6. Annoys, vexes

7. Bette Midler movie, The … Wives Club 8. Applicant

9. Prepares a meal 10. Supine (5,4)

11. In deep unconsciousness 12. Pottery, … ware 13. Shows tiredness 14. Person selfishly preventing another’s enjoyment (3,2,3,6) 15. Greatest in size 28. Expected to arrive 31. Sever, snip

33. Steve Carell comedy, … Almighty

34. Dusk, day’s end 35. Self-esteem

36. Needle hole 38. Honeymooners’ hotel rooms, … suite

40. Lyric poems

43. Red salad vegetables

45. Emitted (a sound) 46. African language 48. Educated guess 50. US term for “nappy” 51. Brave chap

53. Late Cuban leader, Fidel …

55. Appraise

56. Angel’s musical instrument

58. Beat wheat to separate seeds from chaff

65. Team sport played on sand (5,10)

68. Bit by bit (2,5,3,5) 72. Hanging part of the palate

73. Nous, common … 74. Leguminous vegetables (6,5) 76. Ancient artefact 77. Shock greatly

78. Not any person (2‑3) 79. Recipe constituent parts

81. Decorate, embellish 82. Subject matter 84. Building housing pigs 85. Musical,

… Misérables

90. Scruffy

92. Culinary experts 94. Variety of Buddhism 95. Feathery scarf

96. Glide over snow 97. Venomous snake 98. Performing pair 99. Colour artificially 101. Mineral at source 102. Almond or pecan

106. Eat away at

107. Song, … of a Clown 109. Arithmetic, eg

110. Slack

111. Show a response 113. Damascus is there 114. Noon meal

116. Sleep briefly 117. Gobbled up 122. Shamelessly bold 124. Person who fights for his honour

125. Vine fruits 126. Explanation of the meaning

127. Instantly! (2,4)

128. Road cleaner, eg 129. Bones enclosing the chest

130. Creeps crabwise 132. Post World War ll European Communist country 133. Increase in length 137. Curved, bent

138. Tells fibs

141. Frosted, … the cake 142. Pulpit speech

146. Back of the neck 149. Concept, thought 152. Capital of Pakistan 153. Chalice, trophy 155. Commercials (abbrev)

156. Chemical used in farming to kill insects, fungi and weeds

159. Toothed cutting tool 161. Prepare for a play 163. All over the world 165. Devours

166. Female bird 167. Became aware of 169. Makes infant noises 170. Neatest

172. Misleads

177. Music for a film 178. Bogus, artificial 179. Armed hold-up 180. Sprightly, active Solution in next month’s issue