The Colossus

ACROSS

1. Back of the neck

4. Aid in or after crime

6. Shatter, … the window

9. Unopened flowers

13. Outbuilding, garden …

16. Sudden attack

19. Scrabble piece

20. Sink fixtures

22. Room’s furnishing scheme

23. Twosome

24. Dizzy

25. Range between soprano and tenor

26. Mischievous sprite in A Midsummer Night’s Dream

27. Humdrum

28. Acquires by purchase

29. Opened, … the knot

31. Remunerate too highly

35. Arrange differently

37. Charged particles

38. Suddenly saw, spotted

41. Gets married

43. Is inclined, … to

44. Very wet, saturated

45. Small cut

48. Distort

50. Victimised

52. Bite sharply

54. Playing cards held

56. Pencil erasers

58. Artistic style

59. Silence, … the rumours (3,1,4,2)

62. In the past, long …

64. Slippery yellow fruit peel (6,4)

66. Absolutely essential, … have

67. Property document, title …

68. Say sorry, issue an …

73. Takeaway foot outlet, fish and … (4,4)

77. Frightens

78. Fine French brandy

80. Sudden surge, stampede

81. Lubricate, … the hinges

82. Wire-tap, … their phones

84. Desert your post (2,1,1,1,1)

86. Clothing, attire

89. Julius Caesar’s fateful date, the … of March

91. Operatic solo

92. Average (2-2)

96. Mix with a spoon

97. Gone With the Wind star, Clark …

100. Tinkered, dabbled with

101. French-style restaurant

105. Silky angora yarn

106. Part of speech often ending “ly”

108. Right side of a ship

110. Pacifies

111. Cider’s fruit base

114. Sounds like a dove

115. Explosive star, super …

117. Exceed, … the limit

120. Wields

122. Makes miserable

127. Song, … Who Had a Heart

128. Vegetable in a pod

130. Acorn tree

131. Found out

133. Self-possession, with …

134. Downright, … nonsense

136. Delighted, over the moon

139. Dislikes, detests

143. Fruit peel, lemon …

144. Radiate, … heat

146. Well-meaning efforts, good …

148. Give a nickname

150. Pasta sauce with anchovies and capers

153. Poison, snake …

155. Tropical fruits

156. Stratagem

157. Desiccated

158. Portable DIY kit (4-3)

160. Spoke

164. Short journey, quick …

166. Parsley and sage, mixed …

168. Small slumlike building

169. Listen attentively, be all …

171. Vicious, brutal

176. Extinct bird

178. Argentina’s capital, Buenos …

179. Simmer down (4,3)

183. UK actress, Dame Judi …

185. Fellow, guy

187. Vexes

188. Depart go …

189. Additional tax, petrol …

190. Whispered remark

191. Animated movie, Monsters …

192. Turn topsy-turvy

194. Allows, permits

195. Camera glass

196. Poker stake

197. Pitch-black

198. Sacred

199. Nature, … and fauna

200. Picnic icebox

201. Legal rules

DOWN

1. Worth remembering, … victory

2. Opium flower

3. Japanese poetry style

4. State further

5. Converted into cypher

7. Tiny insect

8. Rush down in flight

10. Endure, … surgery

11. Pigpen

12. Leave the nest

14. Greet, say …

15. Somnolent

17. Thus, therefore

18. Very unattractive

21. Japanese rice and seaweed roll

25. Accurately arrange

30. Carpenter’s wooden pin

32. Right to reject a bill

33. Leasing

34. Too, as well

36. Reminds, … my memory

39. Flat-bladed cakemaking tool

40. First appearance, make your …

42. Ranked tennis player

44. Cleansing bar

46. Walkway lined with columns

47. Go up in flames

49. Baby grand instrument

51. Behind schedule

52. Most tidy

53. Made, generated

55. Lacking colour

57. Fundamental part, the … of the plan

60. Wild party

61. Pointless, a … attempt

63. Rules as a monarch

65. Dental pain, tooth …

69. Peculiarities of diction

70. Itemise, … their names

71. Special event, … occasion

72. Arabian Nights hero, Ali …

74. Puddle, … of water

75. Meagre, a … amount

76. Bird’s sleeping perch

77. Defeat by a small margin, … at the post

79. Ill-bred dog

81. Iridescent gem

83. Grant

85. Bed along which a river flows

87. Wickerwork material

88. Be very sure, … he will win (3,4)

89. Mathematical symbols

90. Mummifies

93. Non-clerics

94. Lifted, elevated

95. Walk crabwise

97. Methane, eg

98. Lingerie item

99. Abate, recede

102. Health resort

103. Reprimand, … over the knuckles

104. Night before, on the … of

107. Run of eight notes

109. Gather, … crops

112. Colour of coral or salmon

113. Trolleys, wagons

116. Book, … Karenina 118. The briny

119. Drains, weakens

120. Imaginary perfect place

121. Inlaid

123. Skilful, deft

124. Over, … and dusted

125. Gobble up

126. Sunset direction

129. Bride’s young attendant (4,3)

132. Iconic small motor vehicle

135. Nanny or billy

137. Get in touch, make …

138. Bind securely (3,2)

140. Cubans or stilettos, eg

141. Hessian material

142. Informal photograph

145. Main body of a ship

147. Pulls behind, … a caravan

149. Get to the bottom of

151. Protection or patronage, under his …

152. Rodents

154. Carry-bag

159. Bowl, sink

161. Cogwheel mechanism

162. Begone!

163. Symbol used in writing music

165. Elephant tusk substance

167. Marked by brutality or depravity

170. Apply yourself to, … the problem

172. Frank, outspoken

173. Makes bare, reveals

174. Rotten, an … egg

175. Sprinted, ran

177. Scuba tank user

179. Snooker sticks

180. Style of bay window

181. Happen, take place

182. Clan vendetta, eg

184. Ceases

186. “Laughing” African scavenger

190. Fire residue

193. Period of 24 hours

Solution in next month’s issue.