The Colossus
ACROSS
2. Flab around middle, spare …
4. Colourful pen type (4,3)
8. Route plan (4,3)
12. Desperate request
16. Feathery stole
17. Jeer, catcall
18. Skydive, parachute …
19. Capital of France
20. Familiar, recognised
21. Julia Roberts movie, … Lisa Smile
22. Units of electrical current
24. Without a clue, have no …
27. Malicious slur
28. Bespectacled Disney dwarf
30. Colour artificially
32. Add sugar, … your tea
33. Evil spell
34. Cinema attendant
36. Office reminders
37. Meat from a calf
41. Edges
42. The Supremes song, … Child
43. From Bangkok, eg
44. Movie and musical, …and Dolls
46. Doctor Zhivago star, … Sharif
48. Gorilla, eg
50. Type of piping installer (3,6)
55. Lobed organ
58. Local fair, garden …
59. Voice box
61. Metalworker
63. Play music in the street for money
64. Generally, as a …
65. Deliberately vague, an … answer
66. The Three Wise Men
67. Amounts,
… of money
69. Rooms in the roof
71. Athletic
73. Melt
76. Brad Pitt movie,
Mr and … Smith
77. Wobble, quiver
79. Large fish,
Murray …
81. Hawaiian greeting
82. Open a jar, eg
84. Partial or total memory loss
86. Series of tennis strokes
87. Vehicle, sedan …
88. Cow’s lowing noise
89. Style of canoe
91. Be the breadwinner
93. Biblical missive, eg
97. Collide, … into
99. Ravioli or penne, eg
101. Resided, lived at
103. Turn to ice
104. Angry harangue
106. Methods, ways and …
108. Nickname for a helicopter
109. Grains, pips
110. Go away! Scram! (4,2)
112. Facilitate, make possible
114. Artery of the heart
116. Movie, Bonnie and …
119. Japanese form of wrestling
120. Wealthiest
123. Only just OK (2-2)
125. Chopped down
127. Children’s book, … and the Kangaroo
128. Contend
129. Holiday entitlement, annual …
130. Male rowing crews
133. Chipolata, snag
136. Tempted
137. Bite or pinch
138. Half-melted snow
141. You Wear It Well singer, … Stewart
142. Bacon skin, eg
145. Star of Baywatch, … Anderson
147. Phone user
148. Place your foot, tread on
150. Killer whale
151. Friendly and warm, … relationship
152. Opera melody
153. Footpath’s edge
154. Male goose
157. Compensate for, counterbalance
160. Onion-like vegetable
161. Favourite, teacher’s …
162. Strike back
166. Precious stone
169. Position for a building
170. UK actress, … Thompson
172. Company symbol
174. Open-mouthed, … with excitement
177. Revolve, turn
178. Sudden fancy, on a …
180. Canal cargo boat
181. Flour sifter
182. Bill Sikes’ girlfriend in Oliver Twist
185. Japanese paperfolding art
186. Wily, secretive
188. Expected, … to arrive
190. Builds up, … interest
191. Cole Porter musical, Anything …
196. Curly hair treatment
198. Legendary beauty, Helen of …
199. John Farnham hit, A … of Paradise
200. Speak, … a few words
201. Half, … circle
202. Winning tennis serve
203. Travel over snow
204. Teeming, … with
205. Creeks, rivulets
206. Progress, make …
207. Movie, The Seven
Year ...
DOWN
1. Caustic and rough in manner
2. Indian tomb landmark (3,5)
3. Created again
4. Shaving froth
5. Drinks like a dog
6. Trunk of the body
7. Exam success
8. Gardening tool
9. Great pain
10. Undersized
11. Wan, ashen
13. Undo, … the knot
14. Slaughterhouse
15. Sharp taste
22. Segment of a circle
23. WA capital
25. Baby’s pacifier
26. Beast of burden
28. Blueprint, plan
29. Dice shapes, eg
30. Gist, get your …
31. Political exile
35. Part of stereo equipment (2-2)
38. Defeated players
39. Mass of salt water
40. Australian movie, Looking … Alibrandi
41. Bunny
43. Drink made with a bag, eg
45. Look at
47. List of available dishes
49. Delight, enjoyment
51. Hatchets
52. Camera light
53. Consider, … it over
54. Sheep mothers
56. Military base (4,4)
57. Afghanistan’s continent
60. Work schedules
62. Mends socks
67. Heaped, … up
68. Temperamental
70. Ill-bred dog
72. Thumbtack, drawing …
74. Pulls up, stops
75. Ambushes, accosts
76. Kurt Weill classic, … the Knife
77. Trade, … for
78. Aristocratic title
80. Without hesitation, at the … of a hat
83. Linking, making …
85. Humiliates
90. Insinuated, … to
92. Tune, melody
93. Constituency voter
94. Totally foolish
95. Left over, extra (2,5)
96. Beseech
98. Wet soil
100. Alternative name
for the windflower
102. Misery
103. White lie
105. Night before, on the … of
107. Louse egg
109. Civil rather than religious
111. Perfume, … de Cologne
113. LA, … Angeles
115. Totalled (5,2)
117. Desire deeply, … for
118. Biblical paradise
119. Industrial action, work …
121. Charged particles
122. Band worn over the shoulder
124. Appraise too highly
125. Detained, … in custody
126. Most dire, the … possible situation
131. Fireworks, … candles
132. Actor and movie director, … Gibson
134. World superpower (1,1,1)
135. Geography book
139. Insect stage
140. Futuristic stories (3-2)
143. Listed thing
144. Tells tales on (4,2)
146. Old land measurement
147. Lump (of cream)
148. Jaundiced looking
149. Observes
155. Devoured
156. Deletes
158. Cat-like
159. Sense of self
161. Fairytale,
The Princess and the …
163. Slightly intoxicated
164. Tardy, behind schedule
165. Pointed a weapon
167. TV series, The … from U.N.C.L.E.
168. Oliver! song, … He Needs Me (2,4,2)
169. Threatening, ominous
171. Bart Simpson’s mum
173. Type of literature, eg
175. Macabre, grisly
176. Hugely successful record, eg (5,3)
179. 24 hours away from work (3,3)
180. Large
183. Potato-like tuber
184. Receive, … an award
187. Actress, ... Dern
189. UV, … violet
192. Lyric poems
193. Cause, … up trouble
194. Taylor Swift song, ... Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things
195. Australian actor, … Jackman
196. Front of a ship
197. Depend on