The Colossus
ACROSS
1. Large clump of grass
6. The Flintstones’ daughter
11. Silently agreeing
15. As a substitute (2,4)
16. Looney Tunes character, Wile E. …
17. Avail yourself of
18. Funnel-shaped windstorm
19. Social effort to help those in need
20. Medicinal plant, aloe …
23. Milliner’s products
25. Gave a backhander to
29. Nuisances
32. TV quiz show host, … McGuire
35. Most uncommon
38. UK actress, … Weisz
39. River on the US-Mexican border, Rio …
40. Desist
41. Makes equal, … up the score
43. Got bigger, had …
44. Icehouse hit, Great … Land
46. US Atlantic states, North and South …
48. Publicity photos for a movie
49. Runaway singer, … Shannon
51. Soothing liquid, calamine …
52. Go by, time will …
53. Cart pulled by horses
55. Steady, unfluctuating
56. Trainee soldiers
59. Searches to obtain food
61. Well-groomed
65. Postscripts
67. Highly valued
68. Cooking utensils
69. Strip of a Venetian blind
71. Citrus-flavoured beverage (5,3)
72. Group of cattle
73. Confused, all at …
75. Fault, defect
77. Established as true, … the case
78. Part of a school year
79. Muslim prince
81. Host of Family Feud, Grant …
82. Him and her 83. Antiquated, … methods
86. Aussie birds
88. Cricket scores
90. Barren, parched
91. Play with
92. Addition sign
94. Large cymbal
96. Aquatic bird, black …
97. Obligation, do your …
99. Worthless unwanted items
101. Hulk star, ... Bana
103. Secret or advance information, get a … (3-3)
104. Hearing distance, within …
105. Lustrous, … finish
107. Give a shine to, polish
109. Unpleasantly moist
110. Covetous emotion
111. Flower, tiger …
113. Piece of luggage
114. Air bed
116. Droop
118. Refuse to admit, … the rumours
119. Continent to our north
120. Biblical murderer
122. Smoker’s receptacle
123. Crooned, had …
124. Golfer’s aide
127. Desperate request
129. Disorder, confusion
130. Special words of a profession
133. Common condiment, rock …
135. For what purpose?
137. Tenancy money
138. Has faith, … in
140. Rip, … into shreds
142. JRR Tolkien novel series, The … of the Rings
143. Portrait by Leonardo da Vinci (4,4)
144. Fellow student
147. Changes position
152. Network of crossed laths
154. Abolish, … the law
157. Tracked down prey
158. Completely, … informed
159. Steal
160. Newspaper chief, eg
161. Offer made at auction
162. Star of A Fish Called Wanda, Jamie Lee ...
163. Keeps in quarantine
166. Large flat fish with a long barbed tail
168. Keyboard instrument, electric …
169. Should, … to
170. Ascend, mount
171. Soldier’s knapsack (3-3)
173. Make an urgent request, … to
175. 2004 Olympics city
178. Marine defence ships, … fleet
181. Singer, … Mars
183. Written assignments
187. Military force
189. Flip, … a pancake
192. Bar snacks, salted …
193. Breathing passage in nose
194. Coincide partially
195. Eagerly, avidly
196. Lazy people
197. Helps, aids
198. Slackest, … knot
199. Blatantly, openly
DOWN
1. Hitchhike, … a ride
2. Futuristic fiction (3-2)
3. Popeye’s girlfriend, … Oyl
4. Former Soviet name for the capital of Ukraine
5. Speak indistinctly, … your words
6. Shortest golf shots
7. Yaps
8. Hire contract
9. Reprimand harshly
10. Long period of unconsciousness
11. Current affairs
12. Triangular rivermouth
13. Vacuous, senseless
14. Welcome, … the guests
21. Egged on
22. Copy, mimic
23. Stevie Wonder hit, I Was Made to Love …
24. Object hit about on a court (6,4)
26. Soft Italian cheese
27. Raised type for blind people
28. Frocks, gowns
30. Model and businesswoman, … Macpherson
31. Adolescent (abbrev)
33. CD, compact …
34. Dr Frankenstein’s manservant
35. Amused, … with stories
36. Apex of a building
37. Song, Do You Know the Way to … (3,4)
42. Grace, refinement
45. Quieten
47. Australian actor, Barry …
49. Short arrow
50. Company’s identifying symbol
53. Courts romantically
54. Mesh curtains
56. Trailing plants
57. As before
58. Subject matter
59. Feel affection, be … of
60. Ego, sense of …
62. Unaccompanied
63. Mince burger, meat …
64. Driver fury (4,4)
65. Pastoral property
66. Price reduction event
68. Curly hair treatment
70. Subdue, make gentle
72. Note, take … of the warning
73. Religious subgroup
74. Soap opera, Home and …
76. Feeble person
78. Slim, skinny
80. Reign over
82. Motoring hold-up, … jam
83. Insect’s feeler
84. Position of difficult responsibility (3,4)
85. Spicy relish, mango …
87. Outpouring, … out
89. Firmly fastens
90. Really unpleasant
93. Stupid, foolish
95. Desert waterhole area
96. Cry convulsively
97. Father
98. Himalayan ox
99. Goodfellas star, … Pesci
100. Musical pitch
102. Affectedly shy
106. Small blocks of frozen water (3,5)
108. Flustered, in a …
111. Part of a camera
112. Most important canvas of a yacht
115. Lubricates
116. Exhibition
117. Shark type, … nurse
118. Dry earth
121. Tidy, shipshape
123. Post, mail a letter
125. Indian capital, New …
126. Non-reacting, … gas
128. Star Wars actor, Sir ... Guinness
129. Simple, paltry
131. Old saying
132. Show the way
134. High, towering
136. Pushing roughly, jostling
137. Parrot-fashion method of learning
139. Political party’s image enhancer, eg (4,6)
141. Flying branch of the military (1,1,1,1)
142. Patterned like a doily
143. Approximately, roughly (4,2,4)
145. End of a cigarette
146. Unassertive, meek and …
148. Place of concealment
149. Weariness
150. Decreases, contracts
151. Large NZ insect
153. At that time
154. Make use of waste materials
155. Norman Bates in Psycho, Anthony …
156. Jovially
164. Ancient Roman garment
165. Tofu bean
166. Mix with a spoon
167. Russian tsar, … the Terrible
172. No matter which
174. Whatever comes, take … luck
175. Dominating individual, … male
176. Elimination races in a competition
177. Naming words
179. Kitchen flooring material, eg
180. Cowboy rope
181. Canal boat
182. Dark , an … passageway
184. Subdivision of a play
185. Distribute in portions
186. Maudlin, sentimental
187. Puts questions to
188. Encounter
190. Pensive poems
191. Passable (2-2) Solution in next month’s issue.