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ACROSS 1. Imprudently 6. Venturing (guess) 12. Utmost 17. Camel’s watering hole 18. Abscond with lover 19. Forbid 20. Infant-minding 21. Becoming thinner 22. Slithery reptile 24. Street protests 26. Gave medicine to 29. Marches 33. Evict 36. Failed (exam) 39. Brazil’s Rio de … 41. Short time 42. Begin journey (3,3) 43. Grands or uprights 44. Dizzy 46. Feeble 48. Tell (story) 50. Poker stake 52. Pub drinks 54. Put into jar 56. Commercials 58. Prosecutes 60. Fruit seeds 61. Science room 62. Surgical birth 66. Skimpy bikini bottom (1-6) 67. Accosting 70. Fencing in 71. Ordered (about) 72. Postage adhesives 73. Otherwise titled (1,1,1) 75. Inn 76. Beirut is there 77. Spot on skin 78. Embedded (in) 80. Icky substance 81. More cautious 82. Spookier 85. Land/sky line 88. Hired guns 90. Naval missile 93. Silkiest 95. No … or buts 96. Burden of responsibility 97. Cash transaction 99. Dolphin group 100. Entangle 102. Hit with horns 104. Vendetta 105. Skits (4-3) 108. Drop by and see 110. Of oceanic flow 112. Cuba’s former president, Fidel … 114. Wears away 117. Pivot 118. Sorrowful poems 119. Wise biblical king 120. Storage box 122. Confidential matters 126. Delegate 129. Soup-serving utensil 132. Occupied 135. In progress 136. Letter coverings 137. Goading 138. Coral barriers 139. Bacon edges 140. Safe 141. TV charity appeals 142. Troublemakers
DOWN 1. Unzipped 2. Stinging insects 3. Sturdily 4. Slackens 5. Open mouth wearily 6. Bumpkin 7. Blaze’s remnants 8. More skilled 9. Finely chopped 10. Geeks 11. Merriment 12. Until (2,2) 13. Dog restraints 14. Frozen mass 15. Nearly identical 16. Number of spider’s legs 23. Help (criminal) 25. Miserly 27. Spirit contact board 28. Exertions 30. Sticky sweets 31. Wife’s parent (2-3) 32. Describe 34. Together 35. Scrounge 37. Small barrel 38. Ups and … 39. Fictional spy, … Bond 40. Negative adverb 45. Gazes fixedly 47. Chalice 48. Entail 49. Unspoilt paradise 51. Pulling 53. Liquefied petroleum gas (1,1,1) 54. Coves 55. Morally declines 57. California’s … Francisco 59. Unfamiliar people 60. Dress-protectors 61. Gambling hub, … Vegas 63. Facilitates 64. Submits resume 65. Bites 67. Factory hands 68. Insistent 69. List (articles) 74. Aperture in door 79. Unsatisfied longing 81. Made of timber 83. Widespread 84. Details, … and outs 86. Little devil 87. Menageries 89. Colourful garden plants 90. Blasting material (1,1,1) 91. Defeat in ballot 92. Craziest 94. Bordering with shrubs 96. Overthrows 98. European coins 101. Whinny 103. Show (to seat) 106. Infidel 107. Pale 109. Hair styling product 111. Sideways 112. Basements 113. Horse breeding farm 115. Quay 116. Earliest 117. Obsessive collector 120. Settee 121. Older of two 122. ESP, sixth … 123. French pancake 124. Geological division 125. Grim 127. Banish from own
country 128. Roman robes 130. … and nays 131. Abandoned 133. Unchanged (2,2) 134. Concludes
When you’ve solved the crossword, the letters on the shaded squares, reading left to right, top to bottom, spell a mystery word or phrase.
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