THIS WEEK’S BIG CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1. Spoke sharply to, ... at 6. Speed trap device 10. Charitable benefactor 14. Bed-base cover 18. Of the pope 19. Direct (to specialist) 20. Currency, ... tender 21. Two-piece swimsuits 22. Edible molluscs 23. Shack 24. Criticised brutally 25. Suffocate 26. Country bumpkin 27. Electrical units 28. Majestic 30. Babbled 32. Paper hanky 35. Revolved 39. Element with the symbol O 42. Warm up (leftovers) 46. Loathing 48. Bigot 49. Long (for) 50. Smiled brightly 51. Disguise 53. Keyboard mistake 55. Pace 57. Lunacy 58. Fellows 60. USSR, Union of ... Socialist Republics 61. Tattooing fluids 63. Colorado ski town 64. Eventual 65. Corpulent 66. Hansel’s sibling 70. Uses scales 73. Look unblinkingly 74. Ramrod-straight 75. Families 76. Scissor-cuts 77. Hop, ... and jump 78. Brazil’s ... de Janeiro 79. Laboratories 80. Fabric 81. US bird emblem 83. Lightly colour 85. School of fish 86. Hold fast (to) 88. University compositions 91. Get points in game 93. Store’s merchandise 95. Gangway 97. Maidenhair or bracken 98. Rambled 99. Mayday signal (1,1,1) 100. Fetching task 101. Affectionate peck 103. Norway’s capital 107. Week divisions 109. Breathing disorder 110. Yellow part of eggs 111. Anaesthetised 112. Violet/blue 114. Recaps (4,2) 116. Salad stick 118. Honeycomb polish 121. Medieval stronghold 123. Cake tier 127. Brindled cat 129. Jewish pastor 131. Bulldozed 133. Swift 136. Naturally grown 137. Cause distress to 138. Cringe 139. Heroic (deed) 140. Genre 141. Ship’s floors 142. Highland musician 143. Harasses with questions 144. Mope 145. Did needlepoint 146. Protracted
DOWN
2. Din 3. Confidential 4. Saga 5. Destroys (hopes) 6. Display shelf 7. Laneway 8. Military force 9. Vacation hotel 10. Respectable 11. Of the mouth 12. Greek fruit 13. Nevada quickiedivorce city 14. Enormously 15. Regrettably 16. Insistent 17. Custard dessert, ... brulee 28. Shows (film) again 29. Fibbers 30. Prepared 31. Fingers and toes 33. Watching covertly, ... out 34. Put to work 36. Banded quartz 37. Reanimate 38. Great ages 40. Taking bone photos (1-6) 41. Slums 43. Residences 44. Gummed label 45. Belly 47. Religious images 52. Phantoms 54. Airy-fairy (3,2,3,3) 56. Tempt 58. Roughs up 59. Opiates 62. Relics 67. Sloped (ceiling) 68. American Indian dwelling 69. Stone overhang 70. Cowboy actor, John ... 71. Capri and Wight 72. Recreational interest 82. Weapons cache 84. Skimpy underwear (1-6) 86. Spray can 87. Moorland plant 89. Red blood cell deficiency 90. Glummest 92. Horde 94. Heaps (of) 96. Speech defects 97. Whiskers, ... hair 102. Easily 104. Beer 105. London’s ... Park 106. Vietnam/mongolia continent 108. Mature 113. Cooling pad 115. Signifying 117. Makes into law 119. Overjoyed 120. Ruins 122. Pivot 124. Consent 125. Venomous serpent 126. Pancake 128. Cluster 129. Soar 130. Rounded thermometer end 131. Refashion 132. Prescribed amount 134. Very dry 135. Venture