THIS WEEK’S BIG CROSSWORD

The Holiday, … Black ACROSS 1. 4. 7. 9. 13. 16. 17. Star Warning Decorate Short Julia Gadget, Briefly of Roberts golf summarise romcom device sign with stroke movie, frosting

Eat … Love 19. 20. 25. 26. One-way, Sibling alike Round Merges (9,4) root who … vegetable is ticket exactly

27. 28. 30. 31. Duty Lost Big Actor hairy colour schedule who spider plays Marshall in How I Met Your Mother, Jason …

35. 34. 36. 37. Eat Greek Front Domestic at part a underworld restaurant, violence of a ship … out campaigner, … Batty 39. 41. 44. Growling Backward Perfume, … flow de cologne

46. 48. 49. Be Splash Daring off target male over movie stand-ins

52. 53. Soothe, Trudge through … the pain water 54. 58. Spoken, Biggest, ... … size permission 59. Backpackers’ accommodation 62. Term of farewell 63. Diaper 65. Lopsided, off-centre 67. Broadcast

68. Metal fastenings 69. Adversary 71. Thawed

73. Cyclist’s headwear 74. Distances across 76. Board game, … chequers 77. Generate, … electricity 78. Jeer during a speech 80. Ornamental breastpin 82. All the same (4,2) 84. Radio and TV, mass … 85. Lend a hand 87. Arithmetic problem 88. Red hair-colouring 90. Mother’s brother, eg 91. Area plan

93. Written assignments 96. Fumbled, … the ball 97. Gossip, tittle … 100. Forearm bone 102. Disconnect 104. Added figures (6,2) 106. Agatha Christie novel,

And Then There Were … 108. Musical symbol, treble …

111. Took into custody 112. Exploit

114. Be mistaken 115. Retail outlet, shop 118. Grizzly animal 119. Lazily

120. Picture border 122. Utter sound 124. Searched through waste

125. Poplars or maples, eg 127. Begin again after a break

129. Indian hero, Mahatma … 132. Threefold, … time 133. Inefficient control 136. Eye membrane 137. Streamlined, smooth and … 138. Chopped into cubes 139. Band of criminals 140. Bodywork knock 141. Make a request 142. Produces eggs 143. Extreme pleasure

DOWN

1. Legally fair

2. Heart Of Darkness author, Joseph … 3. Demon

4. Leaving out 5. Trendy, a la … 6. Convent resident 8. Coir flooring, … matting 9. Placed, … in position 10. Threesome 11. Emotional strains 12. Local council levies 14. Washes out soap 15. High-pitched barks 16. Adhesives

18. Less tainted 21. Regard, hold in high … 22. Pulsates 23. Aromatic evergreen shrub 24. Conclude, … the proceedings (4,2) 28. Region’s animal life 29. University qualification 32. Small beard

33. Green citrus fruits 38. Arm or leg

40. Male goat

42. Major artery

43. Small mugs 44. Absorbent cotton pad 45. TV commercial, eg 47. Tasmanian channel, Bass …

48. Go back and forth (3-3) 50. Emotional instability 51. Close by

55. Literary critics, book …

56. Colony insect 57. Eyelid hair

59. Sewn edges

60. Be in debt

61. Skin artist

64. Movie, The … Brief

66. Take a seat (3,4) 69. Kingdom

70. Scales star sign 72. Winning tennis serve 75. Spider’s trap 78. Weeding tools

79. A.A. Milne donkey character 80. Nickname for a movie about a real person 81. Come to a stop 83. Bashful 86. Expanse of salt water 87. Sealed

89. Mexican farewell, … amigo!

90. Cow’s milk sac 92. Walk laboriously 94. Sharp humour 95. Political adviser 98. Sweet pastry, jam … 99. Shine 101. Hooligans 103. Considers, … to be 105. Supposed 106. Hospital workers 107. Las Vegas’ US State 109. NRL, National Rugby … 110. Kitchen cooler 111. Legendary lost city 113. Settles the bill in advance 116. Alternative possibility, another … 117. London precinct, … Court 120. Cooked in fat 121. Signal receiver 123. Ships’ undersides 125. Novel, The … Musketeers

126. Antlered deer

128. Austin Powers star, … Myers

130. Tennis champion, … Murray

131. The Holiday co-star of 1. Across, … Winslet 134. Coaster, beer … 135. Former Spice Girl, … B