THIS WEEK’S BIG CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1. Hypnotic, attractive

5. Late Night star, … Thompson

8. Popular music style (3,3)

11. Drink that washes down another

16. Hand covering

17. Subject of a nation or state, Australian …

19. Bony framework of the chest

20. Elephant tusk material

21. Pubs, taverns

22. Desert rodent

23. Descend a cliff face on a rope

25. Jewish holiday in December

27. Moves like a ball

30. Confidential, … information

31. Flexible

32. Shine warmly

33. Bank advances

37. Timetable, train …

41. Evading, … capture

42. Deadly African snake (5,5)

44. Classification

45. White cooking fat

46. Lacking colour

47. Mouth the words along with a recorded song, lip …

48. Devotional hymn or song

50. Very cold region of Russia

51. First to leave, the … train

54. Colour, shade

56. Over the top (1,1,1)

57. Opposed to

59. Crashes into

61. Proposed, … a plan

63. Landscape

66. Dolly Parton movie, … To Five

68. Crockery collections, tea …

69. Brussels is there

70. Do away with, eliminate

73. Move very slowly, … ahead

75. Gull-like seabird

76. Electric particle

78. Environmental Impact Statement (1,1,1)

79. Staggering, … to his feet

80. Capital of Armenia

82. Cycling uniform fabric

84. Covered with fondant

85. Bemoans, … the day

87. Nothing, nil

89. Dash, flair

91. Fiendishness

94. Encrust with gems,

… the jacket

96. Delighted, over the moon

99. Supports one party in a dispute, takes …

101. Broad smile

102. Dazed lethargy

103. Surgeon or dermatologist, eg, medical …

106. Queensland or Victoria, eg

108. Obstinate

110. Self-centredness

111. Refill a battery,

… your phone

112. Pop concerts, eg

115. US term for “cars”

116. Allowing to borrow

117. Rejection, … of help

118. Pleasant cooking smell

119. Evaporating, … up

120. Fixate on, … over

121. Quiet period, a … in the fighting

122. Arrange, … a trip

DOWN

1. Enlarges, … the image

2. Adult (5-2)

3. Former spouses

4. Pixar superhero movie series, The …

6. Italian pizza cheese

7. Occurring every year, an … event

8. Stalk, pester

9. Make known to all, announce …

10. Muscat is there

12. Japanese poetry style

13. Sweden’s capital

14. Music style, … and blues

15. Nit-picking

18. Capsule, pill

24. Russian pancakes served with caviar

26. Late Night co-star of 5. Across, … Kaling

28. Unpleasant smells

29. Indian hand drums

32. Punters, those who wager

34. Saying further

35. Cold symptom

36. Accelerate, hurry

38. Pungent red pepper

39. Inscribing using acid

40. Top area of a shoe

41. Medicinal tree, slippery …

42. Woman’s undergarment

43. Illicitly help

46. Grubbier

49. Diminish, reduce

52. Room in the roof

53. Make happy, delight

55. Avoids, … punishment

56. David Bowie hit,

Space …

58. Tradesperson who

lays ceramic slabs

60. Clerical work (abbrev)

62. General Electric Company (1,1,1)

64. Greek wine style

65. From Tel Aviv, eg

67. Number of holes in a round of golf

69. Local council regulations

71. Asian mountain goats

72. Astonished

74. Cures

77. Folklore giant

80. Jim Carrey movie,

… Man

81. Most up-to-date, latest

82. Laugh out loud (1,1,1)

83. Oblong-shaped

86. Exhaust (3,2)

88. Polite, deferential

90. Upper chambers in the heart

92. Electrical wiring system

93. Nose passages

95. Ditches fiance,

… him at the altar

97. Fellow school pupil

98. UHT, … milk (4-4)

100. Atlantic and Pacific, eg

104. Libyan capital

105. Movie, Kong: Skull …

106. City blockades, eg

107. Lacking in principles

109. Foreman of a ship’s crew

113. Short and upturned, … nose

114. Spanish sparkling wine