THIS WEEK’S BIG CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1. Device used to secure a carpet on a flight of steps (5-3) 5. Star of As Good As It Gets, … Nicholson 8. Infrequent occurrence 11. Strike with a sharp blow 16. Cruel fairytale giants 17. Disclaim, disown 19. Knotty problem 20. Type of beer 21. Starts golf game, … off 22. Checked Scottish cloth 23. Frozen polar region (3,3) 25. Plentiful 27. Mythical giant 30. Very noisy, … applause 31. Participant in a game 32. Outer skin of a coconut 33. Frolics, plays 37. Sonorous 41. Cheapens, lowers the value of 42. Nonsense! 44. Unit of language 45. Defined periods in history 46. Des Moines’ US State 47. Avid, eager 48. Meat jelly 50. Having the same sound, … slang 51. Member of the clergy 54. Flow out like the tide 56. Rowing blade 57. Put out plates, … the table 59. Supermarket, store 61. Puts in peril 63. Stir things up 66. Self-satisfied 68. Strong coconut fibre 69. Indian flatbread 70. Is suspicious, has doubts 73. Non-ordained 75. Flat, apartment 76. Sport, … kwondo 78. Toni Collette movie, In … Shoes 79. Tyrannical 80. Money squanderer 82. Enraged, angry 84. Debt reminders (abbrev) 85. Cajole, persuade 87. Curse someone, … them to hell 89. Porridge grains 91. Common dental problem (5,5) 94. Hay-fever symptoms 96. Gives a right to 99. Make void, … marriage 101. Grows old 102. George Orwell novel, … Farm
103. Mazes 106. Aromatic seeds used in cooking 108. In a very detailed manner, examined the clues … 110. Dual sound, in … 111. Baby’s rocking crib 112. After-bath dusting powder 115. Mean, spiteful 116. Took out of action, … the racehorse 117. Eradicate, … corruption (4,3) 118. Banish from home country, send into … 119. Shares the same view 120. Road, thoroughfare 121. Novel, Around The World In Eighty … 122. Taking power by force
DOWN
1. Fast road vehicle (6,3) 2. Most breezy 3. Overly hasty, a … move 4. Bits and pieces (4,3,4) 6. Bold pioneer 7. Country surrounded by Iraq and Saudi Arabia 8. Flush, blush 9. Trustworthy, dependable 10. Scottish berets 12. As Good As It Gets co-star of 5. Across, … Hunt 13. Body of water between Greece and Turkey (6,3) 14. Form of martial art 15. Talked rapidly and excitably 18. Distant ringed planet 24. Sleeps in a tent 26. Fertiliser made from bird droppings 28. Equal pressure line on weather maps 29. Local authority regulation 32. Ghastly 34. Pulped, … potato 35. Church lecture 36. Fill up, … your glasses 38. Make-up tool, … curler 39. Admitted liability (5,2) 40. Pure-bred racehorses 41. Twelfth month (abbrev) 42. Marsh, swamp 43. Tibetan Buddhist monk 46. Opposite, in … proportions 49. Hinder, … progress 52. People from Baghdad, eg 53. Railway vehicle 55. Natural furniture polish 56. Old-time stable attendant 58. Muslim religious leaders 60. French-speaking Caribbean country 62. Emirates capital, … Dhabi 64. Sightseeing holidaymaker 65. Praise achievements, pay … to 67. Gumboots 69. New army recruits, eg 71. Light-sensitive layer of the eye 72. Stockholm is there 74. Fail to play by the rules 77. Consumer organisation (1,1,1,1) 80. En route, along the … 81. Vivid blue stone, lapis … 82. Details, all the … and outs 83. Inflamed throat condition 86. Desert waterhole 88. State of sadness 90. Delicate colours 92. Planner, event … 93. Sending messages via computer 95. Happen afterwards, chaos will … 97. Traditional picnic item surrounded with sausage mince and fried (6,3) 98. July 14 in France, … Day 100. Energetic and forceful person 104. African language 105. Mamma Mia! star, … Seyfried 106. Acknowledgement 107. Anchored, … the boat 109. Song, Parsley, Sage, Rosemary And … 113. Have a common boundary with 114. Fifty-two weeks