THIS WEEK’S BIG CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1. Non-batting cricketer 4. Dapper 8. Watched secretly 11. Location of a movie (4,3) 16. Mistake 18. Logopedics (6,7) 19. Idealism

21. Doesn’t look after 23. Cook in the oven 24. Of unsound mind 26. Single item 28. Scandinavian capital 31. Bed cover

32. Weird, strange 34. Handled roughly 35. Continued pain 36. Australian singer, Peter ...

37. Not suitable 38. Liquid food 40. Engrave on metal 42. Sheltered side of land or a ship 43. Transported 47. Laughing wild carnivores 48. Pink-coloured 50. Medieval slave 53. Patriotic song

54. Ex- Neighbours actress turned pop star 56. Winged heavenly spirit 57. Coquettish

60. Trial period

61. Caper or prance about 64. Corpulent

65. Tasks

67. Grisly

70. Patricia Cornwell’s fictional heroine,

... Scarpetta 71. Jumping parasite 72. Wraps warmly 73. Sunrise direction 74. Fool

76. Paper quantity 79. Edges of skirts or dresses

81. Beam of light

83. More noisy

85. Good manners 86. Extra performance

87. In the thick of 88. Ticked over

(of an engine) 89. Water in the atmosphere 90. Grows old 93. Scorch, brand 95. 1980s American soap opera 96. Biblical garden 99. Painting, sculpture, for example

100. Ocean’s Thirteen actor, ... Garcia 102. Snooker sticks 104. Lengthwise 105. Greek author of fables

106. Small children

108. Hit, thump

109. Flow away

111. Run away with a view to marriage

113. Has, possesses 116. Espies

118. Wooden wind instrument played in schools

120. On a ship (2,3)

121. Star, Daniel ... (3-5) 122. Suggestion of guilt 124. Skilled woodworkers 125. Indian long-necked lute 126. Eventually arrived or finished (5,2) 127. Exalted 128. Artificial silk 129. Insects with hard wing-cases

DOWN

1. Fabric with an open mesh 2. Escape door (9,4) 3. Wane, abate

5. Star, ... Cotillard 6. Account of an event 7. Score in rugby 8. Propitiatory gift 9. Quicker than allegro 10. Famous Parisian tower 12. Spotted animals 13. Get lost! (5,4,4) 14. Faint-heartedly 15. Tony Danza sitcom,

... The Boss? 17. Decorated (a cake) 20. Settled a bill 22. Behave towards 25. First name at birth of Buzz Aldrin 26. Location of

Salt Lake City 27. House of ice

29. Less dangerous 30. Plumps (for) 32. Exclusively 33. Union fees 39. Odour 40. Portable icebox 41. Bass stringed instrument 44. Enthusiastic, keen 45. Dusting powder 46. Containing nothing, vacant 48. Manufacturers’ agents

49. Fairy-tale character with seven little friends (4,5) 51. Focal point of an earthquake

52. Tooth of a wolf 55. Outburst 58. Cowboy rope 59. Lightweight silk netting, often starched 62. Crime of causing fire 63. Aircraft location system 65. Jam container 66. Lady’s undergarment 68. Singular

69. Word of affirmation 74. Bee Gees hit, 75. Corrosive liquid (9,4) 77. Call forth

78. Huge, whopping 79. Successor 80. Cantaloupe or honeydew, eg 81. Revolving item in a casino (8,5) 82. Leavening agent 84. Infrequent

86. Gentle whirlpool 91. Sigh with pain

92. Herb used in stuffing 93. Plunge a knife into 94. Feature of a church 97. Controlled a vehicle 98. International security bloc (inits) 100. Orangutans, chimpanzees etc 101. Duvet

103. Darted, rushed 106. Revealing (sign) 107. Obsequious, slavish 110. Opposite of ‘boom’ in the economic cycle 112. Fights against

114. Ivanhoe author,

Sir ... Scott 115. Triangular savoury pastry

116. Egypt’s desert 117. Arctic language family, linked with Aleut 119. Shout, rave 121. Formal combat 123. Louse’s egg 124. Automobile