THIS WEEK’S BIG CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1. Dwelling 4. Strauss waltz, The Blue … 8. Warns, … to danger 12. Star of Giant, … Dean 16. Bird of prey, wedge-tailed … 18. Boxing category 19. In an argumentative way 21. Collarbone 23. Semi-transparent fabric 24. Bushy-tailed animal 26. Margin, the … of the page 28. Movie, …, Where’s My Car? 31. Encouraged, … on 32. Non-amateur (abbrev) 34. Indian yoghurt and mint side dish 35. Kept for later 36. Remote-controlled aircraft 37. Longest river in Europe 38. Name for grandma 39. Large body of soldiers 41. Observed, had … 44. European expanse of water, … Sea 45. Snuggles cosily 49. Profile picture, eg, online … 51. Muslim woman’s headscarf 53. Yell with delight 54. Number in a dozen 56. Star of Giant, … Taylor 57. Sound reflections 59. Spherical objects 60. Coloured part of the eye 62. Notion, thought 63. Laboratory glass vial, test …
64. Printing re-correction 65. Sound-detecting organs
67. Nevada city 70. Leave, … the stage 73. Nerve cell 75. Clothes cupboards 76. Take part (4,2) 77. Australian women’s basketball team 78. Barter, exchange 79. Beeped, … his horn 80. Official bank money orders 84. Private teachers 85. Assuage, … the pain 88. Employer or manager 90. 10-cent pieces, eg 92. Accustoms baby to solid food
93. Duckling’s dad 94. Final amount, grand … 96. Specially chosen group 97. Former name of Tokyo 99. Provide a warrant or guarantee, … for 100. Italian meat sauce 103. Saintly, sacred 105. Storyteller 107. Mexican corn chip 108. Shopkeeper, trader 109. Worldly, cultured 111. Peevish, irritable nature 112. Horoscope ram 113. Rubber wheel surrounds 114. Happening annually, a … event
115. Order, edict 116. Stiff components of a corset
DOWN
2. Thorny climber with bright flowers 3. Loathed, … him intensely 4. Search for water 5. Achieved a brilliant result, … it (slang) 6. Act nicely, … yourself 7. Retract claim, … your words 8. Priest’s robe 9. Stared lasciviously, … at 10. Depended, … on 11. Soft sounds of relief, eg 13. From Brazil or Peru, South … 14. Eradication, complete removal 15. Plants such as golden wattle 17. Pain in muscles 20. Long jetty 22. Type of beer 25. Somewhat, … upset 26. Small whirlpool 27. Low moan of pain 29. Jamaican tangelos 30. Divisions of geological time 32. Animal enclosures 33. Elliptic in shape 39. Feel sore all over 40. Military rank 42. Filament-like Asian mushroom variety 43. Scruff of the neck 44. Type of pumpkin 46. Capital of Scotland 47. Top of baby’s bottle 48. Good enough to be voted in
50. Occupants, dwellers 52. Awards, … a title on him 53. Most bleached, the … sheets
55. VCR, … cassette recorder 58. Trousers with many pockets, … pants 59. Interfere, stick your … in 61. Fix in a position, … in place 66. Self-penned life story 68. Old-fashioned swear word 69. Baghdad’s country 71. US state whose capital is Boise 72. Regrettably, alas 74. Knot, swelling 76. Elton John hit, Bennie And The … 80. Metallic bang 81. Different, wear something … 82. Disconnect, … the cables 83. Tall military cap with a badge 86. Spanish for “friend” 87. Water pitcher 88. Large number, a … of beauties 89. Meat pie condiment 90. From Beijing, eg 91. Calming drug 94. Stocky, heavily built 95. Milk sugar 98. Floor of a ship 101. War fleet of galleons, Spanish … 102. Illusory 103. Croaky, a … voice 104. Cavalry soldier 106. Showery, … day 108. Sweetcorn crop 110. Parched, arid 111. Gave nourishment to