MEGA CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1. Multiplication & division 6. Lengthens

10. Great happiness 15. Tattoos

18. Earl Grey sachets (3,4) 19. Treatment 20. Crooked 22. Squalidness

23. Plant cut for hay 24. Soothes (fears) 25. Enquire intrusively 26. Wily

28. Readjusted

30. Entirely 31. Nationality of Colin Farrell 32. Veal shank dish, ... bucco 33. Curse

34. Pretend

35. Milled (timber)

37. Gain (respect) 39. Illuminated

40. Tulle skirt 42. Numbers game 45. Eternal

48. Hurt

49. Hopping parasite 50. Socially exclusive 53. Wipe (brow) 54. Propelled

56. Washing machine setting 59. Lessened, ... off 61. Cooktop

62. Slugs

63. Gran

64. Gorilla 65. Big-screen movie format 66. International Olympic Committee (1,1,1) 68. Seedless citrus (5,6) 69. Masticated cow food 70. Passes across (5,4) 71. Repatriate under warrant 72. Cuban hero, ... Guevara 73. Origin 74. Fashionable, ... mode (1,2) 76. Document attachments 78. Part exchange (5-2) 80. Robin Hood & ... Tuck 81. Nutriments 84. Shouted

85. Per annum 87. Undergo change 89. Over-gratify 92. Available hotel rooms 94. Barn-laid produce 96. Wield (sword)

97. Deletions

98. Barber’s tool

100. Large fruit bat (6,3) 101. Protective sportswear 104. Sarajevo is there 105. Tendons 107. Thailand’s neighbour 108. Demonstrated (against) 112. Exultant yell 113. Cappuccino expert 115. Window shelters 117. Jet-bath

118. Reshape 120. Computer key

121. Rebel

123. Podgiest

125. Secreted

126. Job applicant

127. Evita, ... Peron 129. Astound

130. Top pilot 131. Mountain

133. Absent

134. Write, ... down

136. Fire fragment

137. Petrol containers 140. Talons

141. Lower chin 142. Expressed

146. Back deformity

147. Dork

148. Stiff

152. Pleadingly, on bended ... 154. Common-walled suburban house

155. Old witch

156. Not often, hardly ... 157. Unchanged (2,2) 159. Resource

160. Stage drama

162. Surf froth

164. Welsh actor, Rhys ... 165. Asphalt

167. Actress, ... Witherspoon 169. Romantic poet, Lord ... 171. Cloth flap

173. Caesar’s killer, Marcus ... 174. Pen names 175. Occupied (4,2) 177. Diminishes, ... up 178. Summer footwear 179. Four-stringed instrument 180. Xmas

181. Onlookers

182. Guided 183. Uncertainly

DOWN

1. New Testament book 2. Entomb 3. Substance

4. Roofs with straw 5. Metal links 6. Treatises 7. Horseplay

8. Lax

9. Indian guitars

10. Baby kangaroos 11. Conceited 12. Government supporter 13. Principle 14. Immature lice

16. First Greek letter 17. Reciting

20. Practice rifle cartridges 21. Stockings fibre 27. Person in their nineties 29. Realtors (6,6)

35. Dublin Bay prawns 36. Distortion

38. English soccer team, ... Villa 41. Anxious

43. Engrave

44. Offer more than

46. Basic

47. Sanctioned

51. Signify

52. Eagerness 55. Windmill blade

56. Army hairstyle (4,3) 57. Coughing ailment 58. Underhand avoidance 60. Tip of triangle

67. Pills & ointments outlet 69. Stopping

72. Shirt wristbands

75. PAs

77. Annuls

79. Flattery 82. Pragmatist

83. Puts behind bars 86. Uncles & ...

88. Sharp (pain)

90. Gone by

91. Wane

92. TV transmission band (1,1,1)

93. Male or female

94. Sixth sense (1,1,1) 95. Gallivant (about)

98. Dices (vegetables) 99. Imaginary sea creature 102. Track competitor 103. Impassive individual

104. Child minder (4-6) 106. Methodical 108. Co-ventures 109. Unconventional 110. Lavatories

111. Ballet school (5,7) 114. Scarcity

116. US Midwest state 119. Square root of 49 122. Kind

124. Come ... or high water 125. Commandeer 128. Constantly

130. Living quarters

132. Stop momentarily 135. Ribbon

138. Smother

139. Fishing bird 141. Delights

143. Cardiac organs 144. Hired gun 145. Alienate

149. Lucky charms

150. Try out (car) (4-4) 151. Quicken 153. Cathedral, ... Dame 158. Infuse

161. Charters

163. Inept

166. Motor vehicles 168. College tests

170. Harsh

172. Accept (recommendation) 173. Splotch

176. Tactic

“IT’S NOT THE STRENGTH OF THE BODY THAT COUNTS, BUT THE STRENGTH OF THE SPIRIT.” J.R.R. TOLKIEN