MEGA CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1. Two-sided (of garment)

6. Cavorted

10. Enlisters

15. Martial art, ... fu

18. Looking sulky

19. Moves restlessly

20. Cereal grain

22. Enclose

23. Alfresco (4-3)

24. Invented (saying)

25. Completed

26. Assuaged

28. Suspect’s excuse

30. New Year’s Eve (1,1,1)

31. Culpability

32. Tibetan cattle

33. Scottish isle

34. Mix together

35. Faithful (friend)

37. Fork spike

39. Sort

40. Absent without leave

42. Effortless

45. Initiated

48. Boozer

49. Topped (exams)

50. Third course

53. Radio frequency (1,1,1)

54. Factory

56. Blaze’s remnants

59. Parachute fabric

61. Fifth musical note

62. Large boat

63. Wrongdoing

64. Tent rope

65. Potter’s medium

66. Farmhouse cooker

68. Of land

69. It is (poetic) (‘3)

70. Without kids

71. Garden arthropod

72. Toxic insecticide (1,1,1)

73. Is conspicuous (6,3)

74. Bushranger, ... Kelly

76. Part of pelvis

78. Crime

80. Snapshot

81. Bribe

84. Virtuous

85. Shopping centres

87. Quibbler

89. Cummerbund

92. Accelerated

94. Coagulates

96. Sensitive (to substance)

97. Done deed, fait ...

98. Money rolls

100. Charitable person

101. Gallivants

104. Readjusts (clock)

105. Amongst

107. Blockbuster

108. Underlining

112. Thread (way)

113. Beautify

115. Attachment

117. Enervate

118. In disguise

120. Noah’s vessel

121. Weapons of war

123. Spiteful person

125. Triumph

126. Liberates

127. Profusion (of)

129. Sharp twinge

130. Arab body (1,1,1)

131. Muscle twitch

133. Filter

134. Meat & three ...

136. Circular reef

137. Location

140. The Reader actor, ... Fiennes

141. Go-ahead

142. Later movie versions

146. Slightly crazy

147. Severe defeat

148. Felt hats

152. Riffraff

154. ... Strauss jeans

155. Ignited

156. Clump

157. Madcap

159. Nonchalant

160. Bogus

162. Family dwelling

164. Army student

165. Court

167. Document, Magna ...

169. Grind down

171. Heart monitor (1,1,1)

173. Kimono-clad hostess

174. Bitterness

175. Bowed

177. Water boilers

178. Held royal office

179. Haifa native

180. Stallion

181. Unpolished

182. Lodges

183. Croakiness

DOWN

1. Leaf scraper

2. Painter, Leonardo da ...

3. More advanced

4. Dark-haired woman

5. Kuwaiti rulers

6. Hindu temple

7. Slanderous claims

8. Skinflint

9. Offset (expenses)

10. Half-diameters

11. Believable

12. Unseals (bottle)

13. Black timber

14. Dispatch

16. Beneath

17. Handy implement

20. Ember

21. Fishing spools

27. Beholders

29. Principal performer (7,5)

35. Shocking ordeal

36. American air force (1,1,1,1)

38. Conceptions

41. Peculiarly

43. Bank machines (1,1,2)

44. Sloops

46. Canterbury prelate

47. Refilled (6,2)

51. Endorse

52. Betrothal

55. Unhatched lice

56. Flight cost

57. Abhorred

58. Beef cut

60. Christmas

67. Lawsuits

69. Defensible

72. Unsuspecting mugs

75. Feats

77. Tailless ape

79. Citizens of France

82. Minority community

83. Opponents

86. Aids (felon)

88. Intended

90. Fit ... fiddle (2,1)

91. Owns

92. Queen’s Counsels (1,2)

93. Judo level

94. Concert tour booking

95. TV screen type (1,1,1)

98. Strands

99. Expressionless

102. Cyberspace personas

103. Smooth

104. Joints inflammation

106. Two dozen (6-4)

108. Earthquake expert

109. Renounces

110. Emulate

111. Constant traveller

114. Round-backed whale

116. Attacked suddenly

119. Filth

122. Explain to

124. Continent

125. Vacillates

128. ... Hepburn

130. Self-possession

132. Precipice

135. Swami

138. Pit-face workers (4,6)

139. Leaving south

141. Apollo program agency

143. Mould in relief

144. From the menu (1,2,5)

145. Optional (surgery)

149. And so on (2,6)

150. Elderly spinsters (3,5)

151. Ancient Mexicans

153. Cringe

158. African republic

161. Firmer

163. Deserves

166. Hog sounds

168. Rollerblading venues

170. Celebrity, ... Winfrey

172. S American nation

173. Tern relative

176. Lairs

“BEAUTY IS THAT WHICH IS SIMULTANEOUSLY ATTRACTIVE AND SUBLIME.”

FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL