MEGA CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1. Cultivated area

6. Conjure up

10. Huge election wins

15. Apple MP3 player

18. Persuaded

19. Find small faults

20. Verve

22. Acting wordlessly

23. Elusive

24. Raid

25. Abdominal muscles

26. Witch’s spell

28. Cater to

30. Negotiable (1,1,1)

31. Extremist

32. Paradise garden

33. Concrete jungle

34. Fish commercially

35. Stir-fry pans

37. Lofty

39. Body scan (1,1,1)

40. Walk offstage

42. Goods trucks

45. Earphones

48. Feel angry

49. Puffed

50. Justified 53. Garbage tin

54. Scottish child

56. Lodges (with)

59. TV show music, ... song

61. Outgoing flow, ... tide

62. Honest

63. Purring animal

64. Nought

65. Lash

66. Typist’s injury (1,1,1)

68. Grew back (of forest)

69. Understand

70. Leftover bit

71. Guise

72. Brazil’s ... Paulo

73. Pranks

74. U-boat

76. Gold ore lumps

78. Fetuses

80. Bird’s perch

81. Informers 84. Ostracise

85. Dirty & worn

87. Chirping lizards

89. Information

92. Kingston natives

94. Very dark

96. Colorado’s neighbour

97. Encode

98. Stink

100. Fly off the handle, go ...

101. Maintained

104. Knights’ chargers

105. Ail

107. Retrieve

108. Bruise

112. More senior

113. Note

115. Boost

117. ... chi (1’2)

118. Most solitary

120. Director, ... Howard 121. Erase

123. The same

125. Text (1,1,1)

126. Uncooperative

127. Lout

129. Butchery

130. The O of SOS

131. Hospital ward (1,1,1)

133. Block of bread

134. Hamburger, Big ...

136. Peeress’ crown

137. Spaghetti or lasagne

140. Whole

141. Furrow

142. Milk sugar

146. Baghdad is there

147. Floppy

148. Compensate for

152. Tennis barriers

154. Norwegian capital

155. Function

156. Wild feline

157. Discontinue suckling

159. Neckerchief

160. WWII fascist

162. Cougar

164. Shopping mall

165. Perish

167. Bundle

169. Eagle’s home

171. Tibetan ox

173. Dimpled

174. Hand creams

175. Strainers

177. Curved lines

178. Easily broken

179. Beginning of the day

180. Become apparent to, ... on

181. Tediously

182. Hindu temples

183. Melodramatic (4,3,3)

DOWN

1. ... & proper

2. Nuclear weapon (1-4)

3. Disembarked

4. Point out

5. Friendlier

6. Undeniably

7. Achievement

8. Unbeatably

9. ... Hemingway

10. Sooner or ...

11. Boned cutlet

12. Japanese meat dish

13. Welsh poet, ... Thomas

14. Not mad

16. Grand or upright

17. State of neglect

20. Gradually develop

21. Beautify

27. Personal advantage (4-8)

29. Onlookers

35. Composer, Andrew Lloyd ...

36. Genghis ...

38. Garret

41. Propel

43. Axe-like cutter

44. Melancholy (mood)

46. Residential units

47. Calming (of news)

51. Regretfully

52. Oppresses

55. Uncommon

56. Template

57. Consumed (3,2)

58. Infamy

60. Conceal

67. Resolve (4,3)

69. Bout

72. Fathered

75. Burly

77. Sew

79. Violating (rules)

82. Pamphlet

83. Approaches boldly

86. Quickly

88. Natural pillow filling

90. Gorilla or chimpanzee

91. Perfectly all right (1-1,1)

92. Swift punch

93. Mildly sweet (champagne)

94. Vex

95. Nap

98. Ship’s renovation

99. Ledger items

102. Long in the tooth

103. Shroud of ...

104. Department store junkie

106. Perceptible

108. Festivities

109. Hectic

110. Cool leaf beverage (4,3)

111. Staged Christmas story (8,4)

114. Thin dagger

116. Raved about

119. Mississippi port, St ...

122. Travelling concert

124. 1920s design style, Art ...

125. Biblical strongman

128. Flooring strip

130. Desert waterholes

132. Policy reversal (1-4)

135. Young male horse

138. Clearing (the accused)

139. Rang

141. Increased

143. Financial holdings

144. Hither & thither (2,3,3)

145. Computer programs

149. Facilitate

150. Reimpose (authority)

151. Moved from side to side

153. Downy duck

158. Awry

161. Slumbering

163. Army eateries

166. Bring upon oneself

168. Make as one

170. Beatle, ... Starr

172. Cease! (nautical)

173. Rush

176. Break sharply

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