MEGA CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1. Soccer defender
6. False courage 10. Palatably
15. Bump off (2,2) 18. Applause
19. Silent film star, Charlie ... 20. Furtive glance 22. Surgical support 23. Caribbean island
24. Evil giantess 25. Travelling salesman 26. Sibling’s daughter 28. Even further delayed 30. His, hers & ... 31. Marshal’s reinforcements 32. Parched
33. Cease
34. Huge quantity (of) 35. Spicy lentil dish 37. Informers
39. Intend
40. Tortilla snack
42. Coral banks
45. Most uptight
48. Sacred anthem 49. Muslim chieftain 50. Countless
53. Baby seal
54. 0.2390 calories 56. Alpha, beta, gamma, ... 59. Lad or lassie
61. End of pen
62. Jolly laugh (2,2) 63. Snub-nosed dog
64. 20 cwt 65. Thousandth of a kilo 66. Pseudonym, ... de plume 68. Corpse stiffness (5,6) 69. Green vegetable 70. Public services
71. Bitter family feuds 72. Vinyl material (1,1,1) 73. Passable
74. Football hoodlum 76. Movie catchphrase 78. Shellfish 80. Composure 81. Brightly
84. Job attitude, work ... 85. Crises 87. Introduced gradually, ... in 89. Excavates
92. Official permission 94. Peruse
96. Structure 97. Army bugle call 98. Battery segment 100. Local law
101. Walk in water
104. Strut down catwalk 105. Keen on (4,2) 107. Rationale
108. Induces
112. Pounced
113. Lewd
115. Military flying facility (3,4) 117. Zilch
118. Nominate again 120. Might 121. Skinniness 123. Indecipherable 125. Scottish outlaw, Rob ... 126. Innate wisdom (6,5) 127. Give nickname to 129. Insect stage
130. Rev (engine) 131. Admirer
133. Inside
134. Seed case
136. Now Myanmar 137. Broad valleys 140. Eventuated
141. Jotter
142. Not teary (3-4) 146. Non-metric measurement 147. Engrossed
148. Round building 152. Ascent 154. Hair-setting lotions 155. Major tech firm (1,1,1) 156. Decorated (cake) 157. Beers
159. Foyer 160. Otherwise, or ... 162. Singing pitch
164. Alpine song
165. The Feds (1,1,1) 167. Bamboo-eating mammal 169. Components 171. Laboratory
173. Felt hats 174. Parenthesis
175. Library patron
177. Greek Cupid
178. Head cold symptom 179. Retail more successfully than
180. Bad (loser) 181. Retrenchment
182. Snow vehicles
183. Civil
DOWN
1. Deities
2. Sprightly 3. Self-obsessed people 4. Strategists 5. German river 6. Sausage
7. Size of audience 8. Add-on
9. Ready at short notice (2,4) 10. Propped
11. Auction hall 12. Faultless
13. Printed (music) 14. Jabbers
16. TV producer, ... Winfrey 17. Teat
20. Male heir to throne 21. Composition 27. Checkout point (4,8) 29. Prettily
35. Moisten
36. Upon 38. Consumed (3,2) 41. Jump the queue (3,2) 43. Unknown author 44. Balkan republic 46. Debated
47. Liking 51. Chubbiest
52. Greatly delighted 55. Entice
56. Salivated
57. Less convincing 58. Circus performer 60. Stockings 67. Cleaning stables, ... out 69. Clairvoyant 72. Pumped through tube 75. Rashers
77. Lacking vitality 79. Conduct
82. Sloped writing style 83. New York/Ontario falls 86. Throat lump, ... apple (4’1) 88. Drew back (in fear) 90. Fury
91. Spanish coast, Costa del ... 92. Managing director (1,1,1) 93. Before (poetic)
94. Use needle & thread 95. Plus
98. Actor, ... Firth 99. Legitimately 102. Frightened
103. Way in 104. Contemptuously 106. Mangy (4-6) 108. Individualised 109. Re-equipped 110. Chauffeurs 111. Gratification 114. Appropriately 116. Maddest
119. Door section 122. Riffraff 124. Executive jet 125. Killer, Jack the ... 128. French bathroom fixture 130. Exam score 132. Cathedral, ... Dame 135. Forgeries 138. Attainable 139. Especially tagging 141. Ring (of bells) 143. Counts (on) 144. Moulded in relief 145. Cairo native 149. Adventurous journeys 150. Form the basis of 151. Texan city
153. Judge
158. Piece of glowing coal 161. Stickers 163. Teachers
166. Sit moodily
168. Small & efficient 170. Entomb
172. WWII’s ... Hitler 173. Polar animal
176. Spool
“IMAGINATION IS EVERYTHING. IT IS THE PREVIEW OF LIFE’S COMING ATTRACTIONS.” ALBERT EINSTEIN