MEGA CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1. Mentally scar 6. Evaporates (5,2)
10. Item owned 15. Advantage
18. Bike rider
19. Chaser
20. Drip noisily
22. Placid
23. Radiators
24. Mauve shrubs
25. Gents
26. Sister’s girl
28. Estuary
30. Ram’s mate
31. Fully satisfies
32. Makes slip-up
33. Small car 34. Tendency
35. WWII diarist, ... Frank 37. Panache
39. In time past, long ... 40. Clarified butter
42. Posse
45. Straddling
48. Burial vault
49. Destroy (hopes) 50. House of prostitution 53. Take to court 54. Military regime 56. Freshwater ducks 59. Inexpensive
61. Eggs
62. Bazaar
63. Spanish coast, Costa del ... 64. Spearheaded
65. Oil-rich Mideast nation 66. Smidgen
68. Tribal medicine man (5,6) 69. Digitally-encoded discs (1,2) 70. Screen tests 71. Memphis is there 72. Snooze
73. Sickness (3-6) 74. Olympic Games body (1,1,1) 76. Et cetera (3,2,2) 78. Biblical letter
80. More competent 81. Female deities 84. Ingenuous
85. African antelopes 87. Dismayed
89. Baby goats 92. Decorations 94. Matured 96. Consistent 97. Hiker’s pack
98. Sob
100. Branch out
101. Son of Adam & Eve 104. Listened to
105. The U of UN 107. Gallantly 108. Establishing (7,2)
112. Run up (debts) 113. Painter, Pablo ... 115. Tempts
117. Phone text (1,1,1) 118. Consensus
120. Install (carpet) 121. Left-winger
123. Dial (5,4)
125. Wail 126. Snap-taking
127. Health spring 129. Masterpiece, Mona ... 130. Apple seed
131. Globe
133. Subsided
134. Lower limb
136. UK icon, Princess ... 137. Local taxes
140. Lead
141. Computer key 142. Asserts
146. Terrible tsar
147. Train sound 148. Sudden urge 152. Abominable snowman 154. Queensland’s Great Barrier ...
155. Unrefined metal 156. Indolent
157. Niggles 159. Chocolate-flavoured coffee 160. Very black
162. Flans
164. Cinder
165. Apply gently
167. Give utterance to 169. Austere
171. 007 creator, ... Fleming 173. US southern beauties 174. Throat tissue
175. Tree stems 177. Indulgent spree 178. Prohibited 179. Supplement 180. Wiry-haired dog, ... terrier 181. Basic
182. Refrains 183. Bitterness
DOWN
1. Lids
2. Blue shade 3. Predecessor
4. Livid
5. Ostracise 6. Procrastinate 7. Impenetrable 8. Fashion runway diva 9. Visits unannounced (4,2) 10. Danger 11. Unlawful occupier 12. Soonest
13. Relative by marriage (2-3) 14. Bites
16. Sour fruit 17. Perceives 20. Assurance 21. Atlantic or Pacific 27. Consolidating at one site 29. Bedtime attire 35. Prepared (3,3)
36. Back of neck
38. Slants
41. Receded
43. In addition 44. Regards smugly 46. Ragged & tattered 47. Inoculated with needle 51. Combatant 52. Badgering
55. Urban centre 56. Titillated
57. Waltz virtuoso, ... Rieu 58. Feeds from breast 60. Hither
67. Spotted (with light) 69. Altitude limit 72. Special skill 75. Doctrine 77. Veterans (3-6) 79. Deeply rooted
82. Most precious 83. Enters (5,2)
86. Grovel, ... oneself 88. Valuable quality 90. Skating on thin ... 91. Dine late
92. Quirky
93. Heavens
94. Alias (1,1,1)
95. ... out a living 98. Wishes for 99. Diplomats’ base 102. Crumples with the strain 103. Haulage vehicle 104. Frauds
106. Haughty 108. Oceania (5,7) 109. Double-dealer 110. Six-stringed instruments 111. Behavioural scientist 114. Absurd pretences 116. Bakery (4,4)
119. Gold brick
122. Toss (coin) 124. Ancient harp
125. Salad stick
128. Way in
130. Hesitate
132. Pesto ingredient 135. Determination 138. Inconveniences 139. Omissions
141. Jug
143. Agilely
144. Surgical cut
145. Grease actor, John ... 149. Timidness 150. Unfasten (coat) 151. Brightest star 153. Church senior 158. Warped
161. Snared 163. University compositions 166. Seaweed
168. In need of scratching 170. Wrath
172. Foot joint 173. Skeleton part
176. Piece of furniture
“WHATEVER YOU ARE, BE A GOOD ONE.”
ABRAHAM LINCOLN