MEGA CROSSWORD

“ONE WORD FREES US OF ALL THE WEIGHT AND PAIN OF LIFE: THAT WORD IS LOVE.”

SOPHOCLES

ACROSS

1. Joyful celebration

6. Jived

10. Range of known words

15. Ones & ...

18. Bellowing

19. Duke’s wife

20. Seem

22. Effluent pipes

23. Ricocheted

24. Deprive

25. Gene acid (1,1,1)

26. Sample

28. Songbirds

30. Wow!

31. Hindu teacher

32. Verbal exam

33. Committed perjury

34. 16th of pound

35. Plastic toy blocks

37. US Midwest state

39. Aegean or Caspian

40. Converge

42. Grate

45. TV aerial

48. Threesome

49. Bangkok cuisine

50. Tidiest

53. What?

54. Nuclear explosive (1-4)

56. Muscle cramp

59. Sacred effigies

61. Missing in action (1,1,1)

62. Scorch

63. Gas guzzler

64. Logger’s tool

65. Actor, ... Alda

66. Penpoint

68. Excellence

69. Which person?

70. Slackness

71. Moving stairway

72. Caviar

73. Fitter

74. Printing fluid

76. Lewd

78. S. American republic

80. For now, for the time ...

81. Marginalised

84. Strain

85. Annually

87. Embedded (in)

89. London nightclub area

92. Buckingham Palace sentries

94. Therapeutic baths

96. Unknot

97. Supply with water

98. Irishman

100. Prettiest

101. Rotters

104. Distinct thing

105. Residential (4-2)

107. Thaws

108. War hatchet (6-3)

112. Happen

113. Voracious fish

115. Fables

117. Vietnam’s Ho ... Minh City

118. Readers’ shop

120. Ultrahigh frequency (1,1,1)

121. Essential article

123. Contributed (7,2)

125. Toupee

126. Give housing to

127. Facial twitch

129. Wizard’s rod

130. In vogue, ... mode (1,2)

131. Tawdry newspaper

133. Imposition of tax

134. Unopened bloom

136. Below

137. Cordoned (off)

140. Greek oil fruit

141. Tiny

142. Azure (3,4)

146. Irritation

147. Herr & ...

148. Supervised

152. Construct

154. Mountain lion

155. Wrath

156. Norse god

157. Air duct

159. Alcoves

160. Stare

162. Rat relatives

164. Fashion flair

165. Map guide

167. Cylinders

169. Debatable matter

171. Male sheep

173. Unhurried (pace)

174. CT or MRI device

175. Contract killer (3,3)

177. Identical sibling

178. Dishonour

179. Go over again

180. Facet

181. Was condescending to

182. Wavers (on edge)

183. Owners

DOWN

1. Fast planes

2. Sear (meat)

3. Nation’s aviation jurisdiction

4. Immobility

5. Fixing pins

6. Greater

7. Beef broth (6,4)

8. Vaccinates

9. Cheat

10. Parish minister

11. Wood preservative

12. Infant’s basket

13. Love passionately

14. Bullock team harness

16. Chock

17. Add salt to

20. Pale beers

21. Furnaces

27. Dental cleansers

29. Governed

35. Rock growth

36. Laceration

38. Mayhem

41. Bequeath

43. Molecule part

44. Spud

46. IT, information ...

47. Proximity

51. Beset

52. Greatly delighted

55. Bulk

56. Race official

57. At an angle

58. Red Planet alien

60. Coral islets

67. Skin mark

69. Magazine review (5-2)

72. Dressing gowns

75. Large hawks

77. Edify

79. Disconcerting

82. Weirdest

83. Stimulate

86. Cease! (nautical)

88. Primitive aquatic plants

90. Lyrical verse

91. The O of KO

92. Congeal

93. Head louse egg

94. Just a minute, wait a ...

95. Plus

98. Joke-teller

99. Sitting lazily

102. Bill

103. Cross-stroke on letter

104. Most notably

106. Plunging headfirst

108. Pram (4,8)

109. Extracted (4,3)

110. Eluded

111. Injures by AC current

114. Leftover

116. French leader, ... Bonaparte

119. Recap (3,2)

122. Story

124. Patch up

125. Internet camera

128. Money co-op, ... union

130. Goodbye

132. Contraption

135. Twilight

138. Attainable

139. Unmanly

141. Broad

143. Native of Nairobi

144. Checked into hotel (6,2)

145. Steals limelight from

149. Artillery depots

150. In any place

151. Turns inside-out

153. Skew-whiff

158. Drifter

161. Agree

163. High altitude cloud

166. Proclamation

168. Whiskers

170. Establish (3,2)

172. Spanish friend

173. Halt

176. Loch ... Monster