MEGA CROSSWORD
“HOPE IS BEING ABLE TO SEE THAT THERE IS LIGHT DESPITE ALL OF THE DARKNESS.” DESMOND TUTU
ACROSS
1. Prospered
6. Photographing bones (1-6)
10. Quintessence
15. Verve
18. Beetroot colour
19. Paddocks
20. Discretion
22. Chain reaction, ... effect
23. Flat bun
24. Ribs
25. Scholar’s ... & gown
26. Hold (grudge)
28. Gate fastening
30. Webcast seminar, ... Talk
31. Cost
32. Yemen’s Gulf of ...
33. Blokes
34. Shaken
35. Floating ice sheet
37. Swedish car company
39. Body scan (1,1,1)
40. The Y of BYO
42. Pig fat
45. Negative (criticism)
48. Fragrant flower
49. Seethe
50. Ebbed
53. Fah, ..., lah
54. Rope throwing-hoop
56. Scatter
59. Thaws
61. Underwater vessel
62. Cordon ... cookery
63. Palestine Liberation Organisation (1,1,1)
64. Crack task force (1,1,1)
65. Dull crash
66. Chatter
68. PA sound box
69. Male child
70. Remotest
71. Chilli tortilla
72. Cut (lawn)
73. Cheap dancehall (5-4)
74. Through
76. From bygone days (3-4)
78. Book extract
80. Flood
81. Kitchen effluent
84. Predatory bird
85. Scruffy
87. Toys (with)
89. English princess
92. Vulgarity
94. As soon as possible (1,1,1,1)
96. Hot Indian curry
97. Declare again
98. District
100. Glitterati stalkers
101. Deck of cards
104. Celebrating
105. Respect
107. Money, filthy ...
108. Distinguished politicians 112. Spam, junk ...
113. Slimmest
115. Brought on
117. He or ...
118. True-to-life
120. Magician’s ... presto!
121. Physical double
123. Not in the middle (3-6) 125. Distress call (1,1,1)
126. Binding
127. Jet-bath
129. Former Soviet region
(1,1,1,1)
130. Grovel
131. Before (poetic)
133. Show of hands
134. Cry
136. Mature
137. Suit fabric
140. Stab
141. Just a minute, wait a ... 142. Inflicts
146. Comic, ... Idle
147. Watched
148. Quickens
152. Harvard’s rival
154. Astonish
155. LA, ... Angeles
156. Silent
157. Mishap exclamation 159. Newborn greyhound 160. Consequently
162. Singer/actress, ... Turner 164. Domain
165. Spain’s Costa del ...
167. Excel
169. Lead-in
171. Battery size (1,1,1)
173. Army hats
174. Fermentation sugar
175. Astronaut, ‘Buzz’ ...
177. Sudden attack
178. Kidnap victim
179. More lucid
180. Over-gratify
181. Attracts
182. Siblings
183. Sums up
DOWN
1. Absconded
2. 44th US president, Barack ...
3. Motionless
4. Royal title, Her Royal ...
5. Organ giver
6. Indecent (humour) (1-5)
7. Achievement
8. Shadowy
9. Bravely
10. Ordain by law
11. Leaflet
12. Aversion
13. Wipe out
14. Toddlers
16. Resident
17. Playfully bitten
20. Blab
21. Lebanese timber
27. Prehistoric animal, ... tiger (5-7)
29. Political refugee (6,6)
35. Ostentatious
36. Pledge
38. Fable writer
41. Russian mountains
43. Attaches
44. South African city
46. Traffic offences
47. Needed
51. Dearer
52. Society entrants
55. Woes
56. Railway shunting tracks
57. Reimburse
58. Exhaust (4,3)
60. Work well, ... one’s keep
67. Hong Kong port
69. Brutes
72. Press
75. Consumed (3,2)
77. Disproportion
79. Fainted
82. Firefighters’ water source
83. Yearly publications
86. Certify (accounts)
88. Hunting gun
90. Oxfam or MSF (1,1,1)
91. 24 December, Xmas ...
92. Policeman
93. Ceylon, ... Lanka
94. Rock band equipment
95. Curve
98. Jacob Zuma’s people
99. ... & dimes
102. N American tribesmen 103. Bushranger, Ned ...
104. Companionship
106. Thoughtful
108. Fortified
109. Female warriors
110. Fuel gas
111. Moulin Rouge actress (6,6) 114. Jumbled letter puzzles
116. Meataxes
119. Become liable for
122. Boat’s spine
124. Fronded plant
125. Strut down catwalk
128. Admission
130. Pop (balloon)
132. Behind the ... ball
135. Surety
138. Fenced-in areas
139. Hotel
141. Passable (2-2)
143. Whimpered
144. Went past (target)
145. Supports (cause)
149. Airmail correspondence 150. Coffee liqueur (3,5)
151. Desert wanderers
153. On the ocean (2,3)
158. Woven pigtail
161. Duo, Fred Astaire & Ginger
...
163. Brother’s daughters
166. Circular gasket (1-4)
168. Captures
170. Hiking holidays
172. Saudi natives
173. Edge
176. Tennis barriers