Mega CASH WORD
MYSTERY CLUE
27ac & 62dn.
A well-known book title (9,7)
ACROSS
1 Reddish-brown metal (6)
4 Another name for
woodlouse (6)
8 Young deer (5)
11 Fully satisfied (5)
15 Lurk about stealthily (5)
16 Of considerable weight
and size (5)
17 ___ Anderton, Kiwi politician
who died in January 2018 (3)
18 Supreme ruler or monarch (9)
19 Hire for job (6)
21 Decorating cake with
topping (5)
23 Snuggle in comfortably (6) 24 Make duplicate of (4)
27 See Mystery Clue
29 Cod or snapper, eg (4) 31 Fashionably avant-garde (4) 32 Ingrained dirt (5)
35 Ridicules with satirical spoof (5,2)
37 Large New Zealand multinational dairy co-operative (8)
38 _____-lipped –
uncommunicative (5)
40 Stand for sale of goods
in market (5) 42 Surgical stitches ( 7)
44 See upper-right photo ( 7)
46 ___ down – identify precisely
or force to be specific (3)
47 In favour of (3)
48 Goads or provokes by
continual criticism ( 7)
49 Brief description accompanying illustration or photo ( 7)
50 Thick stuffed cushion
covering seat of chair (5)
52 Small just detectable
amount (5)
54 _____ Thomas, Kiwi radio
host on The Breeze (8)
56 Sport with bows and
arrows ( 7)
59 Round _____ – sports tournament where every competitor plays every other competitor (5)
60 Emit steady light without flame (4)
61 Open pastry filled with sweet or savoury mixture (4) 62 Form of indigestion (9) 65 Burrow of badger (4)
66 Involve as inevitable part (6) 67 Japanese screen made of rice paper and wooden frame (5)
68 New Zealand coastal and lowland native tree of genus Alectryon (6)
71 Formally got rid of (9)
72 Herb with bitter-tasting leaves (3)
73 Pale with shock or illness (5) 74 Highly venomous African snake (5)
75 Aggressively self-assertive (5) 76 Customs and conventions of society (5) 77 In spite of that (4,2)
78 Subsided in intensity (6)
DOWN
1 Warm and comfortable (4)
2 Drop straight down at
high speed ( 7)
3 Small exclamation of alarm (3)
5 Raising to higher position ( 7)
6 Point-scoring manoeuvre in
rugby (3)
7 Rearrange in new way (5)
8 Severe shortage of food
resulting in starvation (6)
9 New Zealand family comedy/drama TV series that is prequel to Outrageous Fortune (8)
10 Seasoned pork sausage
with red skin ( 7)
11 ____ point – subject you feel
touchy or angry about (4)
12 Making or adapting to fit
specific need exactly (9)
13 Gloomy and drab (5)
14 Nautical word used for
hailing (4)
20 Vegetables of onion family with long white bulb and overlapping leaves (5) 22 As joke and not intended seriously (2,3)
25 Forms into bent or curling shape (6)
26 People who are excessively conceited and selfabsorbed (8)
28 Deadlocked situation ( 7)
30 Plant stalks (5)
33 Have dinner at home, eg (3,2)
34 Mature into adult (4,2)
36 Dame _____ Marsh, late
Kiwi crime fiction writer (5)
37 Pointless or ineffectual (6)
39 Place of business for
white-collar workers (6)
41 See lower-left photo (8)
43 Thin slice of bacon (6)
45 Tropical flowering shrub
of verbena family ( 7)
46 Dried plum (5)
47 _____ out – decrease gradually before coming to end (5)
49 Long narrow waterway made
for boats or irrigation (5)
51 Above and _____ – in excess of expectations or need (6)
53 Royal _____ Centre – New Zealand marine birds wildlife centre on Otago Peninsula (9)
55 Code word representing letter T in radio communication (5)
57 ___ __ fine – leave very small
margin for error (3,2)
58 Perforated bowl used as
strainer in cookery (8)
60 Cotton fabric with coloured
checked pattern ( 7)
62 See Mystery Clue
63 Dishevelled in appearance (7)
64 Drinks with loud sucking
noises (6)
65 Skin covering top and back
of head (5)
67 _____ Hansen, New Zealand
All Blacks rugby coach (5)
68 Quality of musical or vocal
sound (4)
69 Feel sorry for (4)
70 ____ of hearing – slightly
deaf (4)
73 Dialectal word for yes (3)
74 Large disorderly crowd
of people (3)