THIS WEEK’S BIG CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1. Atlantic or Pacific, eg 4. Spanish actor, … Bardem 8. Stringed musical instrument 12. Sudden outbreak,

… of robberies Correct

16. 18.

Red sauce (6,7) 19. Purple-flowering weed, Paterson’s Curse (9,4) 21. Mute, silent

23. The Birds star,

… Hedren 24. Manicure tool (4,4) 26. Rubs up the wrong way

28. Gear teeth 31. Heaped up, stacked 32. Statute, law 34. Furnish with 35. Repeated melody

36. Paper Moon actress, Tatum … (1’4)

37. Cut in two equal parts 38. Hard black wood 39. Enjoy yourself, have a … 41. Bottom of a boat 44. Early 007 actress, … Andress 45. Spread messily 49. Relatives by marriage (2-4) 51. Morsel of bread 53. Rope-making fibre 54. Sumptuous 56. Rising, in the … 57. Expense

59. Area of grass 60. Michael Hutchence’s band

62. Star Wars princess

63. Death In Venice actor, … Bogarde 64. Young elephant 65. Slippery with grease

67. I Love Lucy star,

… Arnaz

70. Spare tyre, … around the waist

73. High principles 75. Barber-related

76. Line of colour in the hair, eg 77. Paintbrush cleaner, eg (abbrev)

78. Aden is there

79. Mix up, jumble 80. Powerful businessmen 84. Commotion 85. Ancient Greek sculpture, Venus de … 88. Hit painfully,

… your toe

90. Baked ice cream and meringue dessert, … Alaska

92. Mrs Dalloway author, Virginia …

93. Indian yoghurt condiment

94. Make sense (3,2) 96. Well-informed 97. Cost, … for service 99. Drink, mineral … 100. Australian singer, Shannon … 103. Notebooks, jotters 105. Put in peril 107. Speak publicly 108. Leisure boats, cabin … 109. Large dinosaur, … rex 111. Doing actual work rather than at a theoretical level (2,3,8) 112. Church steeple 113. Lovers’ rendezvous 114. Game, … Questions 115. Eerie, uncanny 116. Australian actress, … Keddie

DOWN

2. Wide-ranging 3. Graceful horned animal 4. Boos, … the speaker 5. Winner of a battle 6. Explodes like a volcano 7. Shred, … up

8. Old video system (1,1,1) 9. Sloping type 10. Beatles hit, All My … 11. Unacceptable, it’s just … (3,2) 13. Spanish actress and wife of 4. Across, … Cruz 14. In time-honoured fashion, according to custom

15. Star Trek: The Next Generation actor, Patrick … 17. Correct and tasteful behaviour

20. Long dramatic movie 22. Cuban music and dance 25. Make laugh,

… the crowd 26. Much-loved actor 27. Retains, … hold of 29. Leered at

30. Look for 32. Healing plant, … vera 33. Norse thunder god

39. Brandenburg Concertos composer, J.S. …

40. Love Actually actress, … Linney

42. UK pop singer of Hold Me Close, David …

43. Air-bed

44. Using a key, … the door 46. Former Beatle, Paul … 47. One of Henry VIII’s wives, … Boleyn

48. Act of issuing from a source

50. Star Wars hero, Luke … 52. Robbers operating in lawless gangs 53. Rigidly

55. Metal, stainless … 58. Without tenants 59. Boy, youth

61. Shed tears, cry 66. Person who manipulates electoral boundaries to favour party

68. Sign up 69. Forbidden area,

… zone (2,2) 71. Confess

72. Outside acceptable bounds (6,3,4) 74. Stop, … the flow 76. Cold-shoulder 80. Nasty internet persecutor

81. End of a sleeve 82. Wicked giant 83. Hindu god 86. Representation, reflection

87. Marley & Me star, … Wilson 88. Timber-slicing tools 89. Absolute

90. Splits in two, forks 91. Gross income,

… before tax 94. Garments, … of clothing 95. Thrive, do well 98. Steve Carell comedy,

… Almighty

101. Deliberately vague

102. Plague insect

103. Hassle, nag

104. Rebecca author,

… du Maurier

106. Took an exam again

108. Arrogant

110. Secretly observe, … on

111. Part of a curve