THIS WEEK’S BIG CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1. Know-it-alls, smart … 4. Statue pedestal 8. Counsel, give some good …

12. Burn slightly

16. Long hill-crest 18. Bag’s long carrying handle (8,5) 19. House’s main sleeping area (6,7) 21. Partner, assistant

23. Fill with delight 24. Express gratitude, say … (5,3) 26. Bargain, get a great … 28. Convent residents 31. Mistake, blunder 32. Star of The Woman In The Window, … Adams 34. Heavy metric weight 35. Stitched, … a dress 36. Silly caper 37. Musical opening (abbrev.) 38. Compelled, … me to do it

39. Harmful microbe 41. Overly self-righteous person

44. Graze, … your knee 45. Scan, a … of the document 49. National song 51. Artist’s picture support 53. Herbivorous animal with a short trunk 54. Ancient people of Mexico 56. Prosperity

57. Person from Sana’a, eg 59. Soft-drink gassiness 60. Calf-length garment, … skirt

62. Citrus rind, orange … 63. Ancient Andean civilisation

64. Point of the crescent moon, eg 65. Natural sausage skin 67. Strong desire 70. Tense, twitchy 73. Energetic and forceful person

75. Lacking moral strength 76. Put controls on, … your spending (4,2)

77. Turn on the spot

78. Car with extra power source, … charged 79. Brief sleep, have a … 80. Fragrance 84. Rejected, … the claims 85. Intersection point in a network

88. Fateful date for Julius Caesar, the … of March 90. Obfuscate, make hazy 92. Public gardens 93. Rope used to round up cattle

94. Draw in air through the nose, … the air

96. Very overweight 97. Outkast hit, … Ya!

99. Truss (3,2) 100. Eternally, for … 103. Concept, thought 105. Fundamental or essential

107. UK flag, … Jack 108. Nervous, strained 109. Famous first words of Hamlet’s best-known soliloquy (2,2,2,3,2,2) 111. Children’s poems (7,6) 112. Tibetan monks 113. Jane Austen classic,

… And Sensibility

114. Musical group of six 115. Spooky apparitions 116. Devotional church chant

DOWN

2. Anticipate with pleasure (4,7,2)

3. Ran into, … with another car

4. Less contaminated 5. Latest batch of recruits, new …

6. Go overseas, … abroad 7. Pelvic joint 8. Annual general meeting (1,1,1) 9. Cause hearing loss 10. Trainee hospital doctor 11. White heron 13. Further from the margin of text, an … paragraph 14. Affectedly virtuous person (5-3-5) 15. Process of diffusion 17. Sudden desire 20. Cosy, as … as toast 22. Eagle’s high nest 25. Traditional Ma¯ori feast 26. Whisky measure 27. Misbehave (3,2)

29. To this point, … now 30. Come to a standstill, halt

32. Genus of maple tree 33. Golfer’s nerves

39. Stayin’ Alive band, Bee …

40. Swiss potato cake 42. Swift, a … response 43. Star of The Woman In The Window, … Oldman

44. Rushes like panicking cattle

46. Works well, an … method

47. Extinct wild cattle

48. To a sickening degree (2,7)

50. Made slightly wet or damp

52. Most work-shy 53. Violent storm 55. Richest part of milk 58. Ooze or radiate, … confidence

59. Viral infection 61. Chilly, … cold

66. Ill at ease, … with the decision 68. Wandered, roamed 69. Meat from cattle 71. Injured by a bull, eg 72. Extremely tiny, an … amount 74. Frank, candid 76. Metal bars 80. Pucker, … your lips 81. Red patch of skin 82. Cinderella characters, the … Stepsisters 83. Released, … the pressure 86. Healthy fats in fish oil, … 3 fatty acids 87. Fencing weapon 88. Ninth letter of the Greek alphabet

89. Apply, … your influence 90. Coffee-making professional 91. Sumptuous, very beautiful 94. Orations, public … 95. Given to passing enthusiasms

98. Middle Eastern prince

101. Whirlpool, tornado

102. Ruined building debris

103. Spate, surge

104. Deletes, rubs out

106. Ransacks, burgles

108. Categorises, … out

110. Retract claim, … your words 111. Complain, pester