THIS WEEK’S BIG CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1. Antlered male animals 4. Membrane at back of eye 8. European expanse of water, ... Sea 12. Direct the course of 16. A rough or uncultivated Australian (slang) 18. New configuration 19. From Europe to North America, ... flight 21. Needed
23. Toss
24. Star of The African Queen, ... Bogart 26. Kiwi graffiti artist,
... Frizzell
28. Native waterfowl, black ...
31. Play set to music 32. Emirates capital,
... Dhabi
34. Suffuse
35. Bird's sharp claw 36. Strongboxes
37. Pop band, rock ... 38. Uncomplaining person 39. Internal sac of fluid 41. Become submerged 44. German emperor 45. Lifting, elevating 49. Ocean west of Australia 51. Speak off the cuff,
... a speech (2-3) 53. Sheraton or Hilton, eg 54. Organising, ... up 56. Snow landslide 57. Seasoned speaker 59. Correct or improve text for publication
60. Rise early, up with the ... 62. Middle of the leg 63. Road-use charge, motorway ... 64. Stonework structure 65. Old-style pubs
67. Dark green leafy vegetable 70. Chilled drink, ... tea 73. Actor fired from Grey’s Anatomy, ... Washington 75. Thefts
76. Famous swimwear brand
77. Surface decoration 78. Short Japanese poem 79. Watching, looking over 80. Put in a different sequence 84. Circles, squares, etc 85. Boaters, Stetsons, etc 88. Professional charges 90. Army first-aider 92. Dickens novel, The Mystery Of ... Drood
DOWN
93. Popular Japanese snack, ... roll
94. Cut up a joint of meat 96. Rubbery material 97. Observe
99. Lower surface of a room
100. London police HQ, Scotland ...
103. Fixed price, standard ... 105. Members of an urban, alternative-styled counterculture 107. Portray feelings 108. Castigates
109. Local area, community 111. Shared out again,
... wealth
112. 007 movie, Tomorrow ... Dies 113. Old-fashioned swear word
114. Trouble, annoy continually 115. Colourful flower parts 116. Soldiers' marching practice
2. Sedative or calming drug
3. Fortified military base 4. Ranted angrily 5. Male moggie 6. Compositions for nine voices 7. Statute, law
8. Have a flutter 9. Archer's missiles 10. Permanently frozen Arctic plain 11. Financial collapse, market ... 13. Treads on carelessly, ... the garden 14. Blackmailers 15. Chair side piece 17. Man-made fibre 20. Insect larva
22. Nail file, ... board 25. Related to cities 26. Malt-drying kiln 27. Draw as a conclusion 29. Inaccurate
30. Bites sharply 32. Italian sparkling wine, ... spumante 33. Tangerine-grapefruit citrus cross
39. Steep rugged rock 40. Sturdy, firm
42. Bury 43. Thousand grams (abbrev)
44. The African Queen star, ... Hepburn
46. Ready for use,
... resources
47. Jazz singing style 48. Smooth peach-like fruit 50. Storytellers 52. Portable power pack, AA ... 53. Diabolical, infernal 55. Name for grandma 58. Accumulated a debt, ... a big bill (3,2)
59. Cry of alarm
61. Baby goat 66. Surreptitiously listening in on a conversation 68. Distribute in portions 69. Fruit, Packham ... 71. Specially selected, an ... group 72. Moody
74. Toni Braxton hit, You're Makin’ Me ...
76. Discover, ... out (slang) 80. Someone using oars
81. Is in possession of 82. Medicinal amount 83. Member of a Jamaican religious movement (abbrev) 86. Amend, change
87. Sir Rod Stewart hit,
Da Ya Think I'm ...?
88. Small flute 89. Milestone period 90. Main constituent of natural gas 91. Gripped onto 94. Goalpost's horizontal beam
95. Serial instalment
98. Greek god of love
101. Sagittarius star symbol 102. Evil spirits, fiends
103. Hold in awe, respect
highly
104. Russian three-horsed
sleigh
106. Antarctic area, ... Pole 108. Quotes as an example 110. Iowa's capital,
... Moines 111. Representative (abbrev)
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