ACROSS

1. Employ 5. Should, ... to 9. Harmonica, mouth ... 12. Farce 16. Extent 17. Supplicate 18. Kenyan capital 20. Frozen covers 22. Revolve around 23. Perilous 24. Woven material 26. Igneous rock 27. Anguish 28. Table seasonings (4,3,6) 31. Kingdom 32. Cricket side 34. Garden building 36. Perch 37. Socialise 40. Lamb’s mother 42. Ring up 43. Circular reef 45. Truant 47. Narrative poems 49. Manipulators 50. Rued 52. Streetcars 54. Leaven 55. Nasal bone cavity 56. Seize 58. Utters 59. Stringed instrument 60. Egg-shaped tomato 61. Solitary 62. Morally uplift 63. Individuals 64. Of native group 67. Price labels 68. Samples (wine) 69. Weather feature (2,4) 72. Flavour enhancer (1,1,1) 74. Breakfast spread 78. Bullring shout 79. Imitate 80. Nucleus 81. Look unblinkingly 82. Storm water pipe 85. Rework 87. Painter, Leonardo da ... 88. Teases 90. Nursery fable (5,4) 91. ... de foie gras 92. Moreover 93. Surpass 94. Japanese snack 95. Bluster 96. Unflustered 97. Call centre workers 100. Responsibility 102. Perverse fate 103. Heaven’s Pearly ... 104. Oscar-winner, ... Witherspoon 106. Planet 108. Wheat spike 109. French no

110. Cheers actor, ... Danson 112. Flute players 116. Gallivant 118. Most peculiar 120. Ammunition 121. Crustacean 123. ... Mandela 125. Caribbean nation 126. Booth 127. Crooned 128. Cheese edge 129. Corrosive substances 130. Fade away, ... out 131. Cosmonaut, ... Gagarin 132. Sci-fi author, Jules ... 134. River barriers 136. Window ledges 139. ... & Tobago 141. Stiff 142. Thoroughly search 144. Marine bird (3,5) 146. Female 147. Persists 148. Chinese lunch, yum ... 149. Halfwits 151. Deejays (1,2) 152. Spoonbill relatives 155. Pester 158. Mental reasoning 159. Smug (4-9) 162. Tropical fruit 164. Nunnery boss 165. N African desert 166. Humiliates 170. Dust-coloured 171. Under 172. Go in again (2-5) 173. Personal 174. Alpha & ... 175. Removed silt 176. Wield 177. Thin biscuit 178. Dissolves

DOWN

1. Disconnect (appliance) 2. Intoxicates 3. Aloof 4. Dignify 5. Rust 6. Beneficial 7. Identical sibling 8. Additional item 9. Lake Erie state 10. Elapses, ... by 11. Romantic US falls 12. Torrent 13. Punctuation marks 14. Of two minds 15. High regard 19. Lisa Simpson’s brother 21. Zodiac crossover 25. Jackal or wolf 26. Produces (offspring) 29. Advertising firm 30. Writer, ... Hemingway 33. Emphatic 35. Huge numbers 36. Puts to the sword 38. Family favouritism 39. Bounty 41. Attempting 42. Legume 44. Local area network 46. Warbles 48. Rarely 49. Worthwhile 51. Edible shellfish 53. Smudged 55. Oblique 57. Nod (head) 60. Sped 65. Fervent 66. Fossil resin 70. Depart 71. Travel plans 73. Frolicked 75. Singer’s solo 76. Trainee soldier (4,5) 77. Single combat 78. Acquiring 83. Astir 84. Dressed to the ... 85. Cutting blade 86. Outlaw, ... James 89. Tally 91. Vietnamese noodle soup 92. Blue-blooded 96. Bladders 98. Burst (of laughter) 99. Repose 101. Yellow vegetable 103. Pained expression 105. Encloses in box 107. Fastidiousness 111. Inscribed 112. Caressing 113. Unbound 114. Lazy people 115. Concert tour dates 117. Murder, She Wrote star, ... Lansbury 119. Demise 120. Forsakes 122. Coffee-making experts 124. Amateur 132. Justifying 133. Uncooked 134. Dowagers 135. Cancels 137. Musical, ... Misérables 138. Isolating racially 140. Usher in 141. Heightens 143. Skin eruptions 145. Baptismal guardians 150. Lawyer 153. Drank 154. Embodiment 156. Converter 157. Took leading role 158. Sneaked 160. Flutter 161. Abscond 163. Gives warning to 166. Scandinavian 167. Inoculation injection 168. Bird’s crop 169. Medieval slave