BRAINTEASER

ACROSS

1. Womaniser

4. Press (dough)

8. Wrist clock

11. Temporary remedy

16. Candy ingredient

18. Vanishing act

19. Cutlery used for sweets

21. Occasion

23. Nominee

26. Apart

28. Go to

30. Croatia’s neighbour

32. Mistake

34. Natural mineral

36. Magazine copy

38. Simultaneously, in ...

39. Portents

42. Festivals

45. Whirlpools

47. Hunting lure

49. Sad poem

50. Might

53. I spy with my ... eye

55. US lunar programme

56. Needlework

57. Made (wage)

59. Picnic pests

60. Parsley or sage

61. Writer, ... Hemingway

63. Cut (to suit)

66. Singer, ... Minogue

68. Popular number puzzle

70. Wooden barrel

71. Roofing metal

72. Recess

73. Taxis

76. Neither fish ... fowl

77. Fit in well

78. Pituitary and adrenal

79. Hamburger, Big ...

81. Leer

83. Flying toys

85. Reddish-purple

86. UK air force (1,1,1)

88. Pull from ground

90. Terminated

91. Quite

92. Untied

93. Hot water dispensers

95. Perfumed powder

96. Ketchup, ... sauce

97. Incidents

100. Desert illusion

102. Sri Lanka’s old name 103. Polishes (floor)

105. Happen

106. Move crab-wise

108. Idolised

110. West African land 112. Dissolve (relationship) 114. Blood vessel

117. Hawaii is known as the ...

State

119. Butterfly catcher

121. Minor slip

124. Beaten people

127. Pester

129. Cowboy lawmen 130. Logical explanation 131. Obstruction

132. Hispanic (5-8)

134. Head of government (5,8) 135. Fretted

136. Conceded

137. Baking agent

138. Small lakes

139. Spaceman, Yuri ...

DOWN

1. Cushion filling

2. Slaying

3. Dual-winged aircraft

5. Subtle difference

6. Increase (of costs)

7. Owing

8. Money roll

9. Sports stadiums

10. Comfier

12. Left parentless

13. PM greeting (4,9)

14. Classiest

15. Totalled (4,2)

17. Time of danger

20. Wharf

22. Chilli con ...

24. Princess Royal

25. Divulge

27. Artist’s tripod

29. Scout group

31. Buffalo

33. Mouse

34. Peace prize city

35. Incites, ... on

37. Goat milk sacs

40. Near-sighted

41. ANC hero, ... Mandela

43. Sailor’s yes (3,3)

44. Sharp-tasting

46. Glossy

48. Lodging (vote)

51. Expression of disgust

52. Smell

54. Verbally attacks (6,3)

58. Plentiful supply

62. Summarise

64. News slant

65. Unbending

66. Cambodia’s ... Rouge

67. Predatory bird

69. Islamic sacred book

71. Wildlife park

74. Spoke rashly

75. Hollywood producer, ... Goldwyn

79. Casual clothes (day) 80. Green liqueur (5,2,6) 82. Tangle up

83. Film star, Diane ... 84. Parody

85. Part of sentence 86. Amusement ride (6,7) 87. Deceptive manoeuvre 89. Bricklayer’s tool 92. Open wounds 94. Gender 98. Nevada’s Las ... 99. Peruse quickly 100. Have to

101. Young females 104. WWII’s ... Hitler 107. Collar fold 109. Meted (out) 111. Charismatic glow 113. Calf flesh 115. Instructing 116. Exhibit 118. Gave (party) 120. Love god 122. Soundtrack CDs 123. Invaded 125. Stoat fur 126. Belts

127. Afro or beehive 128. Looked 133. Immature louse 134. High spirits