BRAINTEASER

158

ACROSS

1. Disorganise 4. Harrowing ordeal 7. Chatter incoherently 10. Touched lips 13. Starring actor (7,3) 15. Wimp (5-5) 17. Liquid unit 19. Gowns 21. Risk-free 23. Lacking melody 25. Gladdening 28. Jamaican music 29. Obsolete (3,3) 30. Spider’s lair 32. Check out 36. Texas is there (1,1,1) 37. Beg 38. World faith 40. Giant monsters 42. Outlay (cash) 44. Great anger 45. Talked indiscreetly 46. Piano ivories 47. Attempt 49. Herbs, bouquet ... 51. Having a round roof 53. Soya-bean curd 54. Courageous fellow 55. Crushing defeat 56. Cain’s brother 57. Theatre attendant 60. Exercises (7,2) 65. Thawed 66. Dilly-dallied 68. I am, you ... 69. Straighten 71. Falls (behind) 72. Powerful need 73. Pinch (goods) 76. Small drink of spirits 78. Killer’s schedule (3,4) 83. Ringo or Paul 85. Market slowdown 88. Royal Navy HQ 90. Entranceway 91. Dad 92. Gulf nation 93. Until (2,2) 96. Deadly Indian serpent 97. Beer 98. Copy 99. Part of eye 100. Spring (from) 101. Violently separate 102. Gets rid of (employee) 103. Himalayan republic 105. Sponge cake, ... roll 107. Waterlogged ground 108. Scoop 110. Sets alight 114 . ... chi (1’2) 116. In flower 117. Genuine facts 119. Sicknesses 122. Explosive 125. Delights 127. Outdated 130. Baby’s bed 131. Attractiveness 132. Synthetic 133. Tipsy 134. Actress, Jamie Lee ... 135. Scoffs 136. Pedestrian tunnel

DOWN

1. Sweater 2. Waist band 3. Rescued disaster victim 4. Corny 5. Quarrel 6. The A of AD 7. Solstice month 8. Christian holy book 9. Tethers 10. Japanese dresses 11. Declares 12. Absorb (information) 14. Fire crime 16. Savoury jelly 18. Negligent 20. Belch 22. Doable 23. Gaudy and cheap 24. Sit in relaxed way 26. Not quite closed 27. Glazed (look) 31. Larger 32. Partook of alcohol 33. Washington port 34. Insignia 35. Young child 36. Depleted (4,2) 37. Cunning plan 39. Charred (meat) 41. Use frugally (3,3) 43. Budge 48. Steal (cattle) 50. Informal roster 52. Married title 54. Tree fence 58. Burdensome 59. Thick string 61. Rocky Mountains state 62. Enticement 63. Reworked 64. Heavenly being 65. Bullfighters 67. Sips 69. Of the city 70. Bash (4,2) 74. Perversely (of fate) 75. Overthrow 77. Haifa native 79. Imprecise 80. Riotous 81. Air pollution 82. Duration devices 84. Old office machine 85. Rushing 86. Truck compartment 87. Futilely (2,4) 89. Hardest to find 94. Yell of pain 95. The ... of Solomon 98. Like 104. Poke 106. Ancient Peruvian 109. Visual symbolism 111. Catches breath 112. Coloured writing fluids 113. Church senior 115. Gains 116. Miserable (poverty) 118. Discreetly 120. Early Mexican 121. Interior 123. Unworldly 124. Mutilates 126. Potato 128. Invites 129. Cysts 130. Truncheon