MEGAXWORD 167
ACROSS
1. Envious
5. Aida or Tosca
9. Weirder
12. Babbles
16. Diadem
17. Afghan metropolis 18. Executioners
20. Taxi stand (3,4) 22. Sanctions 23. Relative gradient 24. Root vegetable 26. Buttressed, ... up 27. Wine berry
28. Failure to attend (3-10) 31. Doing words
32. Quit
34. Housing complex 36. Action figure, GI ... 37. Spell
40. Twitch
42. Conical tent
43. Wild (cat) 45. Working at it (2,3,3) 47. Tossed greens 49. Barks 50. Adjournments 52. Denmark natives 54. The devil
55. Pesto herb
56. Prayer ending 58. Nursery verse 59. Mouse-like mammal 60. English princess 61. Anger
62. Sacred song 63. Molten rock 64. Achievable
67. Wilts
68. Depend
69. Give way
72. Include
74. Statue
78. Flavour enhancer (1,1,1) 79. Yuck!
80. Eggs
81. Antelope
82. Play out
85. Upset (3,2) 87. Surplus 88. Blubbers
90. ... & fancy-free 91. Stop! (3’1)
92. Warty creature 93. Hillbilly guitar
94. Pond growth 95. Actor, Richard ... 96. Plant stalk 97. Constrains 100. Stubborn beast 102. Jungle creeper 103. Fence openings 104. Perfume 106. Downgrade 108. Meadow
109. Demeanour 110. Lettuce variety 112. Reshape 116. Keyboard key 118. Book user 120. Actress, ... Fonda
121. Oil cartel
123. Affirm 125. Avocado, alligator ... 126. Guttersnipes 127. German WWII fascist 128. ... & papa 129. Zodiac sign 130. Orchard yield 131. Soprano’s solo 132. Refuge
134. Tour coaches 136. Birds’ shelters 139. Station
141. Slays 142. Transactions
144. Take after
146. Lhasa is there 147. Rubber
148. Chest bone 149. Agitation 151. Members of Parliament (1,2)
152. Ease off
155. Pester 158. Japanese snack 159. Excitable 162. Parasite
164. Road grit 165. Whoopee 166. Ransacking
170. Expel 171. Non-Jewish
172. Brief inspection (4-3) 173. Unadventurous 174. Essential
175. Watch
176. Ore seams 177. Distorts 178. Arduous journey
DOWN
1. Jesting 2. Undecided 3. Expunged 4. Globes 5. Making pig sound 6. Deciduous trees 7. Pimple rash 8. Fabric fold (3,5) 9. One time 10. Debutantes 11. Gains 12. Indonesian capital 13. Vein or artery (5,6) 14. Explains further 15. Cummerbunds 19. Sicilian volcano 21. Continent 25. Small horses
26. Settings 29. Shopping squares 30. Share
33. Frozen masses 35. Hothead 36. Endanger
38. Close shave (4,4) 39. Based abroad 41. Recording spool (8,4) 42. 2 240lbs 44. Musical, ... Misérables
46. Jolted
48. ... in distress 49. Money case 51. Cheroots 53. Encase
55. Hotel page
57. Core
60. Sicken 65. Magician’s chant 66. Territories
70. White heron 71. Pottery
73. Gym weights 75. Couturier, ... Chanel 76. Prefaces 77. Regrets 78. Strategic move 83. Astir 84. Highway fees
85. Owl calls
86. Taunt
89. US, Uncle ... 91. Embankment 92. Autocue
96. Gravy
98. NB, nota ... 99. Reverberate 101. Choose
103. Cosmonaut, Yuri ... 105. Fooled (5,2) 107. Tenants (4-6) 111. Bereaved child 112. Rekindle 113. Counting frame
114. ... & puffed 115. Pared-down (2-6) 117. Canonised people 119. Genetic code carrier (1,1,1)
120. Spears
122. Food suppliers 124. Leaf brew 132. Fluorescent marker pen
133. Large tub 134. Carefree
135. Ouija session 137. Gender 138. Asininely 140. Sturdiness
141. Nut centre 143. Flounce 145. Dodgem vehicles (6,4) 150. Railway bridges 153. Glittering object 154. Everlasting 156. Pseudonyms 157. Overall commander 158. S African city
160. Ring
161. Weather feature,
El ...
163. Golden period
166. ... over matter 167. Guns (engine) 168. Woes 169. Vanished