BRAINTEASERS

ACROSS

1. Greed

9. Causes to blush

15. Seatbelt

16. Tot up (3,2)

17. Sports stadium

19. Wound crusts

21. Forgery

22. Uncalled for

23. Proportionately (3,4)

24. Mobile phone company

25. Café patron

27. Tiny island

29. Jabbers

31. Dolt

33. Acquire (skill)

35. African scavenger

38. Quota

40. Cooking fat

42. Pink-fleshed tropical fruit

43. TV

44. ... & that

46. Dutch cheese

48. Track

49. Angel’s ring

50. Roman IV

51. Boat

53. Rouse

55. Colorado’s neighbour

56. Palest

58. Make believe (4-3)

61. Tell a porky

63. Emirate, ... Dhabi

65. Sweltered

69. Mattress pest

71. Cheerfulness

72. Envious

74. Meadow

75. Unemployed

76. Detonate

77. Painter, Pablo ...

78. Arab region

79. Whiz

80. Finger shield

81. Light-bulb inventor

84. Cleaned (fish)

87. Dispatch (4,3)

91. Hospital ward (1,1,1)

93. Acid drug (1,1,1)

94. Running shoes

97. Flair

100. Hover menacingly 101. Visa & Amex

103. Singer, ... Lauper 105. Director, Peter ... 106. Baby carriage

107. Anaesthetic

108. Sarah, Duchess of ... 109. Used to be

110. Engine

111. Public square

113. Notion

115. Nursemaid

117. Uses VCR

120. Buffalo

122. Deep chasm

124. Coarse file

127. Requirement

129. Evil giants

131. Wharves

133. Experience (change) 134. Garish

136. Army colour 137. Robber

138. Smirk 139. Narrow shelf 140. Spot on skin 141. Frantically 142. Cinderella’s ugly kin

DOWN

1. Disgraceful event 2. Heavily loaded 3. Unrefined

4. Top of body 5. Duelling swords 6. Form

7. Sagging

8. Keep

9. University composition 10. Unmarked (paper) 11. Chance 12. Dalliance

13. Guru 14. Tranquillises 18. Regretting 20. High-handed 26. Rather old

28. Was inclined

30. Entitle

32. Bypasses

34. Off

35. Trapdoor

36. Passes (law)

37. Book of maps 39. Actor, ... Alda 41. Circular coral reef 45. Picture

47. Whisky flavour 49. Inheritor 52. Perforation

54. Border upon 56. Gossamer snare

57. ... chi (1’2)

58. Night attire 59. Forsake

60. Salad pear 62. Beautiful 64. Bemoans

66. Walking

67. Quiver 68. Disperses (fears) 70. Gather bit by bit 71. Yawns open

73. Lay (table)

75. Write quickly 82. Expired

83. Eat late in the evening 85. Beer

86. Ill at ease

88. Wear down 89. Moistens

90. Froth

92. Do the dishes (4,2)

94. The Wizard of Oz actress, ... Garland 95. Goggling

96. German river 98. Prevent (disaster) 99. Stringed instruments

101. Abel’s brother 102. Situates

103. Bottle case 104. Charged atoms 109. Walloped

110. Wise Men’s gift 112. Singer, Paula ... 114. Responses

116. Hope (to)

118. The Amazing Spider-Man actor, ... Garfield

119. I’ve found it! 121. Lots 123. Yonks 125. Apart (from) 126. Swollen (eyes) 127. Snoops 128. Privileged few 130. Roof junction 132. Sicilian volcano 135. Communists