MEGAXWORDS

ACROSS

1. Idea

5. Ice boot

9. Neck warmer 12. Exclaim (4,3) 16. Irritate

17. Want badly 18. Nonstop

20. Kenya’s capital 22. Cyclist’s outfit 23. Meanness

24. Figure

26. Evil

27. From Prague 28. Verified 31. Scientist, ... Newton 32. Wise bird’s chicks 34. GPS route planner (3,3) 36. Chopper

37. Cape Town is there (5,6) 40. Irish group (1,1,1) 42. Tired & bored 43. Lodge deeply 45. Assuages

47. Drew along behind 49. Outlaw, ... James 50. Insect feelers 52. Indian instrument 54. Picture transfer 55. Unadventurous 56. Fertiliser compound 58. Howled (of hounds) 59. Javelin

60. Youth

61. Quiet interim

62. Elicit

63. Belgrade native 64. Coffin transportation 67. More

68. Delighted cries 69. Lessen in severity (4,2) 72. Consumed 74. Recovery (of data) 78. Circle portion 79. Feminine pronoun 80. Yelp

81. Comes towards 82. Large chunks 85. Singer, ... Presley 87. Emirate, Abu ... 88. Spoken

90. Send to Coventry 91. Snakelike fish 92. Multiple birth baby 93. Light-ray scalpel 94. Curry accompaniment 95. Design system, ... shui 96. Splotch 97. Tartness

100. Old school, ... mater 102. Privileged class 103. Facial hair

104. Attain

106. Lieu 108. Geological age 109. Actor, ... Holm

110. Social events 112. Alienates 116. Gallivant 118. Demand

120. News story

121. Clap (of thunder) 123. Thicker

125. Lofty

126. Uselessly, to no ... 127. Printed greeting

128. Not any

129. Pariah 130. Fume-filled

131. Ones & ...

132. Very honoured 134. Wooden packing case 136. Conserved (energy) 139. Godless people 141. Thesaurus compiler 142. Gapes open 144. Secondary job

146. Rise high

147. Promo product (3-2) 148. MI6 Cold War foe (1,1,1) 149. Discovered 151. Decimal point 152. Endorsed

155. Gazed lustfully 158. Ballot-caster 159. Non-army (zone) 162. Sped

164. Damage 165. Pigment, burnt ... 166. Network of tunnels 170. Up to the time that 171. Senseless 172. Bringing about

173. Just right

174. Local language 175. Remodel

176. Holy goblet

177. Sliver

178. Glimpsed

DOWN

1. Stratagem

2. Citrus rind (6,4) 3. Glass plant-shelters 4. Of heat 5. Unhappiest

6. Actor, ... Baldwin

7. ..., west, home is best 8. Emblems

9. Song, Auld Lang... 10. Unchanged (2,2) 11. US swamp state 12. See-through fabric 13. Gutless (4-7) 14. Successful invasion 15. Heartbreaking 19. Slumps

21. Most populous continent 25. Brown shade

26. Bun seed 29. Captioned

30. David’s Biblical kingdom

33. Able to be rubbed out 35. Drama houses 36. Inflatable pillow (3,7) 38. Mileage gauge 39. Covered waste cistern 41. Magnificent (3-9) 42. Supersonic plane 44. Genetic code carrier (1,1,1)

46. Red/blue mix 48. Colorado capital 49. JFK’s bride 51. Lumberjack’s shout 53. Public meetings 55. Flounces gracefully 57. Screen on TV

60. It is (poetic) (‘3) 65. Spectres 66. Approval (3-2) 70. Corrosive substances 71. Appointments 73. Schnitzels 75. Dwindles 76. Intolerant of delay 77. Afflicts

78. Cute

83. Major blood vessel 84. Run for parliament 85. Black-and-white sea duck 86. Other way, vice ... 89. Laboratory

91. Hour expected (1,1,1) 92. Query sign (8,4) 96. Curves

98. Type of lily

99. Prophet 101. Digression

103. Struggled 105. Commandeers 107. Rudeness 111. Aquatic mammals 112. Imperial sovereigns 113. Upturn

114. Roman XXX

115. Italian bubbly 117. Muddled

119. I have (1’2) 120. Imaginary 122. Abandon (3,5) 124. Singer, ... King Cole 132. In graphic form 133. Extravagant (1,1,1) 134. Wheat or barley 135. Simpler

137. Chassis identifier (1,1,1) 138. Extracting moisture from 140. Familiarises

141. Book user

143. Moves crabwise 145. Formal accusation 150. Teaching

153. Pacify 154. Reworking (text) 156. Enlightened 157. Breaks promise 158. Costs estimator 160. Terrible tsar

161. Tiny amount 163. Blunted

166. Pale flat bean 167. Final-lap sound 168. Corporals (1,1,2) 169. Honolulu dance