BRAINTEASER 2

ACROSS

1. Tailor’s tool, sewing ... 4. Eject

8. Beach

11. Pacifies 16. Canadian territory 18. The DC of AC/DC (6,7) 19. Children’s doctor 21. Defers briefly

23. Urge on 26. Crumples (6,2)

28. Hair tints 30. Spitting image, dead ... 32. Griddle cake 34. Fastener 36. Caribbean nation 38. Yield to pressure (4,2) 39. Because

42. Of sound

45. Irish

47. Animal hides

49. Seal deal, shake ... 50. Teething sticks 53. Terminate

55. Attack

56. Aged & mentally infirm 57. Sampled (food) 59. Dollar unit

60. Pine or palm 61. Unfounded whisper

63. XI

66. Powerful chess piece 68. Soak

70. Before (poetic) 71. Fiesta, Mardi ... 72. Stomach crunch (3-2) 73. Wise

76. Slimy substance 77. Skillet 78. Arrangements (3-3) 79. Hamburger, Big ...

81. Toboggan

83. Cares for 85. Computer input

86. Little terror

88. Set-in (design) 90. Dissolve (ties) 91. Mollycoddled 92. Bamboo-eating mammals 93. Persistently scolds 95. Laundry appliance 96. Appoint

97. Passe (3,3) 100. Hitman 102. Doghouse

103. Fabled three wishes giver 105. Taboo actions (2-3) 106. Primitive water plants 108. Tempest

110. Biting flies 112. Distributed (cards)

114. On the house

117. Pale furniture wood 119. Help! (1,1,1)

121. Wrong 124. Organises feast

127. Keg 129. Judgements 130. Percussion instrument 131. Evened up

132. Surfeit

134. POW (8,2,3)

135. Lodge deeply 136. Methods

137. Coke’s cola rival 138. United (2,3) 139. Broadened

DOWN

1. Demureness

2. First name (9,4) 3. Growth 5. Fluctuates 6. Disbelievers 7. Tutankhamen, King ... 8. Police officer 9. Equal (2,1,3) 10. Saturated 12. Cooking fluid (5,3) 13. Niggling 14. Preschool play area 15. Interrupts (4,2) 17. Biliousness

20. Dame ... Dench 22. Talk monotonously 24. Illuminating gas 25. Cover with gold 27. Twinge in neck 29. Chicks’ shelters 31. Malevolent spirit 33. Code 34. Enthusiastic devotion 35. Notebooks 37. Examined 40. Supplies (uniforms) 41. Bells

43. Depleted (4,2) 44. Popular garden flowers 46. Burning out of control 48. Sideways (movement) 51. Complete collection 52. NW US state 54. Scampering 58. Jetliner 62. Metropolitan 64. Country byroads 65. African river 66. Multiple-birth babies 67. Of the nose

69. Punctuation mark 71. Satnav device (1,1,1) 74. Earning

75. Due time (1,1,1) 79. Northern Italian city 80. Cramped space (5,8) 82. Muffle 83. Leaseholder 84. Marriage mate 85. Bleak 86. Lookalike sibling (9,4) 87. Bible song

89. Hang loosely 92. Hearth stirrers 94. Like father, like ... 98. Lamp

99. Hurl

100. Divine beings 101. Communion table 104. Choose 107. Nimble 109. Renounce crown 111. Haywire

113. Actor, ... Alda 115. Minor planet 116. Underhand 118. High-roller’s haunt 120. Oh dear! 122. Cantaloupes 123. Survived 125. Breathe 126. Carves 127. Embarks 128. Without rhyme or ... 133. Record label (1,1,1) 134. Ham & ... soup