BRAINTEASER 172

ACROSS

1. Childhood illness

6. Tropical parrot

10. Clear-headed

14. Fortunately

18. Award

19. The Pink Panther actor,

… Sellers

20. Venom

21. Deletes (4,3)

22. Icy rain

23. Cherub

24. Split hairs (3-4)

25. Tend (fire)

26. Horse farms

27. Deserve

28. Gauge

30. Main courses

32. Not far away

35. Ontario city

39. Greater

42. Lag behind

46. Art stands

48. Mighty flotilla

49. Sterile

50. Wholesome

51. Long skirt

53. Category

55. Accomplishes

57. Mamma Mia! actress, … Seyfried

58. Henpeck

60. The D of AD

61. Paper quantity

63. Up to (then)

64. Drop in on

65. Untethered

66. Overindulged

70. Mourn

73. Discontinues suckling

74. Threw

75. Correct (text)

76. Cuban coins

77. Cure

78. Battery size (1,1,1)

79. Wild party

80. Shatter

81. In pursuit of

83. Twirl

85. Small trumpet

86. Garden statuettes

88. Good Friday period

91. Space film genre (3-2)

93. Slaughters

95. UFO pilot

97. Famous English college

98. Very much

99. Affirmative

100. Snow sportsmen 101. Foreboding

103. Elderly

107. Flexible stick

109. Mental image

110. Part with cash

111. Honey base

112. Cheap lodgings 114. Tripoli native

116. Anybody

118. Steinway virtuoso 121. Ferret relative

123. Labours hard

127. Gravy

129. Eye cover 131. Canadian flag leaf 133. Plaster of … 136. Moral 137. Moroccan port 138. Just right 139. Windier 140. Appeal 141. Leather strip 142. Synthetic fibre 143. Eventually 144. Chaotic 145. Chaps

146. Slid

DOWN

2. Avoid (capture) 3. Hang from above 4. Tall birds

5. Dog breed, red … 6. Face disguise 7. Director, Woody … 8. Imitates 9. Soggier

10. Heavy (heart) 11. Ashes jars 12. Articles

13. Hand (out)

14. Inner layer

15. Single entity 16. Smoked fish

17. In the vicinity 28. Spain’s capital 29. Laze

30. Fleshy 31. Procedure 33. Antennas

34. False courage 36. Black & white whale 37. Musical dramas 38. Soup cans

40. Lean 41. Non-Jewish 43. Females

44. Cloth plaything (3,4) 45. Take recess (of court) 47. Fencing blades 52. Breathtaking 54. Lawsuit 56. Furthest

58. Miserly 59. Bargains 62. Passenger jet 67. Primp

68. Koran religion 69. Clumps 70. Aladdin’s lamp servant 71. Teen heroes 72. Popular style 82. Emotion 84. Classifying 86. Dizzily

87. Public speech 89. Molasses 90. Impish villains 92. Pelts

94. Greek sea

96. Nail file material 97. Engraves

102. Subtle difference

104. Levels

105. Italian sparkling wine 106. Beware the … of March 108. Zodiac ram 113. Company slogan (3,4) 115. Exploded 117. Verbally 119. Lethargy

120. Loafing 122. Mexican friends

124. Liberate (3,2) 125. Window blind 126. Separate 128. Thin pancake 129. Father 130. Compress 131. Rugs

132. Rim 134. Sadly 135. Holed (putt)