Fairlady

BRAINTEASE­R 2

- COMPILED BY CHRISTINE LOVATT

ACROSS

1. Sweaters

6. Ballroom (5,4)

12. Oscar winner, Susan …

17. Men

18. Aden is there

19. Calls (6,2)

20. Sparkling bubbly

21. Betting

22. Financial interest

24. Edge of bread

26. Savour

29. Splodge

33. Clumsy

36. Stupidly

39. Benchtop plastic

41. Rectify (text)

42. Cheeriest

43. Dairy cattle breed

44. Surprised, taken …

46. Japan's capital

48. Naval chief

50. Beseech

52. Delicately decorative

54. Most inquisitiv­e

56. Mother chicken

58. Type

60. Playful kiss

61. Feel unwell

62. Identifies (disease)

66. Evict

67. Ransacking

70. Armoury

71. Silhouette brooches

72. Stabbing pain

73. Royal air force (1,1,1)

75. Credit-card holder

76. Rests

77. Relinquish

78. Excelled

80. Smidgen

81. Swiss cereal

82. Required

85. Kitchen implement 88. Watered 90. Truthful 93. Second-place getters (7-2) 95. Corn on the … 96. Strong flavour 97. Allergy symptom 99. Gran

100. Spanish treasure ship 102. Ocean's flow 104. Mormon state 105. Stole (game) 108. Artefact

110. Smell awful 112. Stand-in monarch 114. Trial 117. Corrosive fluids 118. Impaired 119. Austrian pastry 120. Geometric solid 122. Wood-mill waste 126. Back sections 129. Sheriff's search party 132. Isolate, keep … 135. Country, El … 136. Knowingly (2,7) 137. Sealed shut 138. Coral banks 139. Actress, … Holmes 140. Domestics 141. Gentlest

142. Hard menial work

DOWN

1. Defunct

2. False gods 3. Saturday & Sunday 4. Funny 5. Spellbound 6. Timber platform 7. Bonfire residue

8. Fawn colour

9. Core

10. Hang illegally 11. Sleazy gaze 12. Darns

13. Body structure 14. Continent, North … 15. Golf stroke

16. Day & … 23. Competentl­y

25. Alien spacecraft (1,1,2) 27. Equipped 28. Dyeing

30. Material design 31. Pig's grunts 32. Entices 34. Arresting

35. Strides

37. Head of wheat 38. Annual periods 39. Dress

40. Gun (engine) 45. Pakistani city 47. Chase

48. Trying out (for role) 49. More haste, … speed 51. Hungarian stew 53. Whiz

54. Cairo's waterway 55. Taciturn (5-6) 57. Formerly named 59. Craving 60. Venomous African viper (4,5) 61. Intention

63. Flyer 64. Henpecking 65. Trimmed with scissors 67. Canoeist 68. Ordinarily (2,1,4) 69. Treats cruelly (3-4) 74. Haziest 79. Clergyman

81. Small fish 83. British college 84. Debutante 86. Convent sister 87. Click (fingers) 89. Corsica & Sardinia 90. Sorrowful

91. Lack of action 92. Hoarse-sounding 94. Reuse 96. Clocked 98. Passes (over) 101. Daisy-like flower 103. Practised (trade) 106. Older person 107. Laundry pin 109. Disfigure 111. Ugandan metropolis 112. Friendly relationsh­ip 113. Acquires 115. Famous volcano 116. Sturdier 117. Carbonated 120. Blog entries 121. Lounger

122. Good judgment 123. Should

124. … or downer 125. Jobs

127. River growth, blue-green … 128. Peanut (sauce) 130. Mineral rocks 131. Squishy

133. Bog fuel 134. Sudden attack

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