BRAINBUSTER NO 679
ACROSS
1 Be too late (4,3,4) 6 Suggestibility (17) 16 Seed cover (4) 19 Frog’s larva (7) 20 Dissimilar (7) 21 Gape (4) 23 Separate grain (6) 24 Warranted (7) 25 Scanty (6) 26 Not no (3) 27 Geometric figure (5) 29 Single edition of a magazine (5) 31 Spike . . . (US film director) (3) 32 Fragment (5) 33 Illustrations in an atlas (4) 34 Plant’s anchor (4) 35 After March (5) 36 Gala (4) 38 Tibetan monk (4) 40 22nd Greek letter (3) 41 Boat (4) 43 Acorn-bearing trees (4) 46 New person (7) 49 Neither good nor bad (2-2) 50 Block (4) 51 Lean back (7) 54 Veggie with green pods (3) 56 Anger (3) 57 Small lizard (5) 59 Remedies (5) 61 Medicine (5) 63 Neither (literary) (3) 64 Style (4) 65 Transgression (3) 66 Be in session (3) 67 Retain possession (4) 68 Vapour (3) 70 Informative (11) 71 Sorrowful (3) 72 Occurrence (9) 73 Operated by liquid under pressure (9) 74 Enemy (3) 75 Occur again (9) 76 Edge (3) 78 Salzburg is in this country (7) 80 Heavenly (7) 82 Arrange (5) 85 Enchanted (9) 88 To drain (5) 89 Invigorating (10) 91 Jumped (6) 93 Comfortable chair (4) 94 Perform (a ceremony) (9) 96 Erode (4) 98 Mythical serpent (8) 99 Single upright block of stone (8) 100 Clutter (4) 102 Unrehearsed (9) 103 Exclude (4) 106 Hinder (6) 107 Not known (10) 109 Shot from a bow (5) 110 Stand for (9) 114 Untidy and dirty (5) 115 Fundamental nature (7) 117 Provisional (7) 119 Cunning (3) 120 Groveller (9) 122 Ingest (3) 123 Fanatic (9) 125 Malleable (9) 127 Insane (3) 128 Enjoyable (11) 129 Plunge (3) 131 Half (prefix) (4) 132 Baked dish (3) 133 Ability to appreciate
music, e.g. (3) 135 Doing nothing (4) 136 Pinch (3) 138 Apartments (5) 139 Hang loosely (5) 142 Three-wheeled cycle
(short) (5) 143 Males (3) 144 Beer (3) 145 Became aware of (7) 149 Bird’s home (4) 150 Blisterlike sac (4) 151 Futile (7) 155 Grating noise (4) 157 Michael or James (4) 158 Curving trajectory (3) 159 Red . . . (bureaucracy)
(4) 160 Make liquid flow out (4) 162 Implied (5) 163 Go away (imperative)
(4) 165 Angle between a branch and its stem (4) 167 Poke (5) 168 Much . . . About
Nothing (3) 170 Make someone
ashamed (5) 172 Where birds lay eggs
(5) 174 Steal (3) 176 Categories (6) 177 External (7) 178 Without notice (6) 180 Colourful salamander
(4) 181 Entry (7) 182 Withdraw (4,3) 183 Type of fish (4) 184 Autonomy (4-13) 185 Unlimited (11)
DOWN
1 Cold cuts, e.g. (4) 2 County in England (5) 3 Until this time (8) 4 Corrupt person in a group (3,5) 5 Garlic mayonnaise (5) 7 Optical apparatus (10) 8 Verbal (10) 9 Recording room (6) 10 Things (5) 11 Sicken (8) 12 Round brimless hat (8) 13 Picture (5) 14 Harness (4) 15 Word or phrase defined
in a dictionary (5) 17 Verse (5) 18 Diminish (6) 21 4,55 litres (6) 22 Ruin (5) 28 Robbery (5-3-4) 30 Greatly superior (7,5) 36 Piloting a plane (6) 37 Current (4) 39 Regions (5) 42 To lead (5) 44 An immeasurably long time (4) 45 Gained points in a game (6) 47 Thin transparent wrapping material (10) 48 Unkindness (8) 52 Alcoholic mixed drink (8) 53 Crossed intricately together (10) 55 Christian festival (6) 58 Appearance (literary) (4) 59 Fine-toothed tool (7) 60 Abdomen (7) 62 Greasy (4) 69 Officer of the court (7) 71 Qualm (7) 74 Concerns (5) 77 Head of a town (5) 79 Interpretation (9) 81 A peanut, e.g. (9) 83 Sierra . . . (African country) (5) 84 Seizes (5) 86 Not correct (2,5) 87 Theatres (7) 90 Dangerous (slang) (5) 92 19th-century Bohemian dance (5) 94 Blade (3) 95 Large flightless bird (3) 96 Entire (5) 97 Assumed name (5) 100 Grumbles (5) 101 Scattered liquid (7) 104 Wrongdoing (7) 105 Secret meeting (5) 106 Darling (10) 108 Prevent from moving
(10) 110 Uneasiness (12) 111 Diving duck (7) 112 Emit (7) 113 Casual conversation
(6-6) 116 Particular (8) 118 Recover (8) 121 More than one (6) 124 Splutter (4) 126 The hind part (4) 127 Trough (6) 130 Consider (6) 132 Bear-like mammal (5) 134 Construct (3,2) 137 Composes (an essay)
(4) 140 Sound of knocking
(3-1-3-3) 141 Misdemeanour (10) 143 Type of soup (4) 146 Choose not to
participate (3,3) 147 Clear-thinking (8) 148 Twist (8) 152 Luxurious (8) 153 Guide (8) 154 Pays money (6) 156 Cognisant (5) 161 Flower cluster (5) 164 Selected (6) 166 Incompetent (5) 169 Projecting peg (5) 171 Alongside (5) 173 Decipher (5) 175 Love intensely (5) 176 African antelopes (4) 179 Noteworthy
information (4)