THE BIG ONE
ACROSS 12 Midday break (5,4) 14 Official authorisation (8) 15 Autograph (4) 16 Species of parrot (5) 19 Admonish (7) 20 Unconcealed (7) 21 Strange (3) 22 Picture to yourself (7) 23 Urgent (5) 25 Deliberated (over) (6) 27 Mistaken (5) 29 Person who explores space (9) 34 Row of supports for an
entablature or roof (9) 36 Crew (5) 37 Attila’s men (4) 38 Drilling platform (3,3) 41 Regulation obliging people to be indoors (6) 43 Resentful, begrudging (7) 45 High point (4) 46 ___ Together, Beatles hit (4) 47 On any occasion (4) 49 Do business (5) 51 Put (5) 53 Endure (5,2,2) 55 Market value (5) 60 Big-top show (6) 62 Entry to a sewer (5) 63 Distinctive smell (5) 65 Containing energy (of food) (9) 67 Into the past (9) 26 69 Welsh word for Wales (5) 28 70 Cat noise (5) 30 72 Steel beam (6) 31 73 Lumley/Saunders sitcom, in short (2,3) 75 Temporarily acquiesce (4,5) 77 Sphere representing the Earth (5) 78 Rag, torment (5) 83 Block (of chocolate, eg) (4) 85 Reddish-brown to purplish-brown (4) 86 Tranquillise (4) 88 Gospel disseminator (7) 90 Make a hole in (6) 92 Discerningly, sagely (6) 93 Corm, tuber (4) 94 Gripping implement (5) 95 Complete list (9) 98 Stopping, 54
discontinuance (9) 56 100 Kitchen flooring material (5) 57 102 Senseless (6) 58 104 Three-score (5) 108 Artificial fibre similar to wool (7) 110 Crunchy lettuce (3) 111 Constantly recurring (7) 113 Presented for display (7) 115 Kingly, majestic (5) 116 Deviate (4) 117 Raised wooden framework (8) 118 Count, list (9)
DOWN 1 Cat’s sound (4) 2 Utter confusion and disorder (5) 3 Desk (6) 4 The Red Planet (4) 5 Clan (5) 6 In times gone by (4) 7 Wealthy and powerful business person (6) 8 Apart, separately (5) 9 Versus (7) 10 Minicab (4) 11 Elaborate creamy layered cake (6) 13 Country’s chief city (7) 17 Attractively slim and lissom (6) 18 Very thin (fracture) (8) 24 Plant found in the desert (6) Club for dancing (5) Shining, glowing (7) Care for the sick (5) Nibble or bite like a rodent (4) 32 Pernickety (5) 33 Call a halt to (3) 35 Mellowed (4) 37 Terrible actor (3) 39 Huge or wonderful (5) 40 Relative by marriage (3-2-3) 42 Animal coat (3) 44 Grand Roman house (5) 48 Bathroom powder (4) 50 Have nothing more to do with (someone) (6) 52 Shaped like a pointed party hat (7) Toffee (7) Make a bid of (5) Arm or leg (4) Rich, fertile mud or soil (4) 59 Sturdy shoe (6) 61 Bedtime drink (5) 62 Abandoned (8) 64 Classical piece (4) 66 Character on a musical stave (4) 68 Voices (4) 71 Head of a monastery (5) 74 Under, beneath (5) 76 Regularly, when dark (7) 79 Container for return mail (inits)(3) 80 Carefree excursion (5) 81 Parts of the body you would pedicure (4) 82 Mode of pronunciation (6) 84 Premise (5) 85 In a civil manner (8) 87 Bone connected to the backbone (3) 89 Fertile desert area (5) 90 Medicine capsule (4) 91 Gremlin, glitch (3) 95 Building with a steeple (6) 96 Bad-weather vehicle (7) 97 Gamekeeper’s foe (7) 99 Pencil rubber (6) 101 Demand, ask forcefully (6) 103 Totally resistant (6) 105 Derision (5) 106 Highlands smallholding (5) 107 Child’s word for ‘stomach’ (5) 109 ___ Madrid, Spanish soccer club (4) 111 Hit hands together to show approval (4) 112 Void (4) 114 Facts, info (4)