THE BIG ONE
ACROSS
1 Bad actor (3) 3 The smallest of a litter (4) 5 Panatellas, say (6) 10 A very small period of
time (5,6) 16 Army colour (5) 18 Another name for skittles
(8) 19 Zodiac sign (6) 20 Jim, former boxing champ
(4) 22 Kingdom (5)
23 Part of speech (6) 24 Mount -----, the world’s
highest peak (7) 25 Radioactive element (7) 26 Nobleman (4) 29 Needlecase (4) 30 Cosmetic item (8)
32 Deserves (5) 36 To warn about danger, to
alert (5) 38 Sailors’ cry (5-2)
39 Gulp the stopper (anag) (4) 40 Corner (5)
42 Falling into ruins (8) 44 A cherished hope (5) 45 Concluding, ultimate (5)
47 Cry of pain (4) 48 A town in W central
Scotland (7) 50 Feeler (7)
51 Affluent, rich (7) 53 Shinbone (5) 54 To work up (6) 55 Goodbye, adieu (8)
57 Spanish dish (6) 59 A slippery fish (3) 60 Allow to enter (5)
61 To put up, construct (5) 63 Scenery for a play or film
(3) 65 Mineral (3) 67 --- clear, --- square, --- out
(3) 68 Top card (3) 69 Crafty, artful (3)
71 A narrow beam of light (3) 73 Keen (5) 76 A light narrow open boat
(5) 77 Plunder, steal from (3)
81 Enlists (6) 83 To grow or expand (8) 84 Angora (6) 85 Run away to marry (5)
87 Forbidden by law (7) 89 Ginger up (7) 90 Easy to see or understand
(7) 91 Edit the slimming plan
(anag) (4) 92 Vision (5) 94 Wireless (5)
95 Abroad (8) 97 A building used as a home (5) 99 Roman garment (4) 100 William -------, Scottish patriot (7) 103 To wash through (5) 104 A nursemaid for children (5) 106 Handover (8) 108 Jealousy (4) 112 Cab (4) 115 American state (7) 117 Chief town of Skye (7) 118 Rectangular (6) 120 Urge or incite (3,2) 121 Nought (4) 122 Scope (6) 123 A rebounding bullet (8) 124 Clan (5) 125 Of or relating to the earth (11) 126 Cure (6) 127 Lacking fat (4) 128 Billy Connolly is the ‘Big ---’ (3)
DOWN 1 ------ march or ------ strike (6) 2 Scott wrote Guy --------(9) 3 To put down (7) 4 Group of nine (5) 6 Repeat (7) 7 Defence plea (5) 8 Minor fight or conflict (8) 9 Resulting in death (5) 11 Electricity supply (5) 12 Ninth Greek letter (4) 13 Wear away (5) 14 To demur (6) 15 A sceptic (8,6) 17 Huge, vast (7) 21 This is a golf hazard (6) 27 Photographic device (6) 28 Make the clam serene (anag) (4) 29 A worker (8) 31 Certainly, actually (6) 33 Person skilled in telling stories (9) 34 To caution (4) 35 Outer garment (4,6) 37 Copes (7) 41 Inconsistent and unpredictable (7) 43 Turning tools (6) 45 A short moral story (5) 46 Book collection (7) 49 Wind instrument (8) 50 Informed, conscious (5) 52 To tip over (6)
53 Roofing slabs (5) 56 To remain (4) 58 Tear jaggedly (8) 62 Ornamental tuft from
slates (anag) (6) 63 Cult (4) 64 Informal name for
Hollywood (10) 65 Burdensome (7) 66 An eagle’s nest (5) 70 Lake in E central Scotland
(4,5) 72 Illegal burning (5) 74 To do away with (7) 75 Not pertinent - irrelevant
(6,3,5) 78 Bathroom fitting (5) 79 Large amphibious rodent
(6) 80 Male sibling (7)
82 Death notice (8) 86 Former name of Iran (6) 88 Small mechanical device or appliance (6) 93 Aim or purpose (4) 94 Use bombastic language (4) 96 Crowd actors (6) 98 Ghostly (9) 101 Not strict (7) 102 Mechanic (8) 105 Pined (7) 107 This is a cut of beef (7) 109 Crude (6) 110 Defeated (6) 111 A cobra, for example (5) 113 Fragrance (5) 114 Another or second time (5) 116 Fact (5) 117 First-rate (5) 119 A German man (4)
Just send your completed grid, with a note of your name and address, to: Extra Puzzles Big Xword, PO Box 901, Glasgow G9 2BD. The winner for The Big One crossword will be chosen at random from all correct entries received by Friday, October 15. Usual Daily Record rules apply. Editor’s decision is final.