THE BIG ONE
ACROSS
1. Fighting between
countries (3)
3. Cooked animal flesh (4)
5. Soft felt hat (6)
10. Assistance (7,4)
16. Whinny (5)
18. Scottish lake (4,4)
19. Not present (6)
20. What melt (anag) (4)
22. Perfect (5)
23. Tension (6)
24. Make bigger (7)
25. Quickly (2,5)
26. Mosque prayer leader (4)
29. Mix with a spoon (4)
30. Throw overboard (8)
32. Raising agent (5)
36. Expel (5)
38. Stretchy (7)
39. Curved structure (4)
40. Group of eight (5)
42. Town near Glasgow (8)
44. Fertile spot (5)
45. Death-dealing (5)
47. Cougar (4)
48. Strengthen (7)
50. Not complete or
total (7)
51. Watch carefully (7)
53. Abyss (5)
54. Annie, singer (6)
55. Star-shaped character (8)
57. Afternoon nap (6)
59. Recede (3)
60. Chops wildly (5)
61. Nationality of Adam
Idah or Liam Scales (5)
63. Friend (3)
65. Favourite (3)
67. Are epoch (anag) (3)
68. Mineral (3)
69. Wheat spike (3)
71. Cover (3)
73. Entrance hall (5)
76. Blacksmith’s block (5)
77. Skill (3)
81. Stylus (6)
83. Left to personal
choice (8)
84. Caress lightly or
gently (6)
85. Opposite of south (5)
87. Nil (7)
89. Unusually large (7)
90. Bewails (7)
91. Not hard (4)
92. Imitate (5)
94. Write with unjoined
letters (5)
95. Tries (8)
97. Mother-of-pearl (5)
99. Bring up (4) 100. Area of fruit trees (7)
103. Electronic message (1-4)
104. Cousin’s dad (5)
106. Closely acquainted (8)
108. Policemen, informally (4)
112. Abominable snowman (4)
115. Boxer (7)
117. Pilot’s compartment (7)
118. He flew too near the sun (6)
120. Belonging to them (5)
121. Just, impartial (4)
122. Tropical lizard (6)
123. Strategy (4,4)
124. Rental contract (5)
125. Form of energy (11)
126. Cleaves (6)
127. Unit of length (4)
128. Crafty (3)
DOWN
1. Mr Smith, late Rangers boss (6)
2. Remember (9)
3. Mosque tower (7)
4. Church gangway (5)
6. Ambassador’s residence (7)
7. Very fat (5)
8. Counteracting remedy (8)
9. Female fox (5)
11. Additional (5)
12. Reap fruit (anag) (4)
13. Men’s public lavatory (5)
14. Watch chain (6)
15. Any full-scale practice (5,9)
17. Fish (7)
21. Two-quart bottle (6)
27. Population count (6)
28. Osculate (4)
29. Rush of animals (8)
31. Globe (6)
33. Native Australian (9)
34. Cease (4)
35. Profitable (10)
37. A type of lottery (7)
41. Skin decorations (7)
43. Pantry (6)
45. Stroke of luck (5)
46. Tanned hide (7)
49. Women’s underwear (8)
50. Italian food (5)
52. Rapscallion (6) 53. Strong thick rope (5)
56. Second-hand (4)
58. Obstinate (8)
62. Trustworthy (6)
63. Fossil fuel (4)
64. Town in SE Scotland (10)
65. Religious wayfarer (7)
66. Foolish ideas or talk (5)
70. --------- door or --------pilot (9)
72. Mental picture (5) 74. Low padded seat (7)
75. Incapable of being destroyed (14)
78. Poisonous (5)
79. Swoop (6)
80. Spotty disease (7)
82. False teeth (8)
86. Small cupboard (6)
88. Frozen spike (6)
93. Grumble, complain (4)
94. ---- ball or ---- by ear (4) 96. Gripping tool (6) 98. Slingshots (9)
101. Edinburgh, for example (7)
102. Scottish town (8)
105. Having died out (7)
107. The ‘Scottish play’ (7)
109. Serious epidemic (6)
110. Niggardly, mean (6)
111. Continental quilt (5)
113. Wading bird (5) 114. Lawful (5) 116. Thin porridge (5)
117. Length of metal links (5)
119. Body powder (4)