Loughborough Echo

Giant Crossword

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ACROSS 1 Digression­s (6) 5 __ Shades of Grey, 2015 film (5) 8 Fashionabl­e (6)

10 Not current (8) 14 Cautious money management (6) 16 Religion (5) 21 Hawaiian port (8) 22 Symbol denoting a number (7)

23 Rainy spells (7)

25 Best man (9) 26 Hypothesis (6) 27 __ Collymore, former Liverpool striker (4) 28 __ Hegerberg, Norwegian footballer (3)

29 Flight of steps (8) 32 Deplete (3,2)

33 Go by (4) 34 Defence (5)

35 __ in Manhattan, 2002 romantic comedy (4) 38 Missiles (6) 40 Woodland god (5) 42 Making petty distinctio­ns (13) 44 Prevent legally (5) 46 Uttered (10)

48 Grand, splendid (6) 51 Wine (7) 54 Cultivated areas (6,4) 55 Deluge (8)

59 Empty (6) 60 Colonnade (9) 62 Ameliorate (7) 63 Flower part (5) 64 English city (9) 67 Spontaneou­s (9) 69 Presents (5)

71 The __, 1999 thriller starring Al Pacino and Russell Crowe (7) 74 1991 album by 91 Down (9) 77 Serviette (6)

78 For an initiated minority (8) 81 Board game equipment (10) 82 Altar screen (7) 84 Crimes, offences (6) 87 Restore to consciousn­ess (5,5) 90 Sluice (5)

92 Escape tunnel (6,7) 95 Chemical compound (5) 96 Decline (6) 98 Nuisance, informally 100 Leers (5) 101 Disastrous (4) 102 Custom (5)

104 Objects (8)

107 Alice __, Starter for 10 and Belgravia actress (3) 109 Average (4) 111 Leyton __, football club (6) 112 Sailors (9) 114 Uppermost part of a building (4-3) 117 Intense (7) 118 Impressive (8)

119 50 First __, 2004 comedy (5) 120 Hoop (6)

121 Lag (8)

122 Anne __, second wife of King Henry VIII (6) 123 Clear (5)

124 Parisian palace (6) DOWN 2 Moped (7) 3 Inundate (5) 4 Researches (7) 5 Animal life (5) 6 Wonderful (9)

7 Sweet potatoes (4) 8 Phrases (5)

9 __ Lynam, TV and radio presenter (3) 11 Farewell (3)

12 Self (3)

13 Bulwark (7) 14 Volumes (5)

15 __ Burgundy, Will Ferrell’s character in Anchorman (3) 17 Play guitar (5) 18 Shifted (5) 19 System of philosophy (4) 20 Type of wool (6) 24 Japanese food (5) 25 Wildebeest (3) 26 Capital of Libya (7) 30 __ Morgan, screenwrit­er of The Split and The Iron Lady (3) 31 Gioachino __, Italian composer (7) 34 Mountain range (4) 36 __ Age, 2002 animation (3) 37 Fine plaster (6)

38 Feel unwell (3)

39 Art of folding paper (7) 40 Zodiac sign (7) 41 Controls (5) 42 Easily within reach (5) 43 Before deductions (5) 44 Something revealing (3-6) 45 Foot lever (5)

47 Sign of agreement (3) 49 Race of warrior women in Greek mythology (7) 50 Tottenham __, football team (7) 52 Unutterabl­e (9) 53 Suggested (7) 54 Liberty (7)

56 Until the present (2,2,3) 57 Mocking (7)

58 South Pacific island (4) 61 Spellbound (4) 65 Sponsor (7) 66 Rebuke (7)

68 US R&B singer of Burn and Love in This Club (5) 70 Persian rulers (5) 72 Posts (6)

73 Return to (7)

75 Jules __, French writer (5) 76 Signal receiver (5) 79 Weight unit (3)

80 Two lines of verse (7) 83 Cowardly (9) 85 Female pronoun (3) 86 Poems (4) 88 Brazilian city (3) 89 Embedded (6)

91 US grunge band (7) 93 Roll of tobacco (5) 94 Commercial­s (abbr.) (3) 96 Return of illness (7) 97 Medical instrument (7) 98 Dull (5)

99 Weird (5) 101 Adorn (5)

103 Call for help (init.) (3) 105 Furrows (4)

106 The Devil (5) 108 Decree (5) 109 Unpleasant (5) 110 Dread (4) 112 Pouch (3) 113 Biblical priest (3) 115 Select (3)

116 In favour of (3)

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