MEGA CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1. Drums section

6. Smothered

10. Alpine landslides

15. Military equipment

18. Study of nature

19. Wobblier

20. Identical

22. TV rerun

23. Exercise regularly (4,3) 24. Banished

25. Computer key

26. Belittle

28. Intimate (feelings)

30. Acid drug (1,1,1)

31. Be

32. Three-piece combo

33. Air bed

34. Cross

35. Exploited

37. Lake Erie state

39. Flipper

40. Shows agreement

42. Curry accompaniment 45. Chastise

48. Forearm bone

49. Active European volcano 50. Affirms

53. Career athlete

54. 1/10th

56. Recycle

59. Just right

61. Observe

62. Killer whale

63. Yes

64. Cooking fuel

65. Pounce

66. Crescent

68. Entrant

69. Blunder, faux ...

70. Prosecutor

71. Orange jam

72. Bubbling bath

73. Pontoon (6-3)

74. Infected matter

76. Behind schedule

78. Not any place

80. French goodbye

81. Deceitful

84. Jungle creeper

85. Threadbare

87. Furtive

89. Aromatic herb

92. Depraved

94. Slide

96. Give up (claim)

97. Recoiled (4,4) 98. Coffee bar 100. Compass point 101. Motels

104. Bunny 105. Broadcast (signal) 107. Cleft

108. Is conspicuous (6,3) 112. Church senior 113. Imagined 115. Hurries 117. Conclude 118. Organised crime figure 120. Wilt

121. Shirt shoulder strap 123. Utensil

125. Mr & ...

126. Able to be lived in 127. Body pouch 129. Dumbfound 130. Laundry clip

131. Fah, soh, ... 133. Blueprint

134. Type of plastic (1,1,1) 136. Wield

137. Indian social class 140. Nose 141. Watering hole 142. Deer flesh 146. Fragrant tea, ... Grey 147. Poker stake 148. Willing torturers 152. Two-sided contest 154. Blood vessel

155. Have

156. Avid

157. Money rolls 159. Army trumpet 160. Discharge 162. Several

164. Poke

165. Alien craft (1,1,1) 167. Boisterous

169. Bicker 171. Contribute 173. Crowd fights 174. Strain (resources) 175. Being fond of

177. Tiny insects 178. Arrives (5,2)

179. Bill

180. Fully satisfy 181. Feather-filled quilts 182. Accedes

183. Cosmic units (5,5)

DOWN

1. Bell-shaped fruit

2. Skateboard facilities

3. Maintains

4. Copycat

5. Japanese martial artist 6. More submissive

7. One- on- one (4-2- 4)

8. Legality

9. Make (liquor)

10. A second time

11. Beekeeper

12. Tan curly-haired dog 13. Restores to health

14. Hut

16. Swamp grasses

17. Become independent 20. Quiet

21. News outlets

27. Very determined

29. Impartiality

35. Perfect world

36. Reverberation

38. Hair dye

41. Denmark natives

43. Requests

44. Works of fiction

46. Nourishing

47. Unravel

51. Bridge fee barrier

52. Individually

55. Misprint

56. Lowdown people

57. Rough (diamonds)

58. Burst

60. Facts

67. Scratching

69. Rallying lecture (3,4) 72. Shuts noisily

75. Steam burn

77. Exposing as false

79. Aimless journeyers

82. Reassure

83. US coins

86. Nuclear weapon (1- 4) 88. Snapshots book

90. Cry of discovery

91. Before (poetic)

92. Fox’s lair

93. Banned pesticide (1,1,1) 94. Snow-runner

95. Charged particle

98. Slender boat

99. Shopfronts

102. Naked sunbathers

103. Small leafy stem

104. Withdrawal of statement 106. Reckless outlaws 108. Fortified 109. Antiquated 110. Control 111. Adrenalin junkie (6- 6) 114. Greasiness 116. Excused

119. Long films

122. Level

124. Signify

125. Cleaned (floor) 128. Castro’s subjects 130. Short tubular pasta 132. Residence

135. Inlet 138. Allocations 139. Changeover period 141. Leaning Tower of ... 143. Jostles 144. Absorbed (food) 145. Exceed credit limit 149. Joining

150. Slack 151. Fine-tunes

153. Policy reversal (1- 4) 158. Neglected to (4’1) 161. Visual impairment 163. Mottos 166. Destined

168. Hornet relatives 170. Judge’s hammer 172. Prince William’s mother 173. Headquarters 176. Jellies

“DON’T THINK THE GARDEN LOSES ITS ECSTASY IN WINTER. IT’S QUIET, BUT THE ROOTS ARE DOWN THERE RIOTOUS.”

RUMI