BRAINTEASER 1
ACROSS
1. Sprouting process
9. Adapting to stage play
15. Slant
16. Mobile phone company
17. Dessert, … brûlée
19. Clergyman
21. Respond to stimulus
22. Also-ran
23. Bye!
24. Former US president, Barack …
25. Seaweed-and-rice roll
27. Eyelid swelling
29. Western alliance
31. Privileged few
33. Severe (illness)
35. Removed
38. Long firearm
40. Sharp twinge
42. Jewelled crown
43. Baking agent
44. Scroungers
46. Snatch
48. Olympic award
49. District
50. Sicilian volcano
51. All … on deck
53. Suspends
55. Indian bread
56. Consecrates as priest
58. Part exchange (5-2)
61. Battery size (1,1,1)
63. Ooh and …
65. Understudy (5-2)
69. Astronaut, ‘Buzz’ …
71. In the distance
72. Raw recruits
74. Evita, … Peron
75. Flipping, … over
76. Gorilla or monkey
77. Exuberant shout
78. Public service
79. Mob crime boss 80. Least cluttered 81. Doubters 84. Rescue team, … party 87. Former somebody (3-4) 91. Cash point (1,1,1) 93. Gene acid (1,1,1) 94. Oiled 97. Monarch’s residences 100. Greek cheese 101. Ventured
103. Physio
105. Glide aloft 106. Swerve 107. Lamenting 108. Lengthy account 109. Imaginative plan 110. Whimper
111. Dodge (duty)
113. Lazy, bone …
115. Jig
117. Steam burn
120. Use dragnet 122. Wading bird
124. Tea, … Grey
127. Folk tale 129. Requested, … for 131. Fluorescent colours 133. Tennessee’s neighbour 134. Desert resting place 136. Country, Sri … 137. Expiring
138. Fool
139. Dog-like predator 140. Type of marjoram 141. Cinderella’s ugly kin 142. False leads (3,8)
DOWN
1. Bands together (5,2) 2. Garden tools
3. Sloping (font) 4. Circle curves 5. Inactive 6. Brother’s daughter 7. Skin disorder 8. Ferocious 9. SW England county 10. Royal racecourse 11. Spiritual glow 12. Jewish nation 13. From Baghdad 14. Assembles 18. Calibrate again 20. Cancel (mission) 26. Tired-looking 28. 365-day periods 30. Swamped 32. Beirut is there 34. Great Salt Lake state 35. Lion trainer 36. Actress, Nicole … 37. Lingerie fabric 39. Needle-leafed trees 41. Communion table 45. Florida port 47. Farm shed
49. Eons
52. Twofold
54. Throb painfully 56. Rowing blade 57. California’s … Diego 58. By means of 59. Sufferings 60. Large building 62. Insistent 64. Postpone (trial) 66. Flight cost 67. Cabbies 68. Contradicted 70. Necessities 71. Sleepy sighs 73. Covert operative
75. Decimal number 82. Harvard’s rival 83. Little devil 85. Promos 86. Concern 88. Onward
89. Show of courage 90. Similar (to)
92. Each person, per … 94. Festival, Mardi … 95. Attacks 96. Internet post 98. Land measures 99. Spurred (on) 101. College supervisor 102. Less moist
103. …, steady, go 104. Actor, Eric … 109. Draws in air
110. Tiny
112. Film producers, Joel and … Coen 114. Makes beloved 116. Historical records 118. Scratched deeply 119. Peru beasts
121. Tap seal 123. Mountain chain 125. Throwaway line 126. Nigerian city 127. Rural mansion 128. Moderated, … down 130. Designer, Calvin … 132. Lyrical poems 135. Song, ‘Auld Lang …’