BRAINBUSTER
NO 901
ACROSS 1 Good luck! (5,1,3) 6 Without warning (8) 10 Achieve (10) 17 Disparage (5) 18 Fervent (7) 19 Unsuitable (5) 20 Alternative (5) 21 Museum head (7) 23 Germinate (6) 26 Devastate (6) 27 Movie genre
(short) (3-2) 28 Prone to stealing (5-8) 30 Trapping device (5) 31 Nun’s title (6) 33 Dirties (6) 35 Original video
animation (abbr) (3) 36 Provide lodging (11) 40 Glaze (a cake) (3) 42 Dutch cheese (5) 43 Love intensely (5) 45 Belonging to them (6) 47 Possible outcome (11) 50 Emotions (8) 52 Bredies (5) 55 In order (2) 56 Do, re . . . (2) 57 Total (5) 58 Most important (4) 60 In pieces (5) 61 Doctor (5) 62 Head of the Roman
Catholic Church (4) 63 Just (4) 64 Wound dressing (5) 65 Look secretly (4) 66 Reddish brown (6) 69 Story (4) 70 Gobbles (4) 71 Summer shoe (6) 74 Republic (abbr) (3) 76 Condemned openly (9) 79 Drops on a cool
surface (3) 80 Feel sorrow (3) 81 Watch (3) 82 Bite (5) 83 Administered a measure of medicine (5) 87 Stationed (5) 89 Rascal (5) 91 Sound made by
a horn (4) 93 Hard work (literary) (7) 94 Broad (4) 95 Small horse (4) 96 Sloping channel (5) 97 Yearns (5) 98 Existence (4) 99 Spiked club (4) 100 Serious in mind (7) 102 Binds (4) 104 Church donation (5) 105 Rides the waves (5) 107 Skin that covers
the head (5) 109 Sacred song (5) 111 Amigo (3) 112 Bristlelike
appendage (3) 114 Austere (3) 116 Peach (9) 120 Take to court (3) 122 Horse-drawn
carriage (6) 124 Light meal (4) 125 Tidy (4) 127 Goad (inf ) (6) 129 Cliff (4) 130 Heap (5) 131 Provisions (4) 132 Alike (4) 133 Magic spell (5) 134 Equipped with guns (5) 135 Extinct flightless bird (4) 136 Barges (5) 138 Helium (symbol) (2) 139 Island (abbr) (2) 141 Sewerage (5) 143 Traditional tales (8) 145 Destructive (11) 147 Type of seed (6) 149 Weeps (5) 150 Freight (5) 152 Throw in a high
arc (3) 153 Determined (11) 156 Mine shaft (3) 157 Write illegibly (6) 160 Meters (6) 163 Twilled fabric (5) 164 Memories (13) 166 Bacon bit (5) 168 Vary (6) 169 Tortoise (6) 170 Deference (7) 174 Obey (5) 175 Sweepstake (SA) (5) 176 Late (7) 177 Tibiae (5) 178 Daughter of a
step-parent (10) 179 Nonchalance (8) 180 Inhabitants (9) DOWN 1 Commercial names (6) 2 Free (10) 3 Traditional SA treat (11) 4 Reptiles (7) 5 Particle (7) 6 Urban pollution (4) 7 Plate (4) 8 Purification (8) 9 Hooligan (4) 11 Pretence (7) 12 Fugitives (7) 13 Avowedly (11) 14 Breathing in (10) 15 Careen (6) 16 Male title (3) 22 Carmen, eg (5) 24 Harangue (6) 25 Exclamation (2) 26 Cure (6) 29 Prickles (6) 32 ii (3) 34 Uppermost levels
of land or sea (8) 35 Upbeat (10) 37 Frolicked (8) 38 Give out (4) 39 In poor condition (8) 41 In the direction of
sunrise (8) 44 Moray (3) 46 Restrain (6) 48 Red fruit (6) 49 River in South
America (6) 51 Go by (time) (6) 53 Stay in one place (4) 54 Scattered liquid (7) 57 Walked quietly (7) 59 Neither . . . (3) 62 Peter . . . (fictional
character) (3) 67 Recollection (11) 68 Explode (5) 72 Came to (5) 73 Removed salt (from
water) (11) 75 Focus (the mind) (9) 77 At any time (4) 78 Epoch (3) 79 Conclusions (9) 84 Direct the course (5) 85 Challenges (5) 86 Wed (5) 87 Music genre (5) 88 Partitions
(anatomy) (5) 90 Female sheep (3) 92 Definite article (3) 94 Moist (3) 95 Domestic animal (3) 99 Magazines, eg (5) 101 Glance over (4) 103 Bender (5) 105 Snow vehicles (7) 106 Enemy (3) 108 Marches (7) 110 Malicious (10) 113 Joyful (8) 115 . . . in the nest (intruder) (6) 116 Closeness (8) 117 Students (6) 118 Moscow is its capital (6) 119 Portal (8) 121 Unfastens (6) 123 Expected (3) 124 Prokaryotic organisms (8) 126 Rise and fall of sea level (4) 128 Stop (3) 136 Sanctity (11) 137 Curve (3) 138 . . . and hearty (4) 140 Road marking (6) 142 Took ownership
again (11) 144 Remove
restrictions (10) 145 Salesperson (6) 146 Appliance (6) 148 Ghost (10) 151 African antelope (3) 154 . . . in (agree) (5) 155 Elegant (8) 158 Sweepstakes (7) 159 . . . with your
conscience (7) 161 Apart (literary) (7) 162 Collects (7) 163 Cutting instrument (6) 165 15th-century Japanese drama (2) 167 Goes by (6) 170 Decay (3) 171 Neither good nor bad (2-2) 172 Pitch (4) 173 Amounts of more than nine (4)