THE BIG ONE
ACROSS
1. Stitch (3)
3. Highland dress item (4)
5. A danger or risk (6)
10. Very small, minute (11)
16. Ice house (5)
18. Proof (8)
19. Women’s public lavatory (6)
20. Carpet nail (4)
22. Forest clearing (5)
23. A surprise attack (6)
24. Tempts (7)
25. Crossbred hunting dog (7)
26. Bill Forsyth directed Gregory’s ---- (4)
29. Tea, informally (4)
30. Infirmary (8)
32. ----- carpet or black ----- (5)
36. Freight (5)
38. Blow up (7)
39. Area of mown grass (4)
40. Fish-eating water mammal (5)
42. Town on the River Nith (8)
44. Stinks (5)
45. A female fox (5)
47. Form of precipitation (4)
48. Place where weapons are stored (7)
50. Import illegally (7)
51. Disregards (7)
53. Chops wildly (5)
54. ------ dioxide or -----paper (6)
55. A large pot for boiling (8)
57. Courteous (6)
59. Harden (3)
60. Revises tides (anag) (5)
61. To sleep noisily (5)
63. A spider’s trap (3)
65. Viewing organ (3)
67. Wheat spike (3)
68. Born as (3)
69. Belonging to him (3)
71. To signal agreement (3)
73. Male voice (5)
76. Concerning (5)
77. To regret (3)
81. Nervously irritable, tense (2,4)
83. Sidewalk (8)
84. Exclamation of
discovery (6)
85. Move to music (5)
87. Snuggles (7)
89. Mass slaughter (7)
90. Book division (7)
91. Expel from moustache? (4)
92. Flashlight (5)
94. Go by bike (5)
95. Jewellery item (8) 97. To follow (5)
99. Directly above (4)
100. A trade ban (7)
103. Happening (5)
104. Spaghetti, macaroni, etc (5)
106. Booklet (8)
108. Obtains (4)
112. Whip (4)
115. Personal view (7)
117. Flow windingly (7)
118. Raith ------, football team (6)
120. Find space or time for (3,2)
121. Abominable snowman (4)
122. Finger-shaped cream cake (6)
123. Fixed, unchanging (8)
124. Cloth made of flax (5)
125. Despite that (11)
126. Throws (6)
127. Untidy state (4)
128. Pitch (3)
DOWN
1. European country (6)
2. Sleeveless garment (9)
3. Patella (7)
4. Makes secure (5)
6. Word puzzle (7)
7. Stupid, foolish (5)
8. To put to shame (8)
9. Mr Wells, former sprinter (5)
11. Bury (5)
12. Food grain (4)
13. Punctuation mark (5)
14. Agricultural implement (6)
15. Firework (9,5)
17. Herb (7)
21. Skiing race (6)
27. ------ test or small ------ (6)
28. Upper limbs (4)
29. Huge, gigantic (8)
31. Walk like an infant (6)
33. A brimless Scottish woollen cap (9)
34. Vertex (4)
35. Authorisation (10)
37. Crowned head (7)
41. Spite (7)
43. Russian monetary unit (6)
45. Blood vessels (5)
46. Core (7)
49. A romantic song (8) 50. To gaze fixedly (5)
52. Tell as news (6)
53. A rabbit’s cage (5)
56. Sued second-hand (anag) (4)
58. Blameless (8)
62. Goes in (6)
63. The opposite of strong (4)
64. A large newspaper (10)
65. Having died out (7) 66. Weird (5)
70. Town in N Scotland (9)
72. Snow leopard (5)
74. Teach (7)
75. Ordinary, informally (6,2,6)
78. Era (5)
79. To board a ship (6)
80. One who shoes horses (7)
82. False teeth (8) 86. Yell (6)
88. To find (6)
93. Occurring seldom (4)
94. A restaurant cook (4)
96. Of high mountains (6)
98. Resolute (9)
101. Diffident, timid (7)
102. Adversary, antagonist (8)
105. Stupid, obstinate (7)
107. Funeral cars (7)
109. Inn (6) 110. Author (6)
111. Pig’s sound (5)
113. Assumed name (5)
114. Fourteen pounds (5)
116. Northern ----- or Western ----- (5)
117. Elk (5)
119. Cure (4)
Just send your completed grid, with a note of your name and address, to: Funday Puzzler Big Xword, PO Box 901, Glasgow G9 2BD. The winner for The Big One crossword will be chosen at random from all correct entries received by Friday, November 18. Usual Daily Record rules apply. Editor’s decision is final.