Mega Crossword 1

ACROSS

1. Clear (war zone) of civilians

5. Arrange for maximum effect

11. Weigh up

15. Seed vessel

16. Argentina’s …Peron

17. Medieval king’s clown

19. Bubonic plague, Black …

21. Guide direction of

23. UK university city

25. Squander

27. Forced entry (5-2)

28. Inuit snow shelter

30. First man in space, … Gagarin

31. Pencil-mark remover

32. Dog breed, red …

33. Defrost

34. Computer bugs

35. Bucharest is there

36. Supermarket section

38. Cow calls

40. Sparrow or canary

42. Put bullet in (gun)

44. Jolly laugh (2,2)

45. Man-made fibre

46. Salesmen

48. Design

49. Thin fog

50. Stew, … bucco

51. Foundation garment

52. Mongolian desert

53. Flatten

54. Russia’s … Mountains

55. Irritation

56. Parchment roll

58. Tapering

59. Small stone

61. Daisy-like flower

63. Great number

64. Head covering

65. Student’s written

assignment

67. Unnecessary

69. Fixed gaze

71. Ethiopia’s capital, Addis …

73. Give therapy to

74. Leisurely wander

76. Swiss cereal

78. Tense situation

80. Flip (coin)

82. Data

83. Baseball fielder

85. Electric socket converter

89. Providers of loans

91. Earth’s glacial period (3,3)

93. Legal knowledge

94. Birthplace of St Francis

96. On & on, ad …

98. Burgle

99. Lout

100. Nominal

102. Assumed identity

103. Vine’s clinging arm

104. Degrade

105. Surface (road)

106. Bullfight cry

107. Elderly spinster (3,4)

108. Topple

110. Actor, … Roth

112. Stay

114. Red blood cell deficiency

117. Razors

120. Thankless person

123. Foliage part

125. Honey insects

127. Guru

128. Exertion

131. Short raids

133. Noughts

134. Tier

135. Vaccine

136. Hindu social rank

137. Stockholm native

140. Lyrical poem

141. American republic (1,1,1)

142. Symbolic brooch

145. Muddled

147. Fondness for past

148. Security detachment

150. Maidenhair or bracken

151. Altered colour of

152. Glance

153. Streetcar

154. Criticise

156. Graven image

158. Ballet skirt

160. Susceptible

162. Starchy tubers

163. Produced (offspring)

164. Shop light, … sign

165. Netting

166. Snake sound

167. Radar bleep

168. Ark builder

170. Children’s writer, … Potter

172. Italian Mrs

173. Son of Adam & Eve

174. Misdemeanours

177. Bereaved wives

179. Bluefin creature

180. Model-plane wood

182. Annual allowance

183. At an angle

185. Hinder

187. Ringworm

188. Synthetic material

189. Shrub borders

191. Make last, … out

192. Japanese carp

193. Hand motions

194. Successors

195. Salon workers

DOWN

1. Savoured

2. Abdominal muscles

3. Fit to be flown

4. Tide movements,

… & flows

5. Requisitions

6. Zodiac crustaceans

7. Anaesthetic gas

8. Jobs

9. Spy, secret …

10. Weirder

11. Tea, … Grey

12. Snootiness

13. Bustle

14. Conferred

18. Play down

20. Quakes

22. Shirtfront accessories

24. Combat losses

26. Alcohol abstainers

29. Royal Air Force officer (5,7)

37. Lauds

38. Impetus

39. Drench

40. Avid reader

41. Long dry spells

43. Wattle tree

44. Heave

47. Lone

57. Lame walker’s aid

60. Introduction (4-2)

62. Cheep

66. Tint

68. Harmfully

69. Slithered

70. European currency unit

72. Anti-slavery campaigners

73. Machine maintenance workers

75. Most populous continent