166 MAY 2017
The ColossusCOMPILED BYCHRISTINE LOVATT
ACROSS
- Re-evoked, – memories
- Dove relatives
- Cooks’ whisks
- Very keen, – about it
- Clumsy lout
- Nappies
20.Xmas cake, – log - Diabolical
- Buttonhole posy
- Brusque
- Watchful
- Modifies
- 100 cm
- UK flying force (1,1,1)
- Frighten
- Desert illusion
- Couple, Mr and –
- Blood-sucking worm
- Private instructor
- Work bread dough
- Punctual, on the –
44.Endorse, approve - Span, breadth
46.Game park tours
48.Irish county
50.Snow monster - Bringer of bad luck
- 18-hole sport
- Swab lightly
- Slaughtered
- Zero altitude (3,5)
60.First Bible book - Assist
64.Harpooning - Was indebted to
68.Dangles
69.Wicket bar - Otherwise, or –
- Become set
- Bounding walks
- Cabbie’s vehicle
- Graze crust
- Superficially
indulge, – in - Electric fish
- Wind-borne toys
- Heart monitor
test (1,1,1) - Dutch cheese
- Sheltered side
90.Mists,–up - Adored
92 .Cloth scrap
94.Fabric join
96.Shonky scheme
98.Ewe’s young
99.Danger
100.Afghan capital
102.Radio knob
104.Leg joint
106.Twisted around
107.Anticipated
109.Level, row - Knifed
112.Liqueur, – Maria
113.Yearn, – for
114.Grass section
116.Right in the middle,- centre
118.Counterfeit
119.Plane part
121.Colorants
123.Understood
125.Off-limits, – area (2-2)
127.Commuter coach
128.Manicured items
130.Contends
132.Bottled gas (1,1,1)
134.Profit
136.Brazil’s – Paulo
137.Loathing
139.Boarding school
bedroom (abbrev)
140.Fibber
141.Achievements
143.Musical,– Christ
Superstar
145.Inconsiderable
147.Spider’s trap
148.Employed
149.Animal skin
150.Agony, great –
152.Bank account
withdrawal
154.Cheap, a – a dozen
156.Peruse, – a magazine
158.Fix, repair
159.Captures, – criminal
161.Mum and –
163.Exceedingly
165.Travel onhorse
167.Moral wrongs
169.Diluted, watered down
171.Bogus
173 .Blushes
175.Tropical fruit
177.Kilt
179.Arabian sultanate
181.Hitler’s regime, Third –
182.Small rodents
183.Staid, – and proper
185.Ermine creature
187.Highlander
189.Amount after tax
190.Alley
191.Speechless
192.Rowing implement
194.Hillbilly
196.That girl
197.Business attire
198.Can’t do it, – possible
199.Waltzed
202.Bolshevik leader
204.Installed, – carpet
205.Knitting wool
206.Thin wood sheet
208.Damage
210.Finnish phone firm
212.Ordinary people
213.Trading centre
214.Kitchen flooring
216.Marsh grass
217.Conditional release
219.Distributes (5,3)
221.Stoneworker
223.Wound blemish
225.Moose
226.Splashes through
water
227.Take part in game
230.Movie,The – Wears
Prada
232.Gave off
235.Roman garments
236.Carpentry tools
238.Sprinted
240.Dissuade
242.Growl
243.Vaccine
244.Computer spacing key
245.Comedian, Josh –
246.Reverie
247.Parched
248.Squander
249.Honour, pay – to
251.Globe
253.May or October
255.Pricing
256.Ye s vo t e s
258.Seethe
259.Discard, – of
260.Pull sharply
261.Asphalt
262.Stopping temporarily,- proceedings
263.Dampen
264.Demonstrators
DOWN- Heaters
- Tennessee’s
neighbour State - Representatives
- Simple
- Fangs
- Hesitate
- Inactive
- Canadian province,
- Scotia
- Departs port
- Eucalypts (3,5)
- Male antelope
- Fearful
- Issue from
- Piercing with long pin
- Wise Men’s gift
- Small spot, – of colour
- Inscribe
- Facts
- Seniority, army –
- Enquire intrusively
- Bravery decoration
- Stiff Elizabethan collars
- In favour of
- London suburb, – Court
- Scottish hero, Rob –
- Wrinkled
- Fables
40.Dump, get – of - Curtain
- Made on loom
46.Ballads - Swedish car firm
49. Succumb
51. Precious stone
52. Heredity units
54. Bigotry
56. Nose-related
58. Probable arrival
hour (1,1,1)
59. Mineral veins
60.Opened wide
61. At – and sevens
63. Spotted cubes
65. Resist authority
66.No score in soccer
68.Pub, eg
70. Boys, youths
72. – and puffed
73. Boat carnivals
74. Furious
76. Chilled drink, – tea
78. Lumbar region
80.Ball-filled cushions
81. Lodges deeply
83. Seoul is there, South –
84.Infant
86.Trot or canter, eg
88.Supplies crew,- the boat
- Merciful
- Uncommon
- Wind flurry
- Servant
- Encountered
99.Coal mines
100.Chinese island, Hong –
101.Glorifies
103.Welsh emblem
105.Deserve, merit
107.Shark flippers
108.Droll
110.Tinkled
113.Shrine visitor
115.Chops down
117.Causes hearing loss
118.Welded
119.Feasted, – and dined
120.Renter, charterer
122.Observes covertly
124.Brandish
126.Desert waterhole
129.Plan, ambition
130.Pledge
131.Fire fragment
133.Gallivant
135.Crooner, – King Cole
137.Focal point
138.Incidental comments
142.Jet-bath
144.Tranquillisation
146.Large Australian birds
148.Cow’s milk sac
149.Biros, eg
151.Utter, – nonsense
153.Cars’ petrol
containers
155.Repeat
157.We breathe it
158.Vietnam’s Ho Chi – City
159.Not one, – of them
160.Whacked with
sweeping blow
162 .Divine being
164.Smoked pork pieces
166.Paradise garden
167.Religious splinter
group
168.Map pressure line
170.Dribble
172.Speed of sound
measure
174.Slimming program, eg
175.Flavouring herb
176.Tennis hotshot
178.Removed, – away
180.Carol,The First –
182.Most important
184.Showily virile
186.Luciano Pavarotti, eg
188.Movie,Lady and the –
190.Loiter stealthily
191.Rules, do’s and – (3’2)
193.Kingdom
195.Enjoys
197.Bargain sell-off
198.Geeks
200.Story boy, – Baba
201.Await with horror
203.Nephew’s sister
205.Mayonnaise
ingredient centre
206.Windmill arms
207.Perfume, – de Cologne
209.Pondered
211.Throat lump,- apple (4’1)
212.Pleat, fabric –
213.Dear Sir or –
214.Cosmetic crayons
215.Changed position
218.Stagger
219.Netherlands city,
The –
220.Bland in flavour
222.Element with the
symbol N
224.Citrus peel, eg
226.More deserving
228.Stimulates
229.Edible tuber
231.Lascivious smirk
233.Pastry, jam –
234.Attempt
235.Assessment
236 .US, Uncle –
237.Prized shellfish
239.Local inhabitant
241.Capital of Morocco
243.Less crazy
244.Human trunks
248.Female
250.Matured
252.Child’s building blocks
253.Silent
254.Revise article, eg
257.Delicious!
Solution in next
month’s issue.