February 2000 24 x 24 Barred Grid Cryptic
by Cullen

  • Across

    Irish writer in the news grade, begorrah! (6,7,4)
    15 Chase to find an Oscar for 'Chu-Chin-Chow'? (5)
    19 Sooner a nobleman that is king (7)
    20 Sell about a litre (6)
    22 Alert and trying to look big (2,4,4)
    23 Sheep's head presented by butcher with expertise (5)
    24 One may let you know when it's time for a rise (5-5)
    25 Kent DSS gets it wrong, so stops (7)
    27 Pythia's place in model philosophy (6)
    29 Ducks the consequences of unbridled desire (6)
    31 Impounded? Check on this bloomer! (10)
    34 'Neither....rash judgments nor the *** of selfish men' (Wordsworth) (6)
    35 Become member of Board (3,2)
    36 Bacchic reveller made another order (6)
    38 Pot plant? (5)
    40 Inflated object that blows up like a jerk (9)
    42 The language of Somerset (4)
    44 Dressing - popular with the Victorians (8)
    46 Jackets to wear for expensive holidays? (7)
    47 Country intended to lose a report (9)
    50 We turned up outside a gambling centre on a previous occasion (6)
    52 Best part of the tavern to hold a seance in? (7)
    57 Moulding two foods together (7)
    59 Flower for right-handed individual (5)
    60 Note changing direction gets tighter (6)
    61 At all times between partners - what a bore! (6)
    62 Points he can alter and improve (7)
    63 Copies in the cheapest of materials (4)
    64 Patriarch is one in a hundred (5)
    65 Fight for the title-holder? (8)
    68 Where people hold hands (4,5)
    70 Wince, like small bird (6)
    73 Kitty had a meal swallowing nut first! (4)
    75 Stewed eels, since eaten, appear in the contracts (6)
    78 The wolf in the beast epic lives on decapitated fish (7)
    80 The cost of travel over and above food in Hampshire (7)
    81 It might be stored between Hampshire and Devon (6)
    82 Not signed immediately? (4)
    83 A hurry, on second day, to reach place in Tanzania (6)
    84 Start carrying weapons - and give a warm reception (9)
    85 Tree in flower in Cornwall is only a trifle (8)
    86 Uplifting story about one port (5)
    88 Bet's chalked up for mount (4)
    90 A sincere wish, after all - there is nothing better (3,4)
    93 Throws the headless birds (6)
    96 Do I die digesting poisonous salt? (6)
    97 It soothes beginner at centre of rescue (5)
    99 In no way resembling a close call (1,3,3)
    101 Creature imprisoned by us back in Berlin (7)
    102 'When from Janiculan heights thundered the *** of France' (Clough: Amours de Voyage) (6)
    103 Fishing tackle for river with automatic rise (5,4)
    107 Bangles made for Indian lancers? (7)
    110 Finished sad and cheated (4,4)
    112 Back wrong horse's gait (4)
    113 Blows for farmworkers (9)
    114 Plant nasty if carelessly handled (5)
    116 Going through Asia, missing out a country (6)
    118 Feature of Bhutan - desolate mountains (5)
    120 Like a volcano that's not extinct, with last of smoke of a brown colour circling around (6)
    121 Spectators who don't get involved (10)
    125 ENEEEEEE makes one green (6)
    128 Proudly proclaimed the credit due (6)
    129 Red wine is brought after the meal in this catering establishment (3,4)
    130 Sole dealer, as Hamlet knew Polonius to be (10)
    131 Behindhand in following the English? Buck up! (5)
    132 Gives favourable thought to as host? (10)
    133 Changes suit an American town (6)
    134 Chaps take a long time to create households (7)
    135 Points out aura in Scotland (5)
    136 One who won't forget being rooked at this old tavern? (8,3,6)

  • Down

    Ladies of France (8)
    Join in and have some (4,4)
    Latticed screen used to quiz enemy leader (6)
    Get real hot - i.e. with this! (3,6)
    Doesn't let one forget that soldiers have brains (7)
    General allowance? (5)
    Beauty's co-star (5)
    Butter gets soft - it's a swindle (4)
    Pleasant French resort (4)
    10 Tired nobody out (3,2)
    11 It sounds a rough measure to test the separation of nave and chancel (4,6)
    12 College lecturers perform some fractions (7)
    13 Wondrous shoe if changed makes a royal lineage (5,2,7)
    14 Sports centre with new matter (9)
    15 Fool Oriental soldier about a weapon (7)
    16 It helps one to overcome the country walk barrier (5)
    17 Greek island has bit of holiday club (4)
    18 Being in a German town, go to church (7)
    21 Beheaded writer tortured in Germany (5)
    26 Solo duet? (3,2,3)
    28 Obliquely question misuse of cane (7)
    30 Being so valiant saves a baronial collapse (2,5,2,1,4)
    32 Member of the family is taken in by Frenchwoman's forms of block-building (9)
    33 The organic basis of bone in nose is very complex (6)
    37 Some of the Americans bring a hoax into town (8)
    39 Stuff a variety of trees can yield (8)
    41 Colour workers proverbially known for their language? (8)
    43 Find part of Mombasa unappealing - it's hot! (5)
    45 A civic head about to give ground (4)
    48 Barley-water concoction is neat (6)
    49 Familiar Shakespeare play a safe bet for the financier? (8,6)
    51 Sort of theatre that lacks aspiration? (3)
    53 Quiet dresser but could make a sound (6)
    54 Consumers in the main (9)
    55 Kind of reserve preventing joint action (9)
    56 Upset in France she's discovered some elements of magnetic flux density (6)
    58 There's a right understanding about her (5)
    66 A doctor, in new car, pursued by the mad genie of a beneficent millionaire (6,8)
    67 Such adventure is perhaps archaic (3)
    69 Hadji's grounds for fervour? (6)
    71 Presswoman's apparently tough leader (4,4)
    72 After having ruminated, he got married after a century (6)
    74 To doctors they're grave situations (5)
    75 What follows if the right step has been taken (4,4)
    76 Reel slang off - probable cause of bad feeling (9)
    77 Depressed at heavy consistency of cake (3)
    78 Where once were David's arms and Horatio's arm (2,1,5)
    79 Guide loses direction on finding flag (6)
    87 Convict's file cut bar finally (5)
    89 Take steps only the adept can contrive (3-5)
    91 Put in pies it makes nice flowers (3)
    92 Indians sat around one fighting in Nicaragua (10)
    93 John Buchan's hero has a girl inside (6)
    94 A Spanish hero having a sharp taste (4)
    95 I give a hint to listeners with this (3-4)
    98 Hate to lug around a large sum (4,5)
    100 A bomb to discourage paying the landlord (9)
    104 Left to die, tortured but not loudly - then washed (8)
    105 Distaste caused by this most laid back of attitudes (8)
    106 One hundred and ten has entry to deal with (7)
    108 'And not by *** windows only, When daylight comes, comes in the light' (Clough) (7)
    109 Servile East European takes his orders (7)
    111 Coin's in this group (7)
    115 Be a miser about your daily work (5)
    117 Waste of time to stitch beforehand (6)
    119 Go in for chips without fish (5)
    121 He reverses an interdict about an Irish playwright (5)
    122 Chilly? First signs of any laryngitis, get in doctor (5)
    123 The German scholar's skin (5)
    124 It's an Indian custom to write lampoons when given rise (4)
    126 Black spot can upset stomachs (4)
    127 She rings when the artist is out (4)


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