December 2004 - 24 x 24 Barred Grid
by Bob Gregory

Across

3Dreadful chap is a liar, and hypocritical (11)
11Give in the French halberd type weapon (6)
15Blue-stocking in place of queen? (5)
19Japanese litter without edge, it seems (7)
20Each reform takes place in the Middle of this district (6)
22Pointers to quarrels (10)
23Shots, but not at soccer (5)
24A woman's territory? (2,4,4)
25Regards the lot as O.K. perhaps (5,2)
27Hooked by meat, tucked in (6)
29Article in paper is a hoax (6)
31Are they from Grand Island? Ask inside (10)
34Divine females at sea agree changes in advance? The reverse (6)
35One's rather upset, disposing of her bones (5)
36Call for a solo attempt - and no tricks (6)
38What one did when incensed? (5)
40Container used by American is terracotta (9)
43Alsatian, oddly, is a movie dog (4)
45A cold greeting, always, for the winner (8)
47Go and pay - he's supplied revised Chambers (7)
48One having lots of little drinks, ending up in their cups? (3-6)
51Before fighter's captured, he's left the country (6)
53'With eternal lids apart, like nature's patient, sleepless *******' (Keats) (7)
58High court judges? (7)
60Cost of a great day in the wood? (5)
61Pedigree is stimulating - quietly getting drunk? (6)
62Heraldic devices on head combs! (6)
63Saw, for instance, something with teeth (7)
64Thriller writer's vehicle, we hear (4)
65"Sounds no layabout", is the return (5)
66Army zapped fellow, inhabitant of island (8)
69Actor soon appearing in early version (4,1'4)
71Cut into a steak initially, and dined in state (10)
75Catch Edward up about ten (6)
78Apply to the Top and carry through successfully (3,4)
81Composer finds band that's warming to the sound (7)
82Gets off the mark (6)
83With a fair agreement, quits the board (6,4)
84As morning breaks, holding out for money (9)
86It's a muddle in minor streets, one way and another - and all due to the politicians! (8)
87Woman, fifty, found in a river (5)
89One follows first part in film sheet, to make an overlay (4)
91A key player, perhaps, from his score (7)
94In lethargy, leave diamonds? (6)
97The evergreen trees that baffle exiles (6)
98A US lawyer writing as a former president (5)
100Eye, say, last and first letters in flimsy stuff (7)
102It's a Bulgarian region and maybe overturned without (7)
103A cold place? Not the southern peninsula (6)
104Arranged rest at end for the waiters (9)
108Did a job with a press (7)
111Again mean to take a stand, though there's badinage (8)

113Nail finally cut: that's the main point in France (4)
114Foreshadowed the last of the wine, apparently (9)
115A textile, or any of its products (5)
117A monkey rushes all over the place (6)
119Being realistic, it must be down to this (5)
121Figures in rows (6)
123Source of oil in the Home Counties? Id., v. diamonds (6,4)
127Composer of carols has right to speak (6)
130How the saint was carried, yet got there on his feet (6)
131Chap rigged up in new suit - naturally, it's a disaster (7)
132Somehow get mica to one sculptor (10)
133Anne, R., poor historian (5)
134Having changed over to Perrier, note that's all a person can offer (10)
135Car sped round bend, right? (6)
136Demonstrators taking first of routes, one round short cut (7)
137Adapts to shifting tides (5)
138Shut up, I'm in need of energy and spirit being uplifted (6)
139Produces sound evidence of friction in cricket (11)

Down

1Like a wrestler floored and hauled up (2,3,3)
2Attempt to reform some liar? (8)
3Formal US cooking equipment (6)
4City twice amended, so to speak (9)
5Rob seed to stock it? (4-3)
6A good shot, but the victor lost the point (5)
7A thousand of the finest pilots go round to the very highest levels (5)
8Be unable, it seems, to tilt (4)
9An old ligature makes you swell up with start of contusions (4)
10Sings syllabically (5)
11Designer involved with rag took illustrations from other books (10)
12Kind of laburnum with which to plan Arthur's garden (7)
13Decree or notice produced in anger ... (5)
14... and they can erupt in anger or violence - so can love, perhaps (9)
15Sally hugging husband - he's not so tall (7)

16Hot lake formed by an Icelandic volcano (5)
17'She bid me take love ****, as the leaves grow on the tree' (Yeats) (4)
18Dancer with a penetrating look, we hear (7)
21Hong Kong university accepts first- class poem (5)
26Get in after the fool, one who agrees (8)
28One writing up French street craft endlessly, at the Comedie Francaise? (7)
30The house-leek is copper in Japan as well as the usual plant colour (8)
32Equipment one fixes after end of supplication (9)
33Always running between the poles, in France (6)
37Catch rat moving around Glasgow Circle Line (8)
39For the auditor, degrades landed properties (8)
41A guy inside upset crazy Shakespearean philosopher (9)
42I leave the unimportant and I've a shell in three parts (8)
44'A chiel's amang you ***** notes' (Burns) (5)
46As mischief-makers, they aren't very experienced (4)
49Harp on about trio taking parking (6)
50Part of a poem? Leave it, says the editor - it has its points (6)
52Floor covering put back in Limerick lough (3)
54A weak sort of an achievement, by the sound of it (6)
55Perfect losers err badly (9)
56Run back outside, say, to find transport (6,3)
57One stops, awkwardly, drooping of the eyelid (6)
59Fortran Quarterly describes a dart that could make you tired (5)
67I hate meat, minced, when it's blood-red like this (9)
68After the gala, a drink will make her lively (3)
70As a businessman, he'll give you your cards (6)
72It automatically scatters things around (8)
73Smell victory at first, with surface vessels appearing? (6)
74A cardinal number, and a source of nitre (5)
75Old horse, retired, hobbling round
front of stable (8)
76Rowdies out amid indications of distress (9)
77New York time - a quarter lost in the Occident (3)
78Obvious editor is officially covered (8)
79Bearlike in colours in every way (6)
80One of the miscellaneous items (3,3)
85With hock in poor condition, hastened to take in a French wine (8)
88Among the weaker sex, cellists are pre-eminent (5)
90People in a state as I had no bananas (8)
92It could be disastrous, losing head in anger (3)
93The plight of the penitent? (5,5)
94Yawning, having consumed a number of feasts (6)
95Growl, unable to find end of knot (4)
96Is it a penalty for not being on time? (4,3)
99Accustom to term (9)
101Busily active - surprisingly not hotter (2,3,4)
105Plump limb for making such a delivery (5-3)
106American backs poet endlessly, in anticipation (8)
107In retrospect, realise you've seen a ghost (7)
109He backs out and tries again (7)
110Detroit dancing is more like a polka (7)
112A Slav rising, with Langley's support, in Italy (7)
116Traditional pigment - wood-marking agent (5)
118Being baked, they come to a point in the ship (6)
120A belief, whichever way you look at it (5)
122Enter right inside part of vaulting (5)
123Arthropods not in groups of followers (5)
124At chess, perhaps, more than matched (5)
125Dismissing the odd characters, I saw his role twist and turn (5)
126It turns up in the speech of many an Amazonian tribe (4)
128In rubbish, love to rummage (4)
129Spirits raised by Scotch mist (4)


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