ACROSS

 

1. Hoity-toity types

 

6. Key ______

 

9. ______ throat

 

14. To woo

 

15. Symbol of Athena

 

16. In the loop

 

17. Up and about

 

18. ______ de Janeiro

 

19. Euripides tragedy

 

20. An activity with a favourite book

 

22. Smooth

 

23. Iconic Wicked number

 

25. Superlative suffix

 

26. Ireland, for the Irish

 

27. To rise

 

30. Black and white killer whale

 

31. Opposite of 27-across

 

34. Alternative to queen

 

35. Gorilla-like

 

37. Word repeated after ‘Que’

 

38. Still

 

39. Citation abbr.

 

40. Shade used on uniform to camouflage with sand

 

41. French city known as the “Silk Capital of the World”

 

42. Middle Eastern ruler

 

44. Challenge for one taking their G2 exam

 

50. They all lead to Rome

 

51. Classic sandwich meat

 

53. “Adios, ______!”

 

54. Tool for a leatherworker

 

55. Resin used for incense

 

56. To dissuade

 

57. Founder of the People’s Republic of China

 

58. “When hell freezes over!”

 

59. To clear a chalkboard

 

60. Director Lee of Brokeback Mountain

 

61. Cook rice, say

 



DOWN

 

1. Sign of a past injury

 

2. Snoop around

 

3. Bizarre

 

4. Conference

 

5. Wandered off

 

6. Official currency of Hungary

 

7. In debt

 

8. Modern journalists

 

9. Hindu cycle of death and rebirth

 

10. Time that divides morning and afternoon

 

11. Half-diameters

 

12. Upright

 

13. ______ Blinders

 

21. Insult

 

24. Like brownies and billionaires

 

27. Where the sun is

 

28. What rock against rock results in

 

29. Fire ______

 

30. Like peanut and avocado

 

31. Mediterranean, e.g.

 

32. Biblical boat

 

33. Mai ______

 

35. Perched on

 

36. The big picture?

 

37. Small bush

 

39. Garbage dump, e.g.

 

40. Nursery rhyme characters who lose their mittens

 

41. Cliffhanger locales?

 

42. Alternative to digital

 

43. The Rockies, in brief

 

44. The “T” in WTO

 

45. The Odyssey author

 

46. Indian yogurt dish

 

47. Des Moines resident

 

48. Actor Christopher of Superman (1978)

 

49. The setting of Hercules’s first labour

 

52. Mattress specification

 

ANSWERS