Complete Clue List
Across
1. Shorter name for a former North American nation
4. Spanish snacks
9. Hobby that requires particular skill
14. Brick carrier
15. Go back in the direction you came from (1-5)
16. Eagle's nest (var.)
17. South East Asian island nation
19. Animal dens
20. Sportsmen/women who get used to conditions to improve performance have their ____ (3,2)
21. Ancient Greek soldier with an anatomical defect
23. Communism, for example, on the political spectrum (3,4)
26. Peaked cap favoured by French Gendarmes and American Civil War soldiers
27. Ms Bogdanoff US Congresswoman from Florida but not Ms Barkin, nor Ms Page, both actresses
29. Interwoven
33. Knotted your shoelaces
36. Samoan capital
38. Superman played by Christopher but not George
39. Antipodean former government owned shipping organisation (abbr.)
40. Air explosions from the lungs expelled through the nose
42. Athens Georgia rock band, "Losing My Religion"
43. Hoard
45. Prefix meaning "eight"
46. Wife of a Rajah
47. Adorned in the national Scottish dress
49. Strange, frightening (but too long to be a lake)
51. Wyatt, US frontiersman
53. Nearest
57. Norm from "Cheers"
61. Typically American restaurant
62. Dr von Behring, German physiologist
63. Meridian
66. NATO alphabet re-spelling of a popular single digit
67. Relating to birds not planes
68. Sped
69. Rock singers, movie and TV celebrities and celestial bodies
70. Scope
71. Suitable word for the last clue of a crossword
Down
1. Head Honcho
2. Ms Jeyaseelan, Canadian tennis player but NOT the Queen of Norway
3. British snake (good at maths apparently)
4. Horizontal black hole transport route
5. Consumed
6. By-product of an infection
7. Musical piece for one voice, frequently found in opera
8. Small meal
9. Measuring device (as a pair) to measure distance
10. Cause to happen OR become aware of (var.)
11. Seed outgrowth that completely encases it (No, it is not a shorter fourth month)
12. Fuel + Oxygen + Heat
13. Thomas Hardy heroine
18. Lubricated
22. Fabric border
24. An open pie or tart
25. A particular blood category, popular (4,1)
28. Female relative
30. Ancient Greek goddess of women, marriage, family, and childbirth
31. Not the least bit odd
32. Ms Moore, "Ghost", "A Few Good Men"
33. Chore
34. Incan sun god
35. Israeli national carrier (2,2)
37. Meso-American culture
40. Sheep clippers as an occupation
41. British peerage title higher than a Viscount
44. Pittsburgh football player
46. Take an examination again (2-3)
48. Physicians collectively but shorter
50. Thyroid mineral
52. Bear, white
54. To take effect (var.)
55. Automobile body type
56. New development becoming normalised
57. Animal enclosures
58. Expel OR give off
59. Ms Turner, rock singer or Ms Louise, "Gilligan's Island" star
60. Exploding star or smaller Chevy
64. Shorter version of industrial rock band headed by Trent Raznor
65. Piece of cloth strategically placed to inhibit speaking OR a joke