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A team-mate challenged me to meet or exceed the criteria of his own latest crossword. The criteria are: 1) Symmetrical grid - tick (three way) 2) 3 letter or bigger words - tick 3) 240 out of 289 squares filled - 241 -tick 4) Mostly known clues. - Only you can answer that. See if I meet the criteria. Get yourself a big cup of coffee.
Author: 1nn1 - Diff: Harder

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    • Complete Clue List

      Across
      1. Temporary deviation in a trend
      5. Persons or documents, that provides information
      10. Small nail with a wide head
      14. Regain something lost
      15. An Inuit Shaman (OR if we really have to, IATA code for Oranjestad, Aruba)
      16. Fill with love (in American)
      17. A very long time - probably hyperbole
      18. Sea level which exposes the most beach (3,4)
      21. Regional capital in southern Italy
      22. To cut short
      23. Alternatives
      24. Small porous sachets containing leaves onto which boiling water is poured to make hot drinks
      27. Jazz style, fast tempo that developed in the US in the 40s
      30. Barack, former US President
      31. South American ratites
      34. Ancient Greek nymph, wannabe lover of Narcissus
      36. National US Infectious Diseases facility based in Atlanta known by its initials
      37. Parrots from New Zealand (not Korea)
      38. Massive irrigation scheme based on this Western Australian river (Or Chicago airport IATA code)
      40. Small, standard size dry cell battery
      42. Part of a circle, favoured by Joan
      43. Common eating fish
      45. 'Rocky' actor (9,8)
      46. Popular hot drink
      47. 1974 novel by Colleen McCullough OR a 1979 movie starring Mel Gibson based on the same book
      48. French water
      49. Decay
      50. Cow noises
      52. No score
      54. Initially, a University entrance exam to study legal processes and policies
      56. Waxy solid substance secreted by plants and a source of polymers
      58. Diminishes
      60. Pele's real first name
      62. Livelier, more impertinent, bolder
      64. Round holes in punched leather or cloth for threading a lace, or string through.
      66. Acrobatic stunt plane's manoeuvres
      69. South Indian pancake
      70. Improvement measures or trends
      73. Minor argument
      74. Synthetic fibres used to make Kevlar
      75. Southern constellation located between Scorpius and Triangulum Australe (means "altar")
      76. Benjamin, Olympic winning (with Tanith Hill) ice skater
      77. A tonic or a restorative: Pick- (2,2)
      78. Put forward for consideration
      79. Stagger OR wind thread onto a spool

      Down

      1. Collection of small items of sentimental value
      2. Pea, bean or lentil
      3. Occupation of a person who prepares the surface of a NHL match
      4. The next qualification after a Ph.D. but shorter (4-3)
      5. Croatian coastal city (second largest in country) possibly divided
      6. Initially, a massive American labour organisation
      7. Former US Supreme Court jurist. Passed 2020 (4,5,8)
      8. River in Vietnam OR Brazil OR Ms Cortez (b. 1988), Filipina actress and comedienne
      9. Leaks slowly
      10. "Bewitched" Samantha's daughter
      11. Yoshi, Japanese actor and comedian OR Isiaki, Chief of Air Staff of the Nigerian Airforce
      12. Clear structure at the front of the eye
      13. Mr Kristofferson (American country singer) or Mr Kringle (No introduction necessary)
      19. Margarine
      20. Eugen (b. 1937) Moldovan composer OR Alessandro (b. 1975), Italian footballer
      25. English New Wave band "The Look of Love"
      26. US automobile manufacturer, maker of the Pacer, Gremlin, Hornet (inits)
      27. Auxiliary power source to provide extra thrust for a rocket to escape gravity after take-off
      28. Insanity, madness AND the north Yorkshire village from which the term arose
      29. Automobile body-type with no fixed weather protection for occupants OR Cadillac model 1930-40
      31. Hermit
      32. Accompanies
      33. An ethnic German living in the Czech lands of the Bohemians prior to 1938
      35. Desert fertile spot
      37. Cattle enclosure in South Africa
      39. Grain type
      41. Initially, a cash dispenser
      42. Consumed
      44. Mr Lennon's middle name (second time around)
      51. Popular light source before electrical circuitry introduced into housing (3,4)
      52. Stage name of American rapper once married to R&B singer Kelis Rogers
      53. Hawaiian garland
      55. Mentor
      57. Donkey that lives in 100 acre wood
      58. Stinging insect
      59. Mr Bean, no, not that one, the serious English actor not the comedian
      61. Layman who lives in a monastery OR Flattened at the poles
      62. Upright timbers in interior walls to support drywall or laths
      63. Took a school or university exam again
      64. Dutch cheese
      65. Isaac's son, Jacob's brother
      67. Semi-circular recess in a church, usually with a domed roof
      68. Initially, aircraft that needs little or no runway to become airborne
      71. Attach a label to something
      72. 1979 American movie starring Sally Field: "Norma ___"