July 2000 - Jumbo Blocked Grid Crytpic
by Bob Gregory

Across

Stomach is so unsettled by genus of flatworms (11)
11 "Leeze me on drink it gi'es us mair than either *** or college" (The Holy Fair - Burns) (6)
15 Confusion upset university supporters (5)
19 Give details of countermove (7)
20 Moved faster than cook or aunt (6)
22 Author's royalty in two instalments (5,5)
23 Not rounds used in erratic salvo (5)
24 See act turn rough with words spoken (10)
25 Nicaraguan inebriate shows some DNA (7)
27 Semi-quixotic character? (6)
29 Isolated vivisectionist of Wells (6)
31 Drugs-dealer forever occupied by parking - love the car! (10)
34 Member of a sect way beyond a German town (6)
35 It's piffle - it puts the government's leader in ill-humour (5)
36 A way to divert people? (6)
38 Star is one that comes out round the northeast (5)
40 These African invaders would perforce blow up Italy! (9)
43 Rages due to element of unfair escalator clause (4)
45 Animals go for these trees (9)
47 A dead feature of Russian traffic, one would imagine (7)
48 Does the accountant curl it with such dislike for the office of the Muslims? (9)
51 Having been promoted, an increase in pay came through (6)
53 A blemish in Mother's make-up (7)
58 Cover for hard employer (7)
60 Recorded and copied to a T (5)
61 Hide worker for sixpence (6)
62 Be quick to show Saint Luke's head in colour (6)
63 Lured by impermanent Pooh? (7)
64 East European not quite in bondage (4)
65 Correspondence that's sent bit by bit (1-4)
66 To him nothing is any good (8)
69 Trumpet blast when army managed to take Ireland's royal hill (9)
71 Attain reform in boundary of the Rhine State (10)
75 Various blood groups found among natives in African forest (6)
78 More likely to be inclined to wave? (7)
81 The West in China, note, has to talk (4-3)
82 The first of the landlords relaxes tenures (6)
83 Prickly bushes set in a glen, quite wild (10)
84 No bill to foot for these, if you play the game (4,5)
86 Noisy toys right for crawlers (8)
87 Cape islands where German's heard to speak a word? (5)
89 Praise rocky bit of French river? (4)
91 Object about computer studies being taxing (7)
94 With a smile, point to the prime mover (6)
97 Most perfume's a pound put into a round container (6)
98 Some items of ormolu lavishly set in gold used at festival time (5)
100 Food circle at dinner (7)
102 Dead flowers seen on golf courses? (7)
103 Behold the headhunter in a similar setting (6)
104 Observer of arcane craft has look into cloudy obscurity, wearing crumpled suit (9)
108 Criticise part of the plumbing - it makes a special sort of sound (7)
111 Is successful in getting the animals cured (4,4)
113 Danish physicist says "Oh" when carried by old British Railways (4)
114 Street tip, perhaps - Cosmetics can help the girl seeking to be it (9)
115 Fashion right up to the finish (5)
117 Platforms for speakers or star turns (6)
119 City investment? (5)
121 Rose's home in Ireland (6)
123 Handing over the job (10)
127 Carry on with trail (6)
130 Change - save it to become rather cultivated (6)
131 Reportedly Greek, this longer period of time (7)
132 The biggest part enjoyed with pride? (5,5)
133 Fail to start a meal on target (5)
134 Incline to hold a bitter wrangle with the composer's writer (10)
135 Clergyman turning up in Brown's boozer (6)
136 Service provided by Jeeves personally (7)
137 It's a knock-out and foreign to the lady (5)
138 "The babbling *** of the air" (Shakespeare - Twelfth Night) (6)
139 Drink a mere dribble with head - it's quality is tops! (11)

Down

For so many (99) it is rhythmical (8)
Eamon read out ancient farewell utterance in it (2,6)
Reduce it to feet as you look at it (4,2)
A soft shoe to stop the dog yapping (4,5)
At home? No, Doris is out (7)
Check a beer barrel found in the roadway (5)
Extravagant when out and about (5)
Part of sporran that does not match in Scotland (4)
Before morning Mother might get across in Galway village (4)
10 In any case, a refusal will not please (5)
11 Unknown river for writers (10)
12 Turned to Cheshire when fed up (7)
13 Where to put chalk, given the signal (2,3)
14 Small life forms found in moss-grain hybrid (9)
15 Whip son with force - bishop's given consent (7)
16 Hills of Mysore are plain and in situ? (5)
17 A hazy reflection in the centre (4)
18 Advice to the extravagant that might just as soon not be given (7)
21 Scottish widow's right at the third canonical hour (5)
26 Red-light district? (2-2,4)
28 Pressure applied by Muslim just returned decapitated (7)
30 Get Russian leader in, hard to to find Chancellor Schroeder (8)
32 Irregularities in a semolina recipe (9)
33 Churchman who won't begin to tell (6)
37 Breaking up is wonderful (8)
39 Capital investments for fathers? (8)
41 A painter pores over a catalogue (9)
42 A churchman's tea - simple! (8)
44 Tips off the cleaner about the woman (5)
46 Nymphet extremely negative to ex-Soviets (4)
49 In vacation I anticipate learning some Greek (6)
50 It's a medical breakthrough! (6)
52 It all adds up to money (3)
54 Royal house accepted in the beginning (6)
55 Harassed lady embracing poetry with disfavour (9)
56 Issue partly raised by new partner (4-5)
57 Aha! - may be a motor-bike! (6)
59 Clumsily grasp some support (5)
67 Lost his A-1 position in air pollution (9)
68 Field of heavy study to be dropped (3)
70 A record player (6)
72 A vital attachment on hand? (4-4)
73 "Hands up" time! (6)
74 I'm irritable and upset besides, being without central heating (5)
75 Be smearing Margot in oil (8)
76 Gets greatest efficiency when work is limited in periods (9)
77 Lay a girl (3)
78 Light cart or car - lie perhaps (8)
79 Remove wax from a French water-creature (6)
80 Whopper perhaps about a German chemist (6)
85 It's always associated with a ring (8)
88 Loss of house by Hamlet's friend is kept in proportion (5)
90 Drunken purser is disposed to stagger (8)
92 Being poorly, one starts lunch late (3)
93 What the meal that had a fool for dessert started with? (6,4)
94 Cattle guides (6)
95 Cry of a hungry bird? (4)
96 Fell out with small people's country (3-4)
99 Not one's mother tongue but could be pater's one (9)
101 Dance along endlessly, moving with external composure (9)
105 Quiet! There are flowers for confessors (8)
106 Cross note about people leading a wild life (8)
107 People with good incomes nearer the crocodile's head? (7)
109 Retailer endlessly renovating workshop (7)
110 Honourably discharged chairmen (7)
112 Chinatown doctor needs recreation (7)
116 Hospital in foreign resort - a sheltered port (5)
118 Put out in west winds (6)
120 Information about a type of painting (5)
122 Million lost by silly mishap - what a pest! (5)
123 Pawnbrokers' wives? (5)
124 The girl's extremities are causing an angry look (5)
125 Girl turning up the day before in the morning (5)
126 Jacob had included Cork transatlantic port once called Queenstown (4)
128 He was done out of his rights by a smooth character (4)
129 Please answer this by letter (4)


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