THE PLAY PAGE CROSSWORD TIME

GRID658

1. Jazz type

4. Not stiff

8. Doe’s partner

12. Notable timespan

13. Taken by mouth

14. Vocal solo

15. Representative

17. Snake’s tooth

18. City property

19. Modifies

21. Quiet

24. Aboriginal custodian

26. Word of sorrow

27. Indulgent

31. Glass part

32. Cloudy

34. Great Aussie meat ...

35. Sporting arena

37. Well

38. Draw up in order

40. Decorates a cake

41. To hit a nail

44. It gives a hoot

46. Tavern drinks

47. Bellies

52. Ascended

53. Scoundrel

54. Thick and sticky substance

55. Ring

56. Personality

57. Bizarre

DOWN

1. Oyster plot

2. Metal-bearing rock

3. Sidekick

4. Trademark

5. Annoyed

6. Pad

7. Asked urgently

8. African tour

9. Corner

10. “... Misbehavin’”

11. Jokes

16. Stately trees

20. Refuse to accept

21. Sedans, e.g.

22. Touched ground

23. Tibetan priest

25. South American animal

28. Heroic poem

29. Diamond number

30. Informal shirts

32. King’s title

33. Cheers

36. Gentlewoman

37. Movie

39. Alpine call

41. Lyre’s cousin

42. Burnsoothing plant

43. Flat-topped hill with steep sides

45. Howling animal

48. Spelling contest

49. Easily bruised item?

50. Beckon

51. Surface a lawn

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