THE BIG CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Humorist 4 Discussed the pros and cons 8 Anchorage 11 Mix cards up 12 Tenant 14 Distend 16 Entirely (L) (2,4) 17 Get on one’s nerves 18 Reincarnation 19 Tight 21 Passing on of a case 23 Anything aimed at 27 Social climber 28 Bird house 30 Hindu woman’s garment 31 Coach 32 Metal piece of money 33 Scold 34 Shoving 37 Regret 38 Swift, of a rise to fame 40 Mark for misconduct 43 Private bathroom 45 Craving 46 Sudden, sharp pain 48 Outcast 50 Emergency service (4,7) 51 Soft shoe 52 Bounds 53 The upper branches 54 Young mare

DOWN

1 Shop assistant 2 Lose hair 3 Cheap restaurant 4 Female deer 5 Short jacket 6 Greenish-blue 7 Dismal 8 To bully 9 Object tracker 10 Ruthless (4-7) 13 Largest deer 15 Volition 19 Stately mansions 20 Dominions 22 Autocracy 24 Cattle farmer 25 Tarred road surface 26 Turbine-driven aeroplane (4-3) 27 Needless (8,3) 29 Tank 35 Awry (coll) (4-5) 36 Desirable 38 Excavate 39 Undoubtedly 40 Portray 41 Observed 42 Iterate 44 Warning signal 47 Himalayan nation 48 Body of water 49 Please reply (init)