THE BIG CROSSWORD

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ACROSS

1 Jewish teachers 4 Liquid part of blood 8 Wide bay; Great Australian ___ 12 Defamation 13 Leather suitcase 15 Musical drama 16 Deny 17 Most distant point 18 Small bird 19 Sprinkle from a sieve 21 Defraud 23 Grow less, decline 24 Game like bingo 26 Passes on 28 Annul a law, etc 29 Process diagram (4,5) 31 Monologue 32 Crime 33 Wander 35 Travel on horseback 36 Conqueror 37 Temporary 40 Tame animals 41 Entirely 43 Fruit; colour 45 Struck down 47 Hungarian pianist 49 Bungling 50 Witty saying 51 Christened 52 Entices 53 Emblem

DOWN

1 Dwells 2 Wild male pigs 3 One by one 5 Run with a long stride 6 Remnant 7 Biblical battle 8 Prohibited 9 Welcome 10 Dependable 11 Perused 14 Makes a formal speech 20 Delirious fury 22 Spiked 25 Charm 27 Oddness 28 Booking 29 Angry outburst 30 Equal 33 Persuade (4,2) 34 Trip 38 Negligible 39 Cursed 42 Deputy doctor 44 Glow 46 Pulsate 48 Printer’s cancel of a correction