THE BIG CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Surround

4 Slender racing-dog

8 Lash

11 Hanger-on

12 Historical account

13 Absent with permission (2,5)

14 Brings in

16 Gym apparatus

17 River in Hades

18 Projectile

21 Cry

22 Thoroughfare

25 Barrier

26 Card game with melds

28 Freight

29 Unreactive

31 Very small fish

32 A car has four of them plus a spare

33 Meekly

34 Deities

37 Tar

40 Hose

41 Eye parts; tear ___

43 Feather

44 Bluster

46 Naval officer

47 Type of pottery

48 Flamboyant

49 Doomed luxury liner

50 Type of nailfile board

DOWN

1 Boudoir

2 Green part of a calyx

3 Tease

4 World’s largest mammal

5 Twisted together

6 Digging tool

7 Passerine

8 Artificial

9 Reappear

10 Pompous

15 View

19 Ray of light

20 Arouse

23 Hearing problem, burst ___

24 Capital of Croatia

25 Cockpits (6,5)

27 Shop assistant

30 Fib (4,5)

32 Private chat (4-1-4)

35 Luxurious

36 Bleak

38 Plant seller

39 Remove a plant completely

42 Jazz band

44 Unemotional

45 Shred