THE BIG CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Earnings
4 Incriminated unjustly
8 Accords
12 Observant care
13 Apprentice
14 Silly (coll)
17 Explain
18 Property
19 Directed
23 Treat waste for reuse
25 Prince Philip; Duke of ___
27 Circulate
28 Erythrocyte, non-technically (3,5,4)
31 Reckless with a gun (7-5)
35 Knockout (coll)
38 Advantage (4,5)
40 Was
41 Weight watchers
43 Pustule
45 Cutting tool
47 Passenger vessel
50 Cry of praise to God
51 Wronged
52 Segment
53 Consuming food
54 Football shirt
DOWN
1 Astronaut’s vehicle
2 Abate (3,2)
3 Abdicate
5 Fruit peel
6 Bungle a catch
7 Properly
8 Credible
9 Tall drum
10 Shrill
11 Imagination (5,3)
15 Affirmative vote
16 Ran away
20 Complicated
21 Sonority
22 Expired
24 Balkan nation
26 Dependent
28 Outfit
29 Shy
30 Easter holiday (4,6)
32 Disrespect
33 Delighted
34 Importance
36 Quickly! (4-4)
37 Reduce to the smallest
39 Widespread
42 Rocky hill
44 As a group; en ___
46 Changes place
47 Taxi passenger
48 Underground part of a plant
49 Involuntary breath