THE BIG CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Casual footwear
4 Infant
8 Utter a growl
11 Sort into order
12 Baptism
14 Jiggled
16 Passe (3-3)
17 Bother
18 Patent
19 Promised solemnly
21 Breaking of a bone
23 Make a bubbling sound
27 Daredevil
28 Strolls
30 Plug for a cask
31 Crowd
32 Inflating device
33 Get away
34 Disappear gradually (4,3)
37 Bandit
38 Without shape
40 Fashioned
43 Arsenal
45 Be beholden to
46 Get
48 Salad garnish
50 Join in
51 Wealthy (4-3)
52 Sullen
53 Relative by marriage
54 Waterlogged
DOWN
1 Check (4,3)
2 Leered
3 Bond
4 Fastens
5 Decipher
6 Songbird 7 Gambled
8 Plausible but false
9 Tolerate
10 Boxing category
13 Gangster
15 Healthy; ___ and hearty
19 Overmodest 20 Seized
22 Try
24 Simple sugar
25 West Indian island
26 A dog’s meal (3,4)
27 Genus of the seahorse
29 Cleaning implement
35 Exercising weights (4-5)
36 Adulthood
38 Tariffs
39 Midge
40 Scoffers
41 Garrison
42 Woollen trousers
44 Wall painting
47 Between
48 Walking-stick
49 Stately waterbird