THE BIG ONE

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Across

1 Droning insect 5 Raised platform 8 Double thickness (3-3) 11 Native of Alexandria

12 PI (7,3)

13 Wild West convoy (5,5) 14 Tracing

15 — Strauss jeans 16 Adjusted

19 Witch doctor 22 Californian mountain range, Sierra —

24 Halt ship (5,2) 27 Crow

28 Hawaiian island 29 US Civil War soldiers

30 Mrs Marcos 31 Periods of growth 33 B12 or C

34 Tablet device 36 Signing up (to) 39 Classic painters (3,7) 41 Cancel

42 Financial rescue plans

43 Lunar landform 44 Captures

45 Crime group,

Cosa —

Down

2 Thankless individual 3 Guessing 4 Privileged class 5 The — Fe Trail 6 Colorado ski town 7 Bored

8 Dreamlike dazes 9 Unconcealed 10 Provide

(food) (3,2) 17 Ghostly

18 Most serious 20 Shortenings 21 Confer

23 Play out

25 Famed UK racecourse 26 Bearings

32 Gooier

33 Derelict

35 Water oxygenator 37 Doomed person 38 Strict

39 Last Greek letter 40 Liabilities