SUNDAY CROSSWORD — 775

ACROSS:

1 Holy river for

us Indians (6) 4 Skinny person

or animal (5) 7 Lay-out, arrangement (6) 13 Fever passed by mosquitoes (7) 14 The least

amount? (3) 15 Keeps an

eye on (7) 16 Instrument of the band (4) 17 Mormons

gp. (3) 18 Tropical fruit

(4) 21 Praises, entrusts or commits (8) 23 Deposit, silt

or sludge (8) 27 Large seabird (9) 29 Between

times (9) 31 Highly thought of (9) 32 Damaging imputation (9) 33 At a ____ : below full or normal price? (8) 37 Set on fire; enkindled passions in? (8) 42 Car for hire

(4) 43 Class or kind

(3) 44 Castle in

chess (4) 47 Personal

satire (7) 48 One as a

prefix (3) 49 American

state (7) 50 Commands

(6) 51 A series of mountains (5) 52 Opposites of “consonants” (6)

DOWN:

1 Frisk and play

(6) 2 Egyptian river

(4) 3 The tympanic

membrane (7) 5 Wheedles (7) 6 Painters or

sculptors? (7) 8 The best possible conditions (7) 9 Discontinuity between earth’s crust and mantle (4) 10 Fight or

wrestle (6) 11 Mr Khan of Bollywood (6) 12 Teetered or influenced (6) 19 Inflated, high

sounding (9) 20 Unrestricted

(9) 22 See, perceive or understand (7) 24 American

essayist (7) 25 Sets of two

(5) 26 Horse controls (5) 28 Golf item (3) 30 Armed hostilities (3) 34 Din (7) 35 Alliances or marriages (6) 36 North Eastern state of India (7) 37 Hint, slight knowledge or suspicion of (7) 38 Ritualistic

(6) 39 A pearshaped tropical fruit (7) 40 US moon

mission (6) 41 Rots and decomposes (6) 45 Among, in the company of (4) 46 Bundle of

hay (4)