SUNDAY CROSSWORD — 814

ACROSS:

1 Gentlemen's gentlemen? (6)

4 Greek "k" (5)

7 Converts to different use (6)

13 Legal dissolution of a marriage (7)

14 Whimsical; strange (3)

15 Canadian city - "real bat" anagram? (7)

16 Fibre obtained from coconut husks (4)

17 Be indebted to (3)

18 Small drinks (4)

21 Scorn (8)

23 Trounced, beat soundly (8) 27 Former or

previous (9)

29 Carry, convey or haul? (9) 31 Allowed, authorised or certified (9) 32 Dodges or

evades (9) 33 Altruism, humanity or mercy (8) 37 Well-read (8) 42 Sharp taste

(4) 43 Affirmative reply (3)

44 Immerses in water (4)

47 Friendly (7)

48 Small poisonous snake (3)

49 Biggest, most sizable or spacious (7)

50 Language of Andhra Pradesh (6)

51 Sent high into the air (5)

52 Look up to (6)

DOWN:

1 V in VSNL? (6) 2 Not prerecorded (4)

3 Evict or expel

(4,3) 5 Insult (7)

6 Compensation, remuneration or stipend (7)

8 Argues for or against from a platform? (7)

9 Feline sound

(4) 10 Smartly fashionable (6)

11 Gandhiji's last words (3,3)

12 Kidnapper "opt car" anagram? (6)

19 Curb, check or confine (9)

20 Device for measuring distance walked (9)

22 Small shots in a cartridge, pills (7)

24 Ravaged, persecuted or hassled (7)

25 Entice (5)

26 Keep or hide

away (5)

28 3rd century Chinese dynasty (3)

30 Distress call (3)

34 A sketch or an illustration? (7)

35 Overwhelm, flow over (6)

36 A small songbird (7)

37 Specimen (7)

38 Excessive, unjustified (6)

39 Hungered, craved or desired? (7)

40 Surgeon's knife (6)

41 Steal cattle?

(6) 45 Seed appendage (4)

46 A word meaning 'half' (4)