SUNDAY CROSSWORD — 940

ACROSS

1 Momentary flashes of light (6)

4 Otherwise? (2,3)

7 On the water (6)

13 Carte ___ : full discretionary power given to a person? (7)

14 Furrow (3)

15 Wandered away (7)

16 Theatrical Coward

(4)

17 Little devil (3)

18 Tehran's locale (4)

21 Unavoidably (8)

23 Pragmatic or downto-earth (8)

27 Premature ends to pregnancies (9)

29 Easily-ignited object (9)

31 Appraised, surveyed or assayed?

(9)

32 Played by plucking with the finger (9)

33 Mental obsessions

(8)

37 Memento or souvenir (8)

42 Cricket ground (4)

43 Charged atom (3)

44 Large mice (4)

47 Aerial (7)

48 Insane or crazy (3)

49 Rate for mail? (7)

50 A group of six musicians (6)

51 Muscular pain (5)

52 Short-sightedness?

(6)

Down

1 Calm, subjugate or suppress (6)

2 Middle-Easterner (4)

3 Start of a football match? (4-3)

5 Pardon (7)

6 It has eight legs (7)

8 Italian F1 team (7)

9 Type of gemstone

(4)

10 Dreariness (6)

11 Tentative proposal or suggestion (6)

12 Allot or apportion

(6)

19 Caused to explode

(9)

20 Famous rugby team from New Zealand

(3,6)

22 Call together (7)

24 A large stately building? (7)

25 Assessed (5)

26 Laud or praise to the skies (5)

28 Wed successor (3)

30 Center starter (3)

34 Retribution (7)

35 Muslim sovereign?

(6)

36 Water sportsman

(7)

37 Territory of a monarch (7)

38 One of Jupiter's moons (6)

39 Fulfil the requirements (7)

40 ____ on air : feels elated? (6)

41 Protozoans (6)

45 River of Hades (4)

46 Stringed instrument (4)