SUNDAY CROSSWORD —

1000

ACROSS:

1 Systems of religious belief (6)

4 Overbearing and domineering (5)

7 Extremely sad

(6)

13 Causing pain, especially mental agony (7)

14 Screen Actors Guild, acronym? (3)

15 Betting adviser (7)

16 Single entity

(4)

17 Outer as a prefix? (3)

18 Microbe (4)

21 Clothes closet (8)

23 Damage evaluator (8)

27 Superb, fantastic or wonderful

(9)

29 Indoor sport

(9)

31 Defers (9)

32 Emission (9)

33 Pay out (8)

37 Irritating and persistent

(8)

42 Warming liquid food (4)

43 Shade tree

(3)

44 Types of

East Indian shrubs (4)

47 Flowers "Dash Ali" anagram?

(7)

48 Place to soak

(3)

49 Teaching; instruction

(7)

50 Voracious insect (6)

51 Pop star ___ Mars (5)

52 Concurs or complies with (6)

DOWN :

1 One-tenth of a Roman legion

(6)

2 Old Testament priest (4)

3 Classified, spelt out or explained (7)

5 Indecent or vulgar (7)

6 Italian Mrs (7)

8 Accounts or articles (7)

9 Courage or pluck (4)

10 Angular projection (6)

11 One of the Fates (6)

12 Degrees or phases (6)

19 Bitterly ironic (9)

20 Staggering, reeling about

(9)

22 Teases or makes fun of

(7)

24 African language (7)

25 Cries (5)

26 Finished (5)

28 Impudence

(3)

30 "Like" suffix

(3)

34 They accept your bets!

(7)

35 Meal (6)

36 Voter (7)

37 Blanket prohibition on the use of some particular monicker (4,3)

38 Gives or bestows (6)

39 Lounging, slouching (7)

40 Messiah composer?

(6)

41 Uses one's mind (6)

45 Fashionably elegant (4)

46 Of good quality (4)