SUNDAY CROSSWORD — 974

ACROSS:

1 Temporary substitute, especially for a doctor (5) 4 District in London, " Aid help", anagram (7)

8 Electronic Instrument Sys. (3)

10 It's an ___ wind that blows nobody good? (3) 11 Held in check, like your breath? (5) 12 Tropical fiber

(5)

13 Baffle (7) 15 Computer codes, in short? (5) 16 Mean (7)

17 Go by (4) 20 This is the

place (4)

23 Use the big

needles (4) 24 Planetary

paths (6) 26 Reducing to lower rank or class (8) 27 Pertaining to

the stars (8) 28 Cheap-jack (6) 31 Goddess of

rainbows (4) 32 Aeronautical Mobile Satellite Serv. (4)

34 Arabian

sultanate (4) 35 Listening to (7) 36 Rural poem (5) 38 Respects greatly or venerates (7) 41 Religious

practices (5) 42 Jewelled headdress (5)

43 Ms. West of Hollywood fame? (3)

44 A shrill bark (3) 45 Scottish

maidens? (7) 46 Profundity (5)

DOWN:

1 Scales sign (5) 2 Underground

cemetery (8) 3 00.00 hours? (8) 4 Actor Alda (4) 5 Wicked (4) 6 Solids which disperse light into a spectrum (6)

7 Most frigid (6) 8 Going in (8)

9 Be in agreement (3,3,2,3)

14 A flight of fancy or hopeless ambition? (4,5) 18 Approximation, comparison or likeness (9) 19 Union territory neighbouring Tamil Nadu (11)

21 German industrial city (5) 22 Numerical facts in short (5)

23 Be aware of

(4)

25 Wading bird

(4)

27 Move

crabwise (8) 29 Helped out (8) 30 Miner’s illumination (4,4)

33 Very thin, glittering, metallic strips (6) 34 She-monster

(6)

37 Thong on which a dog may be held (5) 39 Industrially developed Gujarat city (4) 40 Mountain

goats (4)