SUNDAY CROSSWORD — SOLUTION FOR CROSSWORD - 986

988

ACROSS

1 Elephant driver

(6)

4 Perspire (5) 7 Silver-white

element (6) 13 Mind a child

(7)

14 Upper limb (3) 15 Foretold, prophesied or signified (7) 16 Indian goddess (4) 17 Order of the British Empire, in short (3) 18 Mend socks

(4)

21 Stoutly partisan (8) 23 English furniture maker (8) 27 Lack of prejudice (9) 29 Intensified, ascended or mounted (9) 31 Slender threads - like those seen in light-bulbs (9) 32 A flight of fancy or hopeless ambition? (4,5) 33 Authorised (8) 37 Cricket fielding position (5,3) 42 Cooking rod

(4)

43 Dinner jacket

(3)

44 Double reed

(4)

47 Pass sentence

on (7) 48 French assent

(3) 49 Challenges or

contradicts (7) 50 Goes off

course (6) 51 Unexpected difficulties that arise (5) 52 Extensions (6)

DOWN :

1 Title role for Rowan Atkinson (2,4) 2 Central parts of

wheels (4) 3 Disentangle (7) 5 Erode, cause to diminish by constant usage (4,3)

6 Lacking any

purpose (7) 8 Neighbour of

Libya (7) 9 Concerning, in legal terms "rein" anagram ? (2,2) 10 Examplars (6) 11 King of the

Huns (6) 12 Deal with, control (6) 19 Painting of inanimate objects (5-4) 20 Go easy (4,5) 22 Sheep's milk

cheese (7) 24 Leaves, shoots, or resin of hemp (7)

25 Pack tightly, force or cram? (5)

26 ___ ale : water for drinking? (5)

28 "Losing my religion" rock group (3) 30 Guided (3) 34 Blasphemy, desecration or heresy (7) 35 Chant or sing

(6) 36 Disappointment (3-4) 37 Moving along the ground especially an aircraft? (7) 38 Of a mocking

nature (6) 39 Sagged; wilted

(7)

40 Parcels of land

(6)

41 Pokes fun at

(6)

45 Knot in wood

(4)

46 Exchange fee

(4)

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