SUNDAY CROSSWORD — 996
ACROSS:
2 Ex-India P.M.
(5,6)
7 Move to music
(5)
8 Closely sniffed
at (5)
9 Patella (7) 13 Concertina (9) 15 Surgical procedure (9) 18 Cowboy’s
rope, lasso (5) 20 Schedule listings (7) 21 Guwahati
locale (5) 22 Squash (7) 25 Having a pleasant odour (7)
27 Passing
through (7) 28 Undrinkable
alcohol (5) 32 Scour (5) 35 Blessing or good fortune (7)
40 Try to equal
(7)
41 Copy (7) 42 Libertines (5) 43 Estate agent
(7)
44 Showy actions
(5)
45 Small coffee
cup (9)
49 Of great consequence (9) 53 French bean
(7)
54 Card game (5) 55 Voice a belief
(5)
56 Sue? (4,2,5)
DOWN:
1 Bath powder (4) 2 At the back (4) 3 __ __ uncertain terms : quite emphatically? (2,2) 4 Tide type (4) 5 Old king of Peru
(4)
6 Mexican coin
(4)
9 Young felines
(7)
10 Transfer to another for care (7) 11 Substantiate
(7)
12 Keep on (7) 13 Loose from
moorings (6) 14 Neck-cloth (6) 16 Implanted
items (6) 17 Wanderers (6) 19 Court minutes
(4)
21 War god (4) 23 Attempt (3) 24 Legislate; ratify (5)
26 Deep fissure
(5) 29 Commonly used suffix “Tin” anagram? (3) 30 Looked with malicious intents? (6) 31 Claptrap (6) 32 Answers or
tells? (4) 33 Reinvigorate
(7)
34 City in
Rajasthan (7) 35 The juices which help the digestion? (7) 36 Break up, separate forcibly (7)
37 One in Bonn
(4)
38 “Ali had” changed to Bertie Worcester’s aunt? (6) 39 Group of six
(6)
46 Like congers
(4)
47 Clump of grass
(4)
48 Rational - not
crazy (4) 50 Discontinuity between earth’s crust and mantle (4) 51 Plant part (4) 52 Convent
women (4)