Crossword 2636

ACROSS

1 Strengthen (4,2) 5 Relating to living organisms (6) 8 To dismiss someone without punishment (3,3) 9 A marketplace where a variety of goods are sold or exchanged (6)

10 Sauté (3) 12 Perfidious (8)

13 _ upon a time (4)

14 Lift one’s hat in salutation (4) 15 Reflection of sound (4) 16 Organ of locomotion in fishes (3) 17 Providence; doom (4) 19 Plural of serum (4) 20 Vanished (4) 22 Advance beyond the proper or usual limits (8)

24 Pig’s pen (3)

25 Gaudy, cheap (6)

26 Fall asleep (3,3)

27 Make deeper (6)

28 Turn into curd (6)

DOWN

2 Relating to or characteristic of an elegy (7)

3 Able to travel freely and do as one pleases (9) 4 Short of breath (5) 5 Famous chief city of ancient Mesopotamia, first settled around 3000BC (7)

6 A line of coaches or wagons coupled together and drawn by a railway locomotive (5) 7 A funeral procession (7) 11 Brilliant (7)

13 A vehicle designed to travel on rough terrain (3-6) 15 Betrothed (7) 16 Refresh (7)

18 Skill in handling delicate situations; diplomatic (7) 21 A person who tends to the sick (5)

23 One who believes all people are motivated by selfishness (5)