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ACROSS

1 Set of three; chord (5) 4 Brass instrument (10) 9 Small room (6) 14 Prepared state (9) 15 At all times of day or night (5,3,5) 16 Painting on two panels (7) 17 Machinery fixer (9) 18 Opening passage (5) 19 Popular Suppé overture (4,3,7) 22 Totally absorb the attention of (7) 25 Fit to be sold (10) 27 Customary, mainstream (12) 30 Letting contract (5) 31 Sicken (8) 32 Clairvoyan­ts (8) 35 Speculate (8) 36 Capital of Finland (8) 37 Happening at great speed (5) 39 Young Frenchwoma­n (12) 41 Not too intellectu­ally stretching (10) 43 Soft Italian cheese (7) 45 Prior inclinatio­n (towards something) (14) 48 Small woody plant (5) 49 Mental powers (9) 51 Aircraft with double wings (7) 53 Having a disappoint­ing ending (13) 54 Army rank (9) 55 Vicar, rector (6) 56 Store at a very low temperatur­e (4-6) 57 Eat steadily; artist (5

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1 Long angry harangue (6) 2 Not suitable (13) 3 Ornamental mat for plate (5) 4 (Of wind) become stronger and colder (7) 5 Without principles (12) 6 Continenta­l (8) 7 Beautiful young woman (5) 8 Saving (10) 10 Absent, deficient (7) 11 Type of cattle (9) 12 Capital of Japan (5) 13 Have a rethink (6,4,4) 20 Out of that place (9) 21 Abandonmen­t of belief (8) 23 Spacecraft’s landing at sea (10) 24 Unimportan­t person (5-5) 26 Remarkable year (5,9) 28 Wrong (9) 29 Military waking signal (8) 33 Act of pretending to be another (13) 34 Not possible to deny (12) 38 Cause to continue indefinite­ly (10) 40 Painter, wallpaper hanger (9) 42 Exhaust quietener (8) 44 Smoker’s leaf (7) 46 Exalted, lofty (7) 47 Scarcity, lack (6) 48 Bog, marsh (5) 50 Pause, temporary respite (3-2) 52 Sacred song (5)

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