CHUNKY CROSSWORD

Sharpen your pencil and show what you know.

For solutions, see page 126.

ACROSS

1 Queensland city (9)

6 Smash hit movie (11)

12 Thin pancake (5)

13 Stabbing instrument (7)

14 Merit (7)

15 Sad stories (9)

16 Loud noise (5)

18 -- Summer, Queen of Disco (5)

19 Abridged, brief (5)

20 Neighbourhoods (10)

22 Large desert in Asia (4)

24 Length measures (4)

26 Business where washing can be done (10)

28 Deliver a speech (5)

29 In total (10)

31 Egyptian city (10)

34 Filament (5)

35 Licit, lawful (10)

36 Winning -- everything, saying (3’1)

38 -- Armstrong, first man on the moon (4)

39 Dejected (10)

41 Caper (5)

44 Suffered a continuous, dull pain (5)

45 Scoundrel, knave (5)

46 Person who drops rubbish in public places (9)

48 Folding support for a table (7)

50 Very fast music (7)

51 Mean, heartless (5)

52 Butterfly larva (11)

53 Tumbling like a waterfall (9)

DOWN

1 Implied (5)

2 Green, aromatic cooking herb (7)

3 Light musical drama (8)

4 Miles Franklin novel (2,9,6)

5 Bottomless gulf (5)

6 Field glasses (10)

7 Social pariah (7)

8 Baby goat (3)

9 Advantageous aspect (6)

10 Huge dinosaur (13)

11 Look over evidence again (2-7)

17 Charles Dickens novel featuring Miss Havisham (5,12)

19 Bulgaria’s capital (5)

21 Join together, link (7)

23 Benefit (4)

25 Institution (13)

27 Lethargy (7)

30 Developed (4)

32 Ancient Mexican (5)

33 Adviser (10)

34 Terrific, brilliant (9)

37 Autonomous community in eastern Spain (8)

40 Hair braid (7)

42 Salad of cracked wheat and parsley (7)

43 Magazine boss (6)

46 Reasoning (5)

47 Soviet labour camp (5)

49 -- Wallach, actor (3)