THE PLAY PAGE CROSSWORD TIME

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1. Big, tawny cat

5. Current craze

8. Barbecue stick

12. Data

13. Cold

14. Burn soother

15. Opening

17. Old stringed instrument

18. Microscopic

19. Paul ... of “Crocodile Dundee”

20. Intend to

24. Course of action

26. Vehicle

27. Store aboard a vessel

28. Carpenter’s cutter

31. Motto

33. Doodle

35. Hog meat

36. Passenger’s fee

38. Plenty

39. Rubberneck

40. Hoses

41. Part of a flight

44. Make like a dove

46. Dad

47. Joined again

52. Blessing ender

53. Classified items

54. Film-shoot segment

55. Hornet’s home

56. Encountered

57. Pour forth

DOWN

1 . ... detector 2. Motel

3. Frequently, to Keats

4. Word with neither

5. Dandy

6. Agree to

7. Artificial colour

8. Parlour

9. Electric lamp feature

10. Pinch

11. Youth

16. Puncturing tool

19. Falcon’s cousin

20. Cummerbund

21. Grass-skirt dance

22. Molecule component

23. Fire fuel

25. Misplace

27. Cracking sound

28. Thrust

29. Skin condition

30. The ... and wherefores

32. Off yonder

34. Flightless bird

37. Go backward

39. Huge

40. Large amount

41. Reach across

42. Unexciting

43. Gibbons and gorillas

45. Unseat

47. Ewe’s mate

48. “... Not Unusual”

49. Knock lightly 50 . ... out a living

51. Dawn dampness PUZZ949