THE PLAY PAGE CROSSWORD TIME

GRID689

1. Cabbage dish

5. Mouse’s cousin

8. Fluster

12. City transport

13. Have unpaid bills

14. Cattle

15. Suffers

16. Fellows

17. Marsh stalk

18. Raised

19. Love

21 . ... up to (confess)

23. Take back

27. Frown

31. Express

32. Angler’s need

33. Gall

35. Morning condensation

36. Spoken

38. Most uncanny

40. Barked

42. Prepared

43. Army bigwigs

45. Jam

49. Knitted

52. Return on equity (abbrev.)

53. Enormous

54. Hunch

55. Addition to a house

56. Derive

57. Thereafter

58. Two, to Manuel

59. Musical twosome

DOWN

1. Try

2. Lion’s pad

3. Wheel shaft

4. Insight

5. Love affair

6. Thunderstruck

7. Choir member

8. Precede

9. Hatchet

10. Final letter

11. Complete

20. Worship

22. Roam

24. General’s assistant

25. Tops a cake

26. Certain amphibian

27. Comedian Ugly Dave ...

28. Film part

29. Fan favourite

30. Sooner than, in poems

34. Ships

37. Cheerful

39. Yearned

41. Braved

44. Aria

46. Hawaiian feast

47. Giant

48. Lady’s guy

49. Take the gold medal

50. Shelley poem

51. Disturb PUZZ959