THE BIG CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Throwing game; dashes
4 Lay down in rest
8 Criticise severely (3,2)
11 Excuse
12 Plant-eating insect
14 Water vapour
16 Duty list
17 Fat pig
18 Eucalyptus (3,4)
19 Devour
21 Battleship; jellyfish (3-2-3)
23 Make supple; ___ up
27 Stunned (coll)
28 Illegal drug
29 Float through the air
30 Solely
31 Flesh of older sheep
32 In table form
35 Abraded
36 Most distant
38 Frozen dessert
41 Sign after Libra
43 Vestment
44 Fairground game
46 Classy (coll)
48 Absorbing
49 Heathen
50 Aquarium fish
51 Means
52 Tricked
DOWN
1 Pictorial plan
2 Underground plant parts
3 Booked (6,3)
4 Flat fish
5 Dove 6 Did freestyle
7 Correct quantity of medicine
8 Chinese dish (4,4)
9 Heavy drinker
10 Culprit
13 Castoffs
15 Norse deity
19 Frankness
20 In advance (2,5)
22 Strips of pasta
24 Printing system for the blind
25 Camera lens cover
26 Alludes to (5,2)
27 Booming
33 Engaged
34 Risk of loss or harm
36 White lies
37 Saluted
38 Balanced
39 Young deer
40 Burning
42 Available (2,3)
45 Preen
46 Placard
47 Headwear