THE BIG CROSSWORD

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ACROSS 1 Issue 5 High point 11 Tall grasses 12 Adding colour 13 Glow 14 Spitting image (4-5) 15 Horse kept for breeding 17 Brochure 18 Fled 20 Sketch 23 Italian operatic tenor 25 Bereavement 27 Chilled (3-4) 30 Toupees 32 Tart 33 Set up for use 34 Bare 35 Rich cakes 37 Ruptured 39 Dirge 41 Plant fibre 44 Signal to stop (3,5) 46 Long pasta 48 Ill-fitted 49 Hybrid fruit 50 New Zealander 51 Lavatory (5,6) 52 Diplomacy

DOWN 1 Very drunk (coll) 2 Capital of Argentina (6,5) 3 Pre-prepared 4 Nonsense (coll) (3,3) 5 Gallops easily 6 Deposited 7 Metal block 8 Cherubs 9 Glacier-climbing tool (3,4) 10 Named 16 Cooking vessels 18 Slippery characters 19 Impressive 21 Labour 22 Modernise 24 Absorbent pad 26 The deep 28 Metropolis 29 Remote homesteads 31 Adhesive 32 Eve’s partner 33 Formal meeting 34 Haze 36 Neuter 38 Shining 40 Simplest 41 Brutal 42 Sieve 43 Discharge (a debt) (3,3) 45 Accommodation 47 Social insects