Regular

ACROSS

1 Drugged

4 Hurts

8 Increased

11 Famous US singer

12 Tryouts

(coll) (6,5) 14 Uncouth person

16 Position inside

17 Fruit spread 18 Buried city in Italy

19 Army engineers

21 One who endures

23 Ionised gas 27 Food group 28 Worships 29 Carved

Maori talisman 30 Ripened 31 Australian English (coll)

32 Slow down

35 Wife (coll)

36 Piston chamber 38 Small coach

41 Wear away

43 Short swim

44 Strangled

46 From Wales

48 Not deep

49 Paper art

50 Trail; clue

51 Late

52 Grind

DOWN

1 Send away

2 Beer glasses

3 Decide

4 6 June 1944 (1-3) 5 Unlucky accident 6 Stability provider (coll)

7 Uses a broom 8 Premature 9 Artificial gem material 10 Journey’s end

13 Tournament (coll) 15 Slightly open 19 Poems

20 Extra performances 22 Supporters (coll) 24 Grinned

25 Pope’s palace 26 Football shirts 27 Drug dispensers 33 Dismounting 34 Dictator

36 Bra parts

37 Ruddy

38 Central American nation

39 Concept

40 Invoiced

42 Indian money

45 Blinky Bill, e.g. 46 Clean

47 Dwelling