SUNDAY CROSSWORD — 856

ACROSS:

2 She played the title role in Shekhar Kapoor’s Bandit Queen

(5,6)

7 Belief system

(5)

8 Legal or valid

(5)

9 Leftovers, remnant (7)

13 Residential unit (9)

15 Before-hand, ahead in time or place (2,7)

18 Curriculum ____ :resume (5)

20 Normally

(2,5)

21 Capital of Ghana (5)

22 Link together

(7)

25 Thrown out

(7)

27 Family reign

(7)

28 Physicist who predicted the existence of the positron

(5)

32 Israeli port

(5)

35 Interlaced or knitted together "vow nine" anagram? (7)

40 Operating specialist (7)

41 Leave without permission (7)

42 Hungarian composer (5)

43 A Soviet republic (7)

44 Oyster’s gem

(5)

45 Treatise on single subject

(9)

49 Impoverished conditions (9)

53 Fox - “Near dry” anagram ? (7)

54 Sweet on a stick (5)

55 Images or icons (5)

56 Artificially induced insensibility to pain? (11)

DOWN:

1 Hold firmly (4)

2 Chimney dirt

(4)

3 Manner or bearing (4)

4 Eschew or avoid (4)

5 East European

(4)

6 Flat plate (4)

9 Meals (7)

10 Ruggedly, strongly and tenaciously (7)

11 Reduced in strength (7)

12 Sooner (7)

13 Counsel or opinion (6)

14 Be present, listen (6)

16 To a ___ : exactly? (6)

17 Antelopes (6)

19 Avenged (4)

21 Airlines Electronic Engineering Comm. (4)

23 Greek Goddess of Night (3)

24 Chocolate tree? (5)

26 Biblical name

(5)

29 Dry especially for wines (3)

30 Place of refuge (6)

31 Prayer - “O sir no” anagram? (6)

32 Preliminary contest (4)

33 Detached (7)

34 Lawless-ness or terrorism; disorder (7)

35 Midwest US state (7)

36 Irrigated (7)

37 Brandy letters (4)

38 A period of immaturity?

(6)

39 Grown-ups

(6)

46 Ancient Greek coin (4)

47 Spanish painter (4)

48 Pop in Paris

(4)

50 Old Gaelic (4)

51 Showy flower or its plant (4)

52 On your own

(4)