SUNDAY CROSSWORD — 921

ACROSS:

2 Done on purpose (11)

7 Protect (5)

8 Legally sound

(5)

9 English cheese (7)

13 Holds dear

(9)

15 Cheerful consent (9)

18 Helicopter propeller (5)

20 Tremble uncontrollably (7)

21 Woodland deity (5)

22 Computer screen (7)

25 Taught the ropes (7)

27 Buying and selling ? (7)

28 Not our (5)

32 Excavated or unearthed ?

(3,2)

35 Staking or risking (7)

40 Greek storage jar (7)

41 Cattle farms

(7)

42 More chilly or colder (5)

43 Explanatory drawing (7)

44 Everyone join in (mus.) (5)

45 Lowest female singing voice (9)

49 All inclusive, none excluded (9)

53 Ballroom dance (7)

54 Deceptive move (5)

55 Radioactive inert gas (5)

56 Of the highest order

(11)

DOWN:

1 Great in quantity (4)

2 South Indian

snack (4)

3 Italian noble family (4)

4 Double reed

(4)

5 Roman 57 (4)

6 Jobs for musicians (4)

9 Ex-P.M. Lal Bahadur ___

(7)

10 Publishing

(7)

11 Neptune's fork (7)

12 Give an account (7)

13 Google browser (6)

14 Scope (6)

16 Taking food

(6)

17 Long pace

(6)

19 Duty-roster

(4)

21 Fight (4)

23 Annoy (3)

24 Smell (5)

26 Lasso (5)

29 Mandela's org. (3)

30 Lunatic (6)

31 Alternative

(6)

32 Austere (4)

33 Tolkien's wizard (7)

34 Self-contradictory proposition

(7)

35 Lodger (7)

36 Brass instrument (7)

37 This month, in short (4)

38 Poor quarter

(6)

39 Harden, turn into bone

(6)

46 Do as directed (4)

47 Sticking places (4)

48 Ripped (4)

50 Unit of electrical potential (4)

51 Time long gone (4)

52 Adverse fate (4)