SUNDAY CROSSWORD — 989

ACROSS:

1 Area of wet land (5)

4 Detonates or causes to begin or start (4,3)

8 Jeer or deride (3)

10 Race, sprint (3)

11 New Zealand based team which took part in the

2009 Champions League T20 (5)

12 Passageway (5)

13 A little less than a degree (7)

15 Burn or injure with hot liquid (5)

16 Russian empress (7)

17 Used to be (4)

20 Astronaut Armstrong (4)

23 Got a hole in one (4)

24 Golf shots (6)

26 Fortify or fix firmly at a place (8)

27 Merry-goround (8)

28 Three-fold (6)

31 Adolescent (4)

32 Inst. of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (4)

34 Talkative bird (4)

35 In a watchful manner (7)

36 In a frigid manner (5)

38 Makes a shrill noise or utters words shrilly (7)

41 Mistake (5)

42 The sound of a tittering laugh - "he tee" anagram? (5)

43 Anger (3)

44 The sesame plant (3)

45 Thrown out (7)

46 Gave medicine (5)

DOWN :

1 Stores away (5)

2 Indian mountain range (8)

3 Urging with a stick (8)

4 Single cut (4)

5 In ___ : completely? (4)

6 Narcotic (6)

7 Noisy quarrel (6)

8 Soil; stain (8)

9 Repeatedly (4,3,4)

14 In a uncivil and uncouth manner, in a way? (9)

18 Make reprisals (9)

19 Realtor (6,5)

21 Prevent by means of a legal authority (5)

22 ___ Davis : famous Hollywood actress of "Dangerous" and "Jezebel" fame? (5)

23 Pimples (4)

25 Indian leavened bread (4)

27 Of or relating to the brain or the intellect (8)

29 Opposed (8)

30 Exiles, dismisses or expels (8)

33 Deprive of food (6)

34 Royal city in Karnataka (6)

37 Surrender (5)

39 Single entity (4)

40 Surrounded by (4)