SUNDAY CROSSWORD — 975

ACROSS:

2 Gandhian famous for Bhoodan Movement (6,5) 7 A discourse of

the Buddha (5) 8 Los ___ : Californian city, "goats" anagram? (5) 9 Pre-Euro

German coin (7) 13 Witch (9) 15 Stopping further growth of (9)

18 Capital of

Ghana (5) 20 Scrutinises (7) 21 Cowboy's

noose (5) 22 Israel port city

(3,4)

25 Makes possible or easy (7) 27 In imprecise

terms (7) 28 Land south of

Egypt (5) 32 Emulates an

usher (5) 35 Cargo (7) 40 Declare openly

(7)

41 Campaign (7) 42 One of the

Pandavas (5) 43 Experience (7) 44 Brazilian dance

(5)

45 Clock, watch

or ticker (9) 49 Forsook or relinquished (9)

53 Mending socks

(7)

54 Jewish priest

(5)

55 To unfasten (5) 56 Famous English poet who died in 1953? (5,6)

DOWN :

1 Japanese martial art (4) 2 Valley (poetic)

(4) 3 Idiotic persons

(4)

4 Locks (4) 5 Freudian terms

(4)

6 Ripped (4) 9 Contemp-lative

(7)

10 River mouth (7) 11 Countries (7) 12 Gripped firmly;

understood (7) 13 Ancient Greek

city (6)

14 Bring back to

mind (6) 16 Affront (6) 17 Lustrous (6) 19 Afternoon for

the Aussie (4) 21 Without fat (4) 23 Ancient Order of the Shepherds (3) 24 Man and Capri

? (5)

26 The lowest

point (5) 29 Reactions of

surprise (3) 30 Thrown up "catsup" anagram? (6) 31 Blockage,

deadlock (6) 32 Observed (4) 33 Made certain?

(7)

34 More questionable (7) 35 Italian F1 team

(7) 36 Reverberating - "nice hog" anagram? (7) 37 American

blokes (4) 38 Airport runway

(6) 39 Recompense (6) 46 Muslim priest

(4)

47 Settled a debt

(4)

48 Castle or home, especially for the Spanish (4) 50 Word form for

''within'' (4) 51 Extinct ox (4) 52 Moslem

leader (4)