SUNDAY CROSSWORD — 1143

ACROSS:

2 Stoically or

stolidly (11)

7 Appraised or

classified (5)

8 Did wrong (5)

9 Send traffic by another path (7)

13 Characteristic (9)

15 ____ sign: this tells the motorists not to leave their cars around here? (2,7)

18 Musical note (5)

20 Legal relinquishments (7)

21 Large African mammal inhabiting rivers etc. (5)

22 Oppression, despotism or dictatorship (7)

25 Dry spell (7) 27 Nom-deplumes (7)

28 Permission to be absent - in Latin (5)

32 More loyal (5)

35 Golfers’ assistants (7)

40 Refresh one’s memory or skills (5,2)

41 Remove wrinkles; smoothen (4,3)

42 In a stately and aristocratic manner (5)

43 Substance in chemical reaction (7)

44 Quick (5) 45 Under an assumed name (9)

49 Sluggish (9)

53 Descend or fall by succession (7)

54 Legal defence (5)

55 British noblemen (5)

56 High-ranking churchmen (11)

DOWN:

1 Kiln (4)

2 S. Indian snack (4)

3 Help a felon (4)

4 Disallow (4)

5 Twelve months (4)

6 Slender (4)

9 Landing strips (7)

10 Has one's home or dwells permanently (7)

11 Frighten (7)

12 Serial instalment (7)

13 Owns up or confesses (6)

14 Arctic plain (6)

16 Attack as false (6)

17 Crows or boasts (6)

19 Short skirt (4)

21 Boo or jeer? (4)

23 Everybody (3)

24 Pacific island republic (5)

26 Rest and relaxation, abbr. (1,3,1)

29 Wistful thinking (3)

30 River in W central Africa (6)

31 Canadian province (6)

32 Third person pronoun (4)

33 Reproach for wrongdoing, scold (7)

34 Russian royal house (7)

35 Panacea (4,3)

36 Lay down terms (7)

37 Charged particles (4)

38 Seeding or planting (6)

39 Stationary (6)

46 Little ___ : Dickensian character? (4)

47 Network of electricity supply lines (4)

48 Sea bird (4)

50 Atany time (4)

51 Pub drinks (4)

52 Indolently (4)