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ACROSS

1 Curved gateway (4) 3 Improvement (7) 6 Coconut fibre (4) 9 Greek mythical flier (6) 10 Vigour, zest (3) 12 Former Spanish coinage

(6) 13 Down a pint in one go

(4) 15 Ins and ... (4) 17 Irish singer (4) 18 As early as (7) 19 Seldom seen (4) 21 Bone of the shin (5) 24 Homer’s epic (5) 26 Search (5) 28 “Some Like it...”, film

(3) 29 Great anger (3) 30 Capital of Ethiopia, ...

Ababa (5) 32 Musical exercise (5) 35 Poke (5) 39 Ocean movement (4) 41 Coming (7) 42 Compass point (4) 44 Children’s game (1,3) 45 Currency of China (4) 48 Female peacock (6) 49 Tiny bit (3) 51 Gasoline (6) 52 Medicate (4) 53 Widespread (7 54 Read superficially (4)

DOWN

1 Eager (4) 2 Not guaranteed (6) 3 Light iron-tipped spear (7) 4 Champion (3) 5 Uses (7) 7 Seaport in the Ukraine (6) 8 Street (4) 10 More than one in number

(6) 11 Fine straw hat (6) 14 “Mata ...,”Garbo film (4) 16 Large woody plant (4) 17 Pull out by force (7) 20 Heating bar (7) 22 Wicked (3) 23 Expressions of surprise

(3) 24 Inhabitant (suffix) (3) 25 Expire (3) 26 Haunt of vice (3) 27 Youth (3) 31 Caesar’s fatal date (4) 33 Warning (6) 34 Completely deficient (6) 36 Layer of the iris (4) 37 Red hot pepper (7) 38 Sporting festival, ...

Games (7) 40 Low armless couches (6) 43 Waterproof jacket (6) 46 Potato (4) 47 Squalid building or area

(4) 50 Hatchet (3)