CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 peel / trim 4 sea eagles 8 an aqualung 10 reel 11 open sandwich / hors

d’oeuvere 13 boat propelled by a

steam engine 15 marketplace / place

of assembly 16 music sung or played at night by a lover under his lady’s window 17 garment worn by Indi

an women 18 baked dish of fruit, meat, custard with a top and base of pastry 19 jumbled letters to

read ‘gold’ 21 jumbled letters to

read ‘tile’ 22 creative skill 23 hearing organ 24 jumbled letters to

read ‘learn’ 27 rubbish or waste ma

terial / shred 31 archaic for ‘you’ 33 pierced with a horn /

stabbed 35 beneficiaries / inher

itors 37 expression of surprise

or inquiry 39 not ever 41 group of three 43 court / seek the hand

or love of a woman 45 take legal action 47 native of Scotland 49 narcotic / upper/

downer 51 doctrine / principle 52 archaic for ‘you’ 53 twists / warps 56 a representation of Mary in sculpture or painting grieving over the body of Jesus after the crucifixion 57 ridicules intended to

expose the truth 58 twelve of these make

a year 59 funeral mounds 60 enjoys / is fond of 61 jumbled letters to

read ‘seep’ 62 plod often through

water

DOWN

1 insect in the stage of development, larva and imago 2 ‘ honest _ _ _ _ _ _’ 3 Egyptian sun god 4 sharp-pointed dueling

sword 5 reddish-brown with a thick sprinkling of white hairs as in horses / soft flexible sheepskin used in bookbinding 6 wanderer / gypsy 7 sled or sleigh for carrying loads over ice or snow 8 making sounds when

sleeping 9 set of bells 10 expanse / draw out or

elongate 11 lawsuit / event / con

tainer 12 hard semi-precious

stone 13 jumbled letters to

read ‘sires’ 14 pass on / transmit 16 health resort 20 native minerals 25 unit of surface measure in the metric system 26 accelerate / speed up

the engine 28 dampen or soak flax 29 ventilate / musical tone / gas forming the atmosphere 30 in its original condi

tion / primeval 32 vulgar / indecent 34 yearns / craves 36 small packets 38 head coverings 40 corrodes / oxidizes 42 archaic of ‘does’ 44 narcotic 46 printer’s measures 48 Chinese beverages 50 bar / preclude 54 period / age / oppor

tunity 55 globes 56 push / snoop or in

terfere 58 half / middle 60 musical note