Crossword 296

ACROSS

3. Keeper of a company of animals (8)

8. Hardy grass; its grain, used for food and for making

malt liquors and spirits (6)

9. Produce or cultivate (crops) (4)

10. To taste or relish (9)

11. Finely ground meal of grain (5)

14. Parts of cereal plants containing the seeds (4)

16. Pigeon; an emblem of innocence and gentleness (4) 18. Vegetables of the onion genus with broad, flat leaves

and slim, white bulbs (5)

21. South African antelope resembling the elk in having

a protuberance on the larynx (5)

23. At no time (5)

26. Fragrant species of wild rose; sweetbrier (9)

27. More prudent (5)

28. Name of many large birds of the family Falconidae (5) 29. Mouth-like opening ( 7)

30. Silvery freshwater fish of the carp family, with pale,

red ventral and tail fins (5)

32. Hard outer covering of a tortoise, egg or nut (5)

33. Living in the absence of free oxygen (9)

34. Species of falcon ( Falcocherrug) used in falconry (5) 37. Fruit of the oak (5)

38. Creature (5)

41. Even-toed, hoofed animal, the males having antlers (4) 43. Exclamation used to scare away birds or animals (4) 44. Imitative (5)

47. Young birds yet to fly (9)

48. Utter a loud, harsh cry, as a donkey (4)

49. Banished persons (6)

50. Shrub or tree trained to have an upright stem without

branches (8)

down

1. Young cow (4)

2. High male singing voice (4)

3. Of or by means of water (prefix) (5)

4. Savage elephant that lives apart from its herd (5) 5. Mexican agave yielding fibre used in making rope (5) 6. Aloe-like, American genus of plants that flower

rarely (5)

7. Large in grain, fibre or mesh (6)

9. Birds intermediate in size between ducks and swans (5) 12. Stem of a plant’s flat, green structure; a petiole (9) 13. Organ containing a cow’s mammary glands (5)

15. Downwind (8)

17. Allheal plants or others related to the teasels; their

rhizomes and roots that have medicinal properties (9) 19. Provable beyond doubt (9)

20. Leg joint (4)

22. Alike all over; unvarying ( 7)

24. Vine-growers (9)

25. German dry white table wine or the grape

producing it (8)

31. Common swift mammal of the order Rodentia (4) 32. Steep slope; the precipitous side of a hill or rock (5) 35. Onto land from the sea (6)

36. Wood almost as heavy and hard as stone, usually

black and capable of being finely polished (5)

39. Valued item of property (5)

40. Hooked claw or finger (5)

41. Gully made by soil erosion (5)

42. Manoeuvred little by little (5)

45. Genus of plants with tuberous roots and large, showy,

rainbow-coloured flowers (4)

46. Long-handled tools for digging up weeds and

loosening the earth (4)