Crossword 301

ACROSS

3. Squid in Mediterranean cookery (8)

8. Glossy, red fruit eaten as a salad vegetable (6)

9. At liberty (4)

10. Voracious tropical fish similar to the grey mullets (9) 11. Bread maker (5)

14. Single element, section or item (4)

16. Deep, open cut (4)

18. Flock of wild geese in flight (5)

21. Of the north or south extremities of the Earth (5) 23. Consisting of an oat stem or straw (5)

26. In leaf all year round (9)

27. Energy used for photosynthesis (5)

28. Beaches (5)

29. Very early, roughly broken stone implements ( 7) 30. Beyond (prefix) (5)

32. Abnormally fat (5)

33. Acts of setting in the ground for growth (9)

34. Strong, twilled fabric usually of worsted (5)

37. Of the haunch bone (5)

38. Bring into active operation (5)

41. Bone (prefix) (4)

43. Stupefy (4)

44. Biological group above a family but below a class (5) 47. Odourless (9)

48. Honey-making insects (4)

49. Enclosure for keeping birds (6)

50. Gently (8)

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1. Fleshy crest on the head of some birds (4)

2. Rind of the trunk and branches of a tree (4) 3. Poisonous snake of the genus Naja, found in India

and Africa (5)

4. Tree of the coniferous genus Larix, distinguished

from the cedar by the deciduous leaves (5)

5. Flesh from different animals used as food (5) 6. Awaken (5)

7. Formula for making a dish of food (6)

9. Assemblage of all forms of animal life of a region

or period (5)

12. Crocodile’s American cousin? (9)

13. White heron (5)

15. Claps (8)

17. Jurassic herbivorous dinosaur with armour of

bony plates (9)

19. Medium-sized Dutch dogs of the spitz type (9)

20. Electrically charged particles (4)

22. Self-centred persons ( 7)

24. Small, flattish, loose-skinned variety of mandarin

orange (9)

25. Start of development (8)

31. Summit, tip or point (4)

32. Willow whose twigs are used for making baskets (5) 35. The one or the other (6)

36. Taxonomic group of lower rank than a family (5) 39. Happen as a consequence (5)

40. Set the foot down (5)

41. Aquatic, fish-eating carnivore of the weasel family (5) 42. This 24-hour period (5)

45. Fall in drops (4)

46. Not often found (4)