Crossword 347

ACROSS

3. Climbing plant with long, cylindrical fruits used as salad vegetables (8) 8. A pungent green paste made from mountain hollyhock (6) 9. Fibres of the Linum plant that are woven to make linen cloth (4) 10. Tube carrying away waste- or rainwater (9) 11. _____ acacia is a plant of the Robinia genus (5) 14. Travel on horseback (4) 16. Covering or appendage of some seeds (4) 18. Carrion-feeding carnivore with long, thick neck, coarse mane and sloping body (5) 21. Singing bird with reddish-orange breast (5) 23. More advanced in age (5) 26. Delays (9) 27. Tracts of land used for cultivation and pasturage (5) 28. More (5) 29. Quiver or vibrate ( 7) 30. Dens of wild animals (5) 32. Tropical shrub of the Cassia genus yielding a laxative drug (5) 33. Being; life (9) 34. Smell left by an animal (5) 37. Characteristic of life (5) 38. Web-footed carnivore ( Lutralutra) of the weasel family (5) 41. Island (poetic) (4) 43. Wild apple (tree or fruit) (4) 44. Without inherent power of moving (5) 47. Large, fierce, tawny, roaring, female animals of the cat family (9) 48. Trunk of a tree (4) 49. Sweet bay tree (6) 50. Sudden rush of a herd of frightened animals (8)

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1. Young cow (4) 2. North American name for autumn (4) 3. Alcoholic drink made from apples (5) 4. Move slowly with the body close to the ground (5) 5. Sturnoid Asiatic bird that can be taught to imitate speech (5) 6. Banishment (5) 7. Walk like a duck (6) 9. Untamed (5) 12. Egg-shaped purple fruit of the Asian annual plant Solanum-melongena (9) 13. Fine-grained beaches (5) 15. Underground, edible fructifications of fungi of the Tuber genus (8) 17. Sterile; barren (9) 19. Young horses aged 12 months (9) 20. Bouquet of wine (4) 22. Highest order of mammals, including monkeys, apes and humans ( 7) 24. That which causes explosion by spontaneous combustion (9) 25. Of a crop, able to be cut down (8) 31. Badger’s burrow (4) 32. Number of hills on which Rome was built (5) 35. Tapering, edible reddish or yellowish root (6) 36. Illustrious (5) 39. Freshwater fish ( Salmotrutta) of the salmon genus (5) 40. The rhubarb genus (5) 41. Point in dispute (5) 42. Long-stapled, hard-twisted cotton yarn originating in Northern France (5) 45. Large, flightless Australian birds (4) 46. Large plant with a single-branched, woody trunk (4)