Crossword

ACROSS

1. Hidden dangers (8)

5. Spicy Spanish vegetable soup,

served cold (8)

10. Seedless, thin-skinned type

of mandarin orange (7)

12. Even-tempered (7)

13. Female fox (5)

14. Event preceding and preparing

for another (7)

15. Most loved (7)

16. Tropical shrub of the Cassia genus,

yielding a laxative drug (5)

19. Rogue, scamp (6)

22. Security device that

detects movement (6)

24. Stretchy (7)

25. Asian bean grown for fodder and

as a source of bean sprouts (4)

26. Agriculture (prefix) (4)

28. Attire, dress (archaic) (7)

30. Uncover (6)

33. Like better (6)

36. Senses by touch (5)

39. Variety of domestic pigeon with

rear feathers spread out (7)

40. Type of large, bulbous cloud

with a horizontal base (7)

41. Act of going in (5)

42. Pedigree (7)

43. Moving vehicles and

pedestrians collectively (7)

44. Drink of white wine with

soda water (8)

45. Fails to fulfil a financial obligation (8)

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1. International travel document (8)

2. Ties (an animal) to a post

with a rope or chain (7)

3. North American name for rocket (7) 4. Parts of plants that transpire and

assimilate carbon (6)

6. List of items for discussion

at a meeting (6)

7. Bird’s covering of feathers (7)

8. Spiders’ traps (7)

9. Initial move towards negotiations

or an agreement (8)

11. Bovine used as draught animals (4) 17. Something characteristic of its kind (7) 18. Existing in or created by nature (7) 20. Of oil, unrefined (5)

21. Allowed by law (5) 22. Skin on which the hair

of the head grows (5)

23. Audacity (5)

27. Underground edible fruits of

fungi of the Tuber genus (8) 29. Divides into three parts (8)

31. Wine merchant (7)

32. Stubborn (7)

34. Small cake leavened with yeast

and soaked in rum syrup (3,4) 35. Deep-fried ball of ground,

dried chickpeas (7)

36. Sheep’s or goat’s coat of wool (6) 37. Consumes (4)

38. Curve-bladed hand tool

for cutting crops (6)