Crossword 441

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3. Chemical preparation used

to remove leaves (9)

9. Ground-dried berries producing

a pungent, aromatic condiment (6) 10. Border (4)

11. Ungraceful (9)

12. Wooden container of curved staves

bound with hoops (6)

15. Owl’s call (4)

16. A leaf of grass (5)

19. At this place (4)

21. Small piece of dry food,

especially bread (5)

22. Constellation and sign of the zodiac,

the Ram (5)

25. Reddish-yellow pigment in plants that is converted to vitamin A in the body (7)

27. Dry bed of a river or torrent (4)

28. Glow or shine moderately (5)

29. Lineage; pedigree (9)

30. Cut of beef taken from the short loin

that includes a lumbar vertebra (1-4) 31. Food on a hook to attract fish (4) 32. A genus of the buckthorn family,

also called New Jersey tea (7)

34. Horseman or -woman (5)

37. Heavy ungulate of Africa and Asia:

black, white or Indian (abbr.) (5) 38. Member of the cat family with

long legs and tufted ears (4)

40. Country, capital Khartoum (5)

43. Bean named after a Peruvian city (4) 45. Drives back; repulses (6)

48. Game bird (genus Perdix) of

the pheasant family (9)

49. Mountain range running

through Switzerland (4)

50. Second-largest continent (6)

51. Existing only for a day (9)

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1. A soft, crumbly, brined Greek cheese (4) 2. Goading instrument on

a horse rider’s heel (4)

3. Instrument for boring holes (5)

4. Piece of ground enclosed for

cultivation or pasture (5)

5. Vegetable of the onion genus with

broad leaves and a slim bulb (4) 6. Conscious (of) (5)

7. Tie an animal to a post with

a length of rope or chain (6)

8. Pay no attention to (6)

12. Part of a river out of the current (9) 13. Small pieces of timber from

tree tops used for furniture (9)

14. Flows back, like the tide (4)

17. Any parasitic nematode worm (7) 18. Full of mistakes (9)

20. Stretch of open country

used for grazing (5)

23. Repetitive; incessant (9)

24. Lavish; magDnificent (9)

26. Grilled (bread) (7)

29. Fermented pear juice (5)

33. Sea eagle (4)

35. Hanging spike of frozen water (6) 36. Of time, to pass by (6)

39. A point of the compass (5)

41. Beneath (5)

42. Two-dimensional (5)

44. Flour made from ground chickpeas (4) 46. Pig’s flesh as food (4)

47. Flat-bodied, wingless

parasitic insects (4)