Crossword 448

ACROSS

1. Variety of celery with a swollen

stem base (8)

5. Record of a horse’s pedigree (8)

10. Negligible (7)

12. Those who fish with rod and line (7) 13. Proclamation (5)

14. Inclination (7)

15. Cold cabinet or fridge (7)

16. Soil (5)

19. One involved in commerce (6)

22. Small section of a church with

its own altar (6)

24. Mediterranean salad herb

also called rocket (7)

25. Scheme (4)

26. Decaying plant material in bogs that

is cut in blocks and used as fuel (4) 28. Small countryside house (7)

30. Pungent root of the Raphanus genus

eaten raw as a salad vegetable (6) 33. Thin slice of bacon (6)

36. Strong or sharp in smell or taste (5) 39. _______ fruit is the product

of a granadilla (7)

40. Face-to-face insult (7)

41. One who tends horses (5)

42. Apparition (7)

43. Pollutes or tarnishes (7)

44. Tardiness (8)

45. Makes bigger (8)

DOWN

1. Whole (8)

2. Poisonous invasive plant with spikes

of yellow or orange flowers (7) 3. North American name

for cos lettuce (7)

4. Assert without proof (6)

6. Roof of straw (6)

7. Small shark of various kinds (7) 8. Coincide partly (with) (7)

9. Birds of a species of small falcon (8) 11. Rank (4)

17. Living or growing in or on water (7) 18. Large, swiftly travelling sea wave (7) 20. Indian capital territory (5)

21. Western North American

stock farm (5)

22. Mediterranean bush ( Capparis) whose edible flower buds are used in cooking (5)

23. Accumulate in great quantity (5) 27. Offer (of marriage) (8)

29. Expresses dissent or objection (8) 31. Derivation from an ancestor (7) 32. Blue or white cheese originating

in the English Midlands (7) 34. Lucerne (7)

35. Calling like an owl (7)

36. Divine messengers (6)

37. The Cape ____ is a black crow,

Corvus capensis (4)

38. Small variety of plum, oval

and dark purple (6)

MYSTERY WORD