Crossword 549

ACROSS

1. Aquatic and game birds (8)

5. Descriptive of any location that is directly under the sun at some point in the year (8)

10. Hardships; exactitudes (7)

12. Glue prepared from albuminous matter (7)

13. Barren, open land with low shrubs (5)

14. Lionlike (7)

15. Bitter substances, found in gallnuts, bark and other vegetable matter, used in dyeing and occurring in red wines (7)

16. Amounts of money owed (5)

19. Deep, rolling sound of distant thunder (6)

22. Tropical Asian tree yielding a coarse cinnamon (6)

24. Reactivate and improve the economy (7)

25. Zone (4)

26. Jelly prepared from seaweeds and used in bacteria culture (4)

28. Breast-feeds (7)

30. Small, fragrant acid fruit of Cydonia oblonga used in making jellies and marmalade (6)

33. White fur of the northern stoat’s winter coat used for trimming ceremonial robes (6)

36. Love deeply (5)

39. Elegant horse of Middle Eastern origin (7)

40. One from Luanda? (7)

41. Long lock of hair (5)

42. Unimportant (7)

43. Notion (7)

44. Stock farmers of the western US (8)

45. Short, stiff hairs (8)

DOWN

1. Songbirds (8)

2. Sluggish sandworm often used as fishing bait (7)

3. Relating to rivers (7)

4. Cleaned with water or other liquid (6)

6. Entitlements (6)

7. Italian dish of maize meal, boiled and then grilled or fried (7)

8. Tufts of flowers with scalelike bracts found on hazel and willow trees (7)

9. Croad ________ is a breed of chicken originating in China (8)

11. Young sheep (4)

17. Obliterated (7)

18. Two-wheeled attachment towed by a car or other vehicle (7)

20. Breed of hardy cattle originating in East Africa (5)

21. Rub out (5)

22. Stop (5)

23. Throng of bees (5)

27. One who occupies a property illegally (8)

29. Newborns (8)

31. One from Rome? (7)

32. Informal evening of Scottish dancing (7)

34. Tracts of land, each of similar characteristics (7)

35. Prohibited by law (7)

36. One of two bony outgrowths on a deer’s head (6)

37. Cooker (4)

38. Christian festival of the resurrection (6)