FRIDAY CROSSWORD
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11 Student of Rembrandt whose paintings A Girl Chopping Onions forms part of the Royal Collection at Buckingham Palace (3) 12 Hare’s scut; or, a chignon-like hairstyle of an equestrian or a ballerina (3) 13 Fragrant woodbine Lonicera that shares its family with the seablush (11) 14 Biopic about David Bowie; or, romanticism (8) 15 Side view or outline of a person’s head; or, short biographical sketch (7)
16 Memorandum; or, a short informal letter (4)
17 An alloy of copper and tin used by Andrea del Verrocchio and Donatello in notable equestrian sculptures (6)
19 Tumps of earth created by burrowing moles (5)
21 Military task forces; or, a person’s particulars (7)
23 Glass-cutting diamonds; or, sprightly people (6)
26 A police officer in charge of a speciallytrained dog; or, a publicity agent (7)
28 Clouds of gnats or other insects (6)
30 King of England whose throne was usurped by his cousin, Henry IV (7,1,1)
31 Circular object such as a record, CD, or centre of a daisy (4)
33 Fielders in cricket to the offside of the wicketkeeper, or their positions collectively; or, dress-like undergarments (5)
35 Cloth handwoven in the Outer Hebrides, traditionally dyed with botanical sources (5)
37 Pointed ends of pencils; or, extremities of fingers (4) 38 A young aristocratic woman making her first formal appearance in fashionable society (9)
41 Sculptured division between the architrave and the cornice of a classical entablature (6)
43 Any hawk in the genus Circus; or, a harehound (7) 44 Nickname for a Baptist; or, a water ouzel (6)
45 Custard cream; or, a shuffleboard puck (7)
46 Palfrenier; or, a fiancé or husband-to-be (5)
48 Expanses of rain or ice; or, a poetic word for sails (6) 50 Prejudice; or, diagonal line or cut across the grain of a fabric (4)
52 “Knights of the shears”, such as those in practice on Savile Row (7)
54 Fungi considered a delicacy, often found with the help of dogs or pigs (8) 56 Bird collectively known as a desert or a deceit (5,6) 57 Chain attaching a watch to a waistcoat pocket of the same name (3)
58 Word for part of the circumference of a circle that originally meant the path of the Sun from horizon to horizon (3)
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1 Chief of a newspaper or periodical (6)
2 Teasel-like prickly seed case; or, waste raw silk (4)
3 Description of an angle between 90° and 180° (6) 4 Quick grab; or, a gang of pickpockets (6)
5 French fry or a poker token (4)
6 Nets or pouches retaining chignons (6)
7 Roller in a printing press; or, a tank in a domestic hotwater system (8) 8 Half-moon windows or fanlights (8)
9 Human body’s natural covering; or, a layer forming on the surface of custard or warm milk (4)
10 Places of anchorage assigned to boats at docks, wharf, etc. (6)
18 Direction in which the needle of a navigational compass points (5)
20 Terra firma or real estate (4)
22 European name for a form of Arita ware decorated in underglaze blue with red and gold (5) 24 Index-hand; or, a breed of gun dog (7)
25 Short word for an instrument made by luthier “Antonio” (5)
26 A winch or pulley; or, height of sail (5)
27 Wild animal’s den; or, enclosure for beasts (4)
29 A piccolo oboe (7)
32 One of three celebratory cries of hurrah given in unison; or, joy (5)
33 Acoustic wave propagated by means of vibrations transmitting through air or water, thus does not exist in the vacuum of space (5)
34 Railway branch line or siding (4)
36 Numbers that are divisible by two without remainders (5)
39 English word for a pome such as a Granny Smith (5) 40 Generic name for a pet dog (4)
42 Meaning “riding on horseback”, description of an overlapping leaf (8)
43 Town in Hertfordshire, site of a house built by Robert Cecil (8)
45 A transitional or connecting passage in a piece of music (6)
46 Set routine; or, rhythm (6)
47 Dominant themes or elements in paintings, textile prints, musical works or artists’ oeuvres (6)
48 Artist who painted Marquess of Rockingham’s racehorse Whistlejacket (6) 49 Sequence or run of three in piquet (6)
51 Base of a word; or, a stalk bearing a leaf, flower, ... (4) 53 Name given in medieval times to a flock of mallards (4)
55 Bubbly mass such as espresso crema or soap suds (4)