JUMBO CROSSWORD

ACROSS

3 Small person from

The Wizard of Oz (8) 7 Close at hand (6) 8 Giuseppe - - -, composer of the opera Aida (5) 9 Press photographers (9) 10 Pearly white? (5) 11 Watchful, cautious (4) 13 Salad stick (6)

16 Could be a teddy or a grizzly (4)

17 Lackey (6)

19 Rely (on) (6)

22 First course (4, 7)

23 Public loudspeaker system (6)

25 Tantalising riddle (6) 26 Late Heartbeat and

Carry On actor (4, 7) 30 North African desert (6) 31 Historical novel and film, The Color - - - (6) 32 Beneficial to the environment (11)

34 Dense crowd (6)

36 Granny flat, eg (6) 38 Missing without permission (inits) 40 Toboggan (6)

43 Urgent request (4)

44 - - - plexus, pit of the stomach (5)

45 Harmony (9)

46 - - - reckoner, conversion chart (5)

47 Highly decorated (6) 48 State of confusion or disorder (8)

DOWN

1 Reduce in worth (7)

2 Foot pedal (7)

3 Welsh woman' s name (7) 4 Hollow (6)

5 Sing-along entertainment (7)

6 Not one or the other (7) 12 Mechanically sound (car) (10)

13 Combine into one (8) 14 Bet - - -, Coronation

Street legend (5)

15 - - - de Janeiro, Olympic host city in 2016 (3) 16 Floury soft roll (3) 18 Deeply unpleasant (5) 20 Listen secretly to a private conversation (9) 21 Dismal, dull (6)

24 Person who lives next door (9)

27 Symbolic (10)

28 Upward climb (6) 29 Lawyer' s speak? (8)

31 - - - cotta, creamy Italian dessert (5)

33 Surrender (5)

35 Lubricant (3)

37 Zero (3)

38 Made certain (7)

39 Joan of Arc' s city (7) 40 Seasoned red pork sausage (7)

41 Inspect (7) 42 Coarse-grained rock used for worktops (7)

43 Like a - - -, UK no 1 single for Madonna in 1989 (6)