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Saturday, 18th January 2025

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 9:	Name, similar to that of a famous trapeze artist’s, of a Swiss artist who adopted Turkish dress and created, in paint or pastel, The Chocolate Girl, The Early Breakfast, Portrait of Lady with Hyacinth and Still Life: Tea Set	LIOTARD
AAcross 10:	Hemispherical tea holder to which an acorn bract, brassière balconette, butter-yellow ranunculaceous flower, egg holder, golf hole, sports trophy and many other things are likened
AAcross 11:	Word for a slight meal or snack taken on a domestic bench first, later a lavish formal dinner or sumptuous spread followed by speeches; or, an elaborate feast generally
AAcross 13:	A scentless mignonette whose other name, dyer’s rocket, refers to its yield of yellow dye; or, said natural pigment itself that, when mixed with blue woad, creates Lincoln green
AAcross 14:	Rich variety of English blue cheese named for the location in Cambridgeshire of the coaching inn in which it was originally sold
AAcross 15:	Heavy ornamental arras whose name derives from “carpet”, for said rug was formerly too valuable to walk upon, thus used as a wall hanging
AAcross 16:	A bowl, cask, jar, pan, pot, pitcher or other domestic utensil designed as a receptacle; a large boat or ship; or, in its biblical sense, a person regarded as a container of feelings or an embodiment of qualities
AAcross 18:	Word, from “cut, shear, piece, roll of papyrus”, for one of several volumes of a literary work originally, later any large weighty usually scholarly book
AAcross 20:	An assembly, bookbinding, crowd, flock, muster, party, pucker, shirr or other bringing together of animals, people or things
AAcross 22:	Layered pudding of cream, custard, jelly and sponge cake whose name, meaning “thing of little significance”, is apt, for it is of little consequence to make and very easy to eat
AAcross 25:	Word for an electric current’s orbital path, a judge’s regular beat, a racing car’s racetrack, a runner’s lap or other journey/distance round
AAcross 26:	Word, from “beat seeds out of corn/grain”, for a chastising flog with a whip, a fast race, a flail or writhe about, a lavish noisy party, a loud piece of rock music or a severe trounce
AAcross 28:	French culinary term for a “crumpled” preparation of ribboned or shredded herbs or leafy vegetables as a garnish for soup or salad
AAcross 29:	Word for a deep dive, dunk or plunge into bath water, candle wax, hummus, a pocket, sheep pesticide, the sea or anything else
AAcross 31:	An equestrian settle to which a col, a cut of hare/lamb/mutton, an earthworm’s clitellum, a fowl’s back, a lathe’s carriage and many other seat-like things are likened
AAcross 33:	Word meaning fill, pervade or pour; or, soak, as in herbs or tea leaves
AAcross 34:	Word imitative of a cork being drawn from a bottle of ginger beer, champagne or other effervescing drink; the fizz itself; or, one’s pater
AAcross 36:	“Light lover’s” hobby involving the collecting of matchbook covers, matchbox labels and “skillets”
AAcross 37:	Workers in bronze, gold, iron, silver, words or anything else
AAcross 40:	Word for the act of following or chasing a fast car, game, a hobby, knowledge, love, a track bike, trivia etc; or, that which is striven after
AAcross 41:	With punning use of the Latin for “at length”, word for a carriage drawn by a long set-up of two horses, one behind the other; or, a bicycle for two riders in a similar lengthy formation
AAcross 42:	Fabric of flax/linen and horsehair, whose name transferred to a steel-hooped petticoat that is stiffened
AAcross 44:	Cleanser whose name is given to any serialised melodramatic television or radio “sudser”; or, smooth words
AAcross 46:	An animal, bird or creature distinguished by its nidification of a bink, cage, drey, eyrie, formicary, hive, vespiary, wurley or other nidus
AAcross 49:	One who hunts with the “little robber” or “stinky weasel thief” known as a domesticated polecat; or, one who assiduously searches, like said musteline forager
AAcross 50:	Sweet or savoury miniature flan or quiche whose dainty size affords its use as an appetiser or canapé
AAcross 52:	Word meaning brave, courageous or daring; full-bodied, as in currants or wine; impudent, naughty, presumptuous or saucy; set in heavy face; very steep or abrupt; or, vivid
AAcross 53:	A female lupus, such as the one that suckled the mythical twin brothers Romulus and Remus	SHE-WOLF
AAcross 54:	Slang, from “arrest, capture, catch, seize”, for a bobby, PC or plod
AAcross 55:	From “bring forth, publish”, word for one of the forms in which a book or newspaper is produced; a press run; a single copy from this set; a reproduction; or, any version
DDown 1:	From gelu “frost”, word that describes the temperature of an Arctic blast, ice or one’s figurative feet when one’s ardour is extinguished
DDown 2:	Word for a clasp or fibula first, now a pendant ornament consisting of a tuft of threads secured by a knob/knot
DDown 3:	Word, in a real or figurative sense, meaning aimless, anchorless, at sea, cut loose, floating, lost or off course
DDown 4:	Cornish or Devonian dialect for a blow, break, rain shower, spell or throw; or, nonsense jazz singing
DDown 5:	From “thorn, prickle”, word for one’s real or metaphorical backbone
DDown 6:	Word, from “drawn away”, for an abridgement, idea, précis or symbolic artwork representing the essence of something
DDown 7:	Word for a brief summary, quick glimpse, hasty firing of a gun, hurried photo, instant record, swift boot of a football or other abrupt happening or spur-of-the-moment thing
DDown 8:	Any one of numerous active galactic nuclei whose name reflects the initial confusion surrounding their almost star-like appearance in optical telescopes or photographic images
DDown 9:	Composer, with librettist Alan Jay Lerner, of the “abso-bloomin’-lutely loverly” musical My Fair Lady
DDown 12:	Elevated seats of kings, queens or popes; or, the third order of angels
DDown 17:	A small characteristically stoneless squishable food of bramble, cane, earth or vine, such as a blackberry, goosegog, grape, rasp, redcurrant or strawberry	SOFT FRUIT
DDown 19:	An old, poetic or Scottish name for a blackbird that also refers to a collie or other dog with a bluish-grey coat speckled or dappled with black
DDown 21:	Coagulated milk used in caseiculture; or, something of similar consistency, such as dahi, lemon cheese, poached salmon fat or tofu
DDown 23:	An abbreviated title of a privy councillor, or of any peer subordinate to a marquis	RT HON
DDown 24:	From “leap”, word simply meaning abscond, bolt or run away originally, later secretly with one’s lover or paramour in order to get married
DDown 25:	A bite, as in a horse on its bit; a colcannon-like Irish dish of potatoes mashed with leeks and spring onions; a title-holder; or, in heraldry, a field
DDown 27:	First principles, thus basic flams and rolls forming the building blocks of more complex drumming patterns
DDown 30:	A copy, a newspaper, a replica, a stamp, type or other impression
DDown 31:	Word for a crack of a ship broken by a rock first, later a lengthways divide, slash or slit of a banana, cream bun, curtain, plank or anything else
DDown 32:	From “lengthen”, a sword thrust; or, a long rein used in horse-training
DDown 35:	Knitting stitch whose name sounds like that of a lustrous nacreous gem
DDown 36:	From the Roman name of the god of the underworld aka “the rich one”, the largest of the dwarf planets
DDown 38:	Word, from the Old French for “little bites”, for bonnes bouches, mouthfuls, nibbles or tastes
DDown 39:	From “loosen, unfasten”, word for something dissolved, or that resolves or unravels, as in a crossword clue
DDown 40:	Word for skill with calligraphy, chirography or other beautiful script handwritten with a nib, quill, stylograph etc; or, the art of composition
DDown 43:	Word for a baby’s bottle; or, a carer, fosterer, tender or other nurturer or nourisher of people or things
DDown 45:	Term for a flat wooden blade that is related to a word for a flat wooden board for the mixture of paints
DDown 46:	Spanish word for an otter, which is used to refer to the orange-toothed coypu whose genus, Myocastor, means “mouse beaver” or, its fur
DDown 47:	Forename of the English novelist Mrs Henry Wood, who wrote books about Danesbury House, East Lynne and Mrs Halliburton’s troubles	ELLEN
DDown 48:	A hayrick, log pile or other heap
DDown 51:	Word for a length of strong funicular cord, thus a cohesive strand or linked line of beads, climbers, glutinous slime, onions, pearls or other people or things
DDown 52:	A sharp rap or tap; a repetitive drip or electronically generated pip; a dot on a radar target screen; its accompanying sound; or, a glitch, snag or other unforeseen irregularity

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