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Saturday, 25th January 2025

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 11:	Kentish market town whose name, through nominal association with the noble snacking gaming enthusiast John Montagu, is given to a “piece” of two slices of buttered bread with a filling of cheese, cucumber, egg , jam, meat or spread
AAcross 12:	An ornamental centrepiece with branching holders for a selection of fruits, nuts and sweetmeats, whose name, from “economy, saving”, refers to the space saved by sharing said frippery among guests around a dining table
AAcross 13:	An oblong, square or triangle of bunting as a vexillary emblem, ensign, signal or standard; a yellow iris; a bushy tail; or, from the Old Norse for “slice of turf”, a flat slab or paving-stone
AAcross 14:	Word originally for a brief motto, line of verse or short sentiment engraved inside a ring, later a corsage, little bouquet, nosegay or other small bunch of flowers
AAcross 15:	Word for a flat board on which an artist arranges, blends and lays paints, thus for a range of colours or tones
AAcross 16:	Word meaning to cover or protect with an earthwork originally, later to hide safely; or, to cuddle up, nestle, settle or snuggle, as in a large warm comfortable armchair
AAcross 17:	From “bone, tile” and related to “ostracise”, name of a bivalve mollusc sometimes hiding or concealing a pearl; or, a secretive person
AAcross 19:	Word for a manner or way originally, later a class, ilk, kind or species; or, informally, a person
AAcross 21:	Word for an act of recording an inventory of the goods or merchandise held by a business, thus a reassessment of one’s current progress, prospects or situation
AAcross 21:	Word for an act of recording an inventory of the goods or merchandise held by a business, thus a reassessment of one’s current progress, prospects or situation
AAcross 23:	A curer of bacon, cheese, duck or salmon; a user of tobacco; a train carriage or men-only gathering for inhaling or puffing said leaf; a vent in the ocean’s floor; or, in apiculture, a beekeeper’s pipe for calming a hive
AAcross 26:	Name, in reference to its habitation of boscage, forest or other sylvan abode, for the brown/tawny hooting bird of the night, Strix aluco	WOOD OWL
AAcross 27:	From “green vegetable eaten green”, word for a courgette, pattypan, pumpkin, marrow or related cucurbit; or, a game played with a soft crushable rubber ball of the same name
AAcross 29:	From “pledge”, word for a betrothal, date, espousal, fight/battle, period of employment, hand-promise or other act of entering into a contract
AAcross 30:	French word for a dance step or movement in ballet that also means right to move, aka precedence
AAcross 32:	Word for sandpipers, stilts and other long-legged water-walking shorebirds, thus anglers’ or fly-fishers’ chest-, hip- or thigh-high waterproof boots for wallowing
AAcross 34:	Word, from “savoury seasonings”, for dishes of field greens, herbs, leaves and/or vegetables; or, plants grown for use in said mesclun/mixtures
AAcross 35:	Romany word, from the Sanskrit for “brother”, for a chum or mate
AAcross 37:	Brazen ornament traditionally adorning the harness of a shire, Suffolk punch or other draught steed	HORSE BRASS
AAcross 38:	Eric Mowbray Knight’s imaginary loyal collie, whose name is a Scottish epithet for a girl or young lady
AAcross 41:	An impression of bark, a coin, a metal plate or other inscribed or textured surface by the application of friction on paper laid over it with chalk, crayon, heelball or pencil
AAcross 42:	China clay used for porcelain, whose name in question refers to the high hill in Jiangxi province where said lithomarge was first obtained
AAcross 43:	Colloquialism for incomprehensible or pretentious bureaucratic jargon, logorrhoea or verbiage characterised by prolix abstract circumlocution, aka gobbledegook or mumbo-jumbo
AAcross 45:	An arm, branch, leg, pinion, wing or other non-trunk membral thing
AAcross 47:	From “distribute”, an old dialectical word for a buttery, larder or pantry; or, in Scotland, an inner room such as the parlour of a farmhouse or cottage
AAcross 50:	Caviar, chocolate truffle, earth-nut, kickshaw or other characteristically dainty, delightful or fine culinary luxury; or, refinement of taste
AAcross 51:	An arboresque stand equipped with branch-like pegs on which to hang one’s bonnets, chapeaux, everyday millinery, headgear and the like	HAT TREE
AAcross 53:	A pilus likened to a strand of capellini pasta or figuratively split when one is over-refining minutiae
AAcross 54:	Silence after noise or for the concealment of secret information
AAcross 55:	Word meaning jolly along; a cluck made with the lips when urging forth one’s pony or hack; a cheep of a bird; or, a click of a cricket
AAcross 56:	Term for a fear of good news
DDown 1:	Word for an Egyptian couch with mosquito curtains originally, later a tester for a four-poster or a throne; or, a forest’s topmost awning of foliage
DDown 2:	Word for a whirlpool or whirlwind, thus a contrary current of thought
DDown 3:	A male salmon during the spawning season; or, a copper-coloured cured herring to whose butterflied shape a wide necktie is likened
DDown 4:	Calcareous chick-containers, capsules, carapaces, cartridges, cockles , coffins, conchs, cowries or other comparable cases/coverings
DDown 5:	The recurrent pulse, stroke or throb of a bird’s wings, clock’s hands, person’s heart, maestro’s baton, pheasant rouser’s stick, police officer’s feet or a timpanist’s drumsticks
DDown 6:	Word for the sloping cutting edge of a chisel, thus an oblique face of a cut diamond; or, a grooved collet in which said gem or a watch crystal is set
DDown 7:	From the Latin root “field”, word used to denote or describe a plant growing wild in the open country or a weed on cultivated ground
DDown 8:	Chaussettes, half-hose, netherlings or other foot-warmers of an extra-snug cosy type for wearing in one’s berth, bunk, cot, divan, hay or truckle
DDown 9:	Word meaning buoyant or natant, either nautically or financially
DDown 10:	Skillet-cooked crêpes eaten on Shrove Tuesday in a custom symbolic of nothing more than indulging and using up one’s butter, eggs, flour, milk and sugar before a fast
DDown 18:	Falafels, fish suppers, frankfurters, French fries and other foods-to-go; or, facts and findings similarly characterised by being carried off to be digested elsewhere
DDown 20:	Word for a perch for fowls; a group of said birds or bats resting together; a hen house; a sleeping-place; a Scottish garret or loft; a spar of a roof; or, an Orcadian tidal race
DDown 22:	From “small bay”, word for a barrel stave, crinoline band, croquet arch, earring or other circle of metal
DDown 24:	Word for a blanket, cloak or shawl; or, a gigantic ray named for being caught in a blanketing trap or for resembling an enormous quilt
DDown 25:	Horizontal strips of sails that can be furled and secured with double knots; sandbanks or shoals; or, in gold mining, veins of auriferous quartz
DDown 26:	With no known cognates, a word for a puppy, wolf cub or other young animal, thus a boy, child, insolent youth, lad or scamp
DDown 28:	Word for a muted, pale or subdued colour, feeling, quality, sound or voice; or, a low state of body
DDown 31:	Scots or regional name for the little brown spadger commonly called a house sparrow
DDown 32:	A ruined ship or person; or, that which is cast ashore by the sea
DDown 33:	Fried patty of grated potato that, as its Swiss German name indicates, is cooked until “crisp and golden”
DDown 36:	A roundish part/division of a brain, ear, kidney, leaf or other organ
DDown 37:	Free-spirited little orphan girl in Johanna Spyri’s classic children’s novel said to be inspired by the idyllic Alpine village of Maienfeld	HEIDI
DDown 39:	Word, from “spider” or “spider’s web”, meaning “cobwebby”
DDown 40:	From “choosing carefully”, word for the quality of being stylish and graceful in appearance or manner
DDown 41:	Consisting of dry ingredients of batter, bread, concrete, genoise etc that have been pre-prepared so that only eggs, milk or water need adding before cooking/stirring	READY-MIX
DDown 44:	Word for a bird or plane’s airborne journey; a soaring of swallows or other avians; the trajectory of an arrow or dart; a wandering of fancy or imagination; or, an act of fleeing
DDown 46:	A herb, moth, medieval cloth, saxifrage or wild rose whose name is similar to a word for brown hair
DDown 47:	Brooms, chimney brushes, cricket shots/strokes, long oars or windmill sails distinguished by sooping
DDown 48:	From “decision, judge”, word for the turning point of a disease, thus any crunch, emergency or juncture
DDown 49:	Word for an incantation or magic spell first, later an attractive quality
DDown 52:	Binding, fillet, magnetic spool, ribbon, sticky strip or other thin band
DDown 53:	The corneous part of an equid’s ungula; an animal with said trotter; or, facetiously, a person’s foot

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