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Saturday, 15th February 2025

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AAcross 9:	Dorset’s celebrated literary figure who used the names Shaston or Palladour to describe the Saxon hilltop town Shaftesbury in the fictional Wessex of his novels Jude the Obscure and Tess of the D’Urbervilles
AAcross 10:	Colloquialism meaning cheeky, chopsy, loquacious or mouthy; “rouge à lèvres” for imparting colour on one’s bouche; or, coincidently referring to an osculation/kiss, the fourth part of a Scottish peck
AAcross 11:	From “ape, copy, imitate”, a genus of plants with “monkey flowers” imagined to be masked or grinning in an apish, baboonish, buffoonish or simial manner
AAcross 13:	Word, from the French for “female gardener”, for a decorative flower box or plant stand; a garnish of mixed seasonal legumes; or, a style of drapery with a floral pattern and crescent-shaped ruffled hem
AAcross 14:	A catadromous snig which is glass-like during its stage as an elver and formerly prevalent in a cathedral city in the ceremonial county of Cambridgeshire
AAcross 15:	Word, from “clamour, din, outcry, roar”, for the report broadcast or circulated via bush telegraph, busybody, flibbertigibbet, gossiper, quidnunc, scandalmonger or tattler
AAcross 16:	French word for “work” that is found in the name of a type of appetiser or canapé eaten outside the main course or “work” of a meal
AAcross 18:	From “juice”, an Italian word for a sauce or salsa, particularly a passata-like pomodoro for pasta	SUGO
AAcross 20:	Word for an act of larruping, slippering or thwacking the derrière that also means breezily fresh, brisk, energetic, flighty, lively, outstandingly fine/large, spirited, striking beyond expectation, topping or zippy
AAcross 22:	Emblems or episemons; brooches charged with said insignias; distinctive facial features of brocks, hence said burrowers’ common name; or, distinguishing marks generally
AAcross 25:	A corrugation, crimp, furrow, pucker or other winding zigzaggy ruckle observed on creased cloth, an old wavy barrier of bricks, paper money, a ridge-cut potato chip or an unhealthy strawberry leaf; or, a rustling noise
AAcross 26:	A huckster, packman or pedlar; a falconer; or, a dragonfly/darner named for its falcon-like hunting technique of patrolling and catching prey in flight
AAcross 28:	Crayonist who creates their characteristically pale-hued works of art with the sticks of powdered pigment synonymous with delicate, muted or soft shades of colour
AAcross 29:	Word, imitative of an inarticulate sound made with one’s mouth closed, meaning silence/silent; or, a nickname of one’s mater or of a “chrysanth” with often pom-pom-like blooms
AAcross 31:	Word, preserved in the name of Germany’s “perfume city”, for a plantation, settlement or territory; or, a group of ants, artists, bacteria, bats, Beaver Scouts or nudists
AAcross 33:	Levantine literal “ball” of spiced bulgur wheat and lamb prepared as a savoury snack or as part of a meze
AAcross 34:	A mystical spodomancer or tephromancer’s means of divination in the form of the powdery dust-like cinerary remains of combustion
AAcross 36:	A four-leafed clover; or, a stylised decorative representation of said lucky charm or “truelove” in architecture, art, heraldry, textiles or tracery
AAcross 37:	An author, dam, genitor, papa, procreator or sire who “brings forth”
AAcross 40:	P L Travers’s magical nanny with a bottomless carpetbag and a parrot-head-handled flight-enabling gamp	POPPINS
AAcross 41:	A farm or ship’s cat charged with hunting murine gnawers, squeakers or timorous beasties; a mog proficient at catching rodents generally; a prying person; or, in Scotland, a man’s whiskers
AAcross 42:	A “little lump” of suet-enriched dough for a casserole or stew; a pudding of apple encased in said soft stodgy paste; or, by extension, a round or roly-poly-shaped person or thing
AAcross 44:	Word, related to a term for a seller of ink, paper and pens, for a sojourn, stop-off, stopover or other standstill
AAcross 46:	Historical weighing of loads of coal or grain; or, the official measurer’s fee for the quantifying of said goods
AAcross 49:	Brown Betty or other short stout cha vessel, with a handle and spout, with which to tip up and pour out
AAcross 50:	Name, homophonous with that of an ostrich- or emu-like nandoo, of a style of shaggy Swedish rug
AAcross 51:	W H Auden’s Greek-derived word meaning “place to love”, thus one’s sense of place or affection for one’s physical environment
AAcross 53:	Insect resin synonymous with a coating, defeat, nail polish, an old 78 gramophone record or varnish
AAcross 54:	Flat sheet of precious metal, thus utensils of bullion for table or house
AAcross 55:	From “laugh”, word for cheery, jolly merry or other antonym of gloomy
DDown 1:	A back-formation of a word for a metal cooking frame, used to describe a lattice, mesh or network of intersecting horizontal/vertical lines; or, the face, particularly when lined
DDown 2:	Related to “breast, chest”, name of a historical breastplate, coat of mail, hauberk or knight’s mail shirt
DDown 3:	A gripping tool distinguished by its use for bending, crimping, folding or twisting when working with wire
DDown 4:	Scots word for divine, forewarn, predict or prophesy; or, with “wife”, a seeress or sibyl who soothsays
DDown 5:	From Old Norse for “female dogs”, a word for cheeky scamps, curs, mongrels, rough ill-mannered fellows or Yorkshire terriers; or, a derogatory nickname for Yorkshiremen
DDown 6:	One of the names, punningly referred to in a phrase meaning “eat your words” or “swallow your pride”, for a bakemeat made from the inferior entrails or offal of a deer	UMBLE PIE
DDown 7:	Love-lies-bleeding with “unfading” droplets of sanguine flowers
DDown 8:	Latin, from “nourish, foster-sons, nurslings”, for former male pupils
DDown 9:	From “raise, take, two hands full”, a word meaning haul, hitch or hoist that, when suffixed with “ho”, indicates a sailor’s traditional rope-hauling call
DDown 12:	Convey secretly; or, to cuddle
DDown 17:	Word that derives from “animated, enliven, excite”, yet is used to describe an inanimate object in the form of a cabbage, carrot, cauliflower, courgette, cucumber or other edible part of a plant
DDown 19:	Corn to be “querned” into flour; malt for one brewing; or, profit
DDown 21:	The act of creaming the top off milk; or, the lait duly despumated
DDown 23:	Family of Cremonese luthiers who developed and standardised the shape of cellos, violas and violins
DDown 24:	From “wood nymph”, name of an imaginary invisible spirit of the air that, with three other elemental beings, originated in the writings of Paracelsus; or, any slender graceful damsel
DDown 25:	Porcelain used to make the dishes whose name rhymes with “mates”
DDown 27:	Espalier trained to grow flat against brickwork; or, the apples, figs, pears, plums, quinces or other edible crop grown on said fan-shaped tree	WALL FRUIT
DDown 30:	Whingy gripes, grouses or grumbles; or, long mournful murmurs of pain
DDown 31:	From the name of the red ball in billiards, word for a cannon in said game, thus any ricochet or rebound
DDown 32:	Word meaning band of musicians, disgust, disturbance or possibly nausea or seasickness originally, now a din, clamour, racket or sound of any kind
DDown 35:	Word for the desire that “springs eternal”; or, paired with “chest”, a synonym for the bottom drawer or glory box for a woman’s trousseau
DDown 36:	Word for a stuffed mattress first, later a layered, padded or stuffed often patchworked coverlet for said bed, biscuit or palliasse
DDown 38:	An old word for “woo”; or, from “straight, towards”, the direction of one’s home, mail or speech
DDown 39:	Word for a dogvane, indicator, maritime compass, narrator, recording clock, snitch, squealer, tattling bird or other revelatory person or thing
DDown 40:	A sharp jab of a sartor’s tingle or tack, thus a tiny dot, jot, mildly annoying wound or needling irritation
DDown 43:	Word, from “rag-baby”, for a doll-like little girl/child; or, dog with a woolly coat like a floor-cleaning swab
DDown 45:	A pipping yapping dog; or, a golfer with a nervous twitch or the wobbles, as a result of performance anxiety
DDown 46:	From “wander aimlessly”, word for gloominess or low spirits; or, in the US, a petty offence, such as loitering
DDown 47:	Word for a sudden slip, slide or oblique movement first, later a bright gleam, brief indication, momentary flash or a twinkle in the eye
DDown 48:	Hymenopterous appledrains or jaspers to which buzzy flighty narrow-waisted Italian Vespa motor scooters are likened
DDown 51:	Wood that is water resistant, hence used in shipbuilding for millennia
DDown 52:	Fearsome Russian tsar who ruled with a formidable iron fist, hence his moniker “Grozny” or “Terrible”	IVAN

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