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Saturday, 22nd February 2025

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AAcross 9:	Surname of the character Becky in Old Carthusian W M Thackeray’s novel Vanity Fair, whose career progresses from articled pupil at Miss Pinkerton’s academy to amoral adventuress and unashamed social climber
AAcross 10:	Archaically, a boundary water; dialectically, a gap; vernacularly, a broken piece, crock or scrap of pottery; or, zoologically, from a misunderstanding of Shakespeare, a beetle’s elytron or wing case
AAcross 11:	French word, from the Italian for “aqua, puddle, watering place”, for a type of opaque watercolour pigment; or, a picture, such as Paul Sandby’s Tea at Englefield Green, painted using the body colour described
AAcross 13:	Name, from “bilberry”, of an aristocratic or royal colour such as azure, sapphire or Saxe; or, powder or pigment of this hue, traditionally used to preserve the whiteness of laundry or to rinse one’s hair
AAcross 14:	From “four members of an army”, a game played with pawns or “foot soldiers” synonymous with cat’s-paws, dupes, puppets or stooges
AAcross 15:	From “touch”, a term for flavour or gust; or, a small drop of wine or morsel of food to sample or test
AAcross 16:	Based on “nest”, a falcon chick, hawk baby or other unfledged nestling taken from the nidus for training
AAcross 17:	Manuscript, as opposed to printing or typing; thus, one’s individual style of said penmanship; or, the manner by which one may be recognised
AAcross 19:	General term for a meteorological disturbance manifesting as a gale, hooley, hurricane, squall, tempest or other rapidly blowing, twining, venting or wandering stir of air
AAcross 21:	Term for a burial mound, hill, tumulus or wheeled handcart that also means a castrated boar
AAcross 24:	From “web, to weave”, term for the character of a fabric, thus the consistency, feel, grain, tactile quality etc of any tangible thing
AAcross 25:	Vitellary or yolky colour of a proverbial brick road or path leading to a promised land of one’s dreams, fame, hopes or wealth
AAcross 27:	From the French for “keep clothes”, name for a medieval castle’s closets, but also its privies or jakes
AAcross 29:	A colloquialism meaning to catch, collar, grab, nick, nobble, seize or snatch; the cock of a gunlock or keeper of a door latch; a hilltop, projection or promontory; or, formerly, the head or a hat
AAcross 31:	Scots term for a wooden bowl for liquor or a staved vessel for porridge; a mischievous dash or quick scamper; a clattering noise; most notably, an altercation, petty squabble, quarrel or wrangle; or, of rain, to patter
AAcross 33:	Term for a saint’s life story, a fable, an inscription, a map’s key, a motto, a myth, a traditional untrue/unhistorical tale or other “thing to be perused”
AAcross 34:	Word for putrefaction or decay, thus collapse; corruption; or, bunkum, nonsense, poppycock or rubbish
AAcross 36:	Jacksmelt or a whitebait-like fish distinguished by its argentine or shiny grey lateral stripe; or, a cut of beef with an iridescent membrane
AAcross 37:	From “may it benefit”, a traditional German drinking toast meaning “cheers!”, “good health!” or “skol!”
AAcross 40:	Bread-bakers’, cake-makers’ or cocktail-shakers’ utensils for removing fine shreds or twists of peel from lemons, limes, oranges and other citrus fruits
AAcross 41:	A type of tunic connecting by association heralds, household staff, knights, members of the clergy, peasants, servants and warriors
AAcross 43:	In hoteldom, a term for “demi- pension” whereby a guest is provided with bed, breakfast and supper, as opposed to all three daily meals in the full “pension complète” manner	HALF BOARD
AAcross 45:	Term meaning steadily combusting, fuming or smouldering, either literally or figuratively; or, unfolding contemplatively/ gradually, as in a film or a story	SLOW-BURNING
AAcross 50:	Name, similar to that of a ballpoint pen, of a Spanish surrealist whose “dream paintings” are characterised by spiky or amoebic shapes in primary colours, outlined in black
AAcross 51:	Sharing its root “to play” with a simple parlour game, a word meaning to baffle; or, to escape by cunning
AAcross 52:	Any one of the sides or “visages” of a crystal, cut gem or metaphorically many-sided multifarious person
AAcross 53:	Cereal grasses, with grains synonymous with carnal indiscretions of youth, whose stems are used to make traditional shepherds’ pipes
AAcross 54:	Lyonnais equivalent of Punch, whose name, in his native France, is synonymous with puppet theatre	GUIGNOL
AAcross 55:	Fireplace in or next to a nook
AAcross 56:	Accompaniments for deep-fried fish fillets; money; a nickname for carpenters; splinters; or, small chocks of wood metaphorically on shoulders of habitually combative individuals
DDown 1:	“Livid” yet calming fragrant herb used for centuries to scent laundry, perfumes and soaps and to promote cleanliness, hence its etymological connection to washing or “wash”
DDown 2:	A bar-like key, bushing, plastic cross or other thing for placing a blank, chink, gap or void between printed type, pulleys, tiles etc; or, an astronaut
DDown 3:	Term, from “to look” and related to a word for eyeglasses, for outlook; or, view in a specific direction
DDown 4:	Scots name for a cup, glass or little goblet; a draught/drop of liquor in said vessel; or, a heap, mow or stack
DDown 5:	Forename of the novelist Wharton who drew inspiration from her experiences within the elite circles of New York’s high society during the Gilded Age, becoming the first woman to win a Pulitzer Prize	EDITH
DDown 6:	Kitchen spatula characterised by its use in “eyren”-based culinary tasks, including lifting sunny side up or over-easy fried œufs, turning omelettes and scrambling yolks/whites	EGG SLICE
DDown 7:	Neologism coined to refer to a 24-hour sickie characterised by literally or ostensibly staying in bed under one’s eiderdown, puff or quilt rather than going to work/school	DUVET DAY
DDown 8:	From “song”, a term for brogue, pronunciation, tone of voice or twang, such as the sing-songy tonal language among the Chinese or Swedish
DDown 9:	Latin word for a wood that also refers to a Spanish poetic form
DDown 12:	From “association”, botanical Latin for the aggregate achenes, drupels or fruitlets forming a blackberry, custard apple, fraise, rasp or a tuft of old man’s beard from the traveller’s joy
DDown 18:	An affinity, friendship, linked group, union, valence or other “bond”
DDown 20:	Gaelic bard or poet’s name for a canto, poem, song, stanza or verse
DDown 22:	Something you or “I say” in the form of an old saw or traditional saying
DDown 23:	Adjective meaning cabled, connected or online; or, literally or figuratively amped or electrified
DDown 24:	Earthy hump, lump or swelling in the form of a dahlia root, cassava, Jerusalem artichoke, potato or yam
DDown 26:	Latin word, similar to the name of a sacred water lily, meaning “place”
DDown 28:	Noun for personal attire or a frock that, as an adjective, means apply vinaigrette to salad, prepare poultry, prune a tree, style the hair or tie a fly
DDown 30:	Girdles or baldrics of the sort referred to in a pugilistic phrase for low blow, uncalled-for or underhand
DDown 31:	The wavering baa, bray or maa of a calf, kid or lamb, thus a person’s feeble complaint, plaintive cry or whine
DDown 32:	Hedgerow shrub represented in the ancient Celtic ogam tree alphabet by Ruis, the letter “R”
DDown 35:	Informal name for a chum that also means balderdash and bunkum
DDown 36:	Iron alloy synonymous with fortitude, nerve and strength
DDown 38:	The first of the “three Rs”
DDown 39:	Old school slang for a leapfrogger’s bonce or noggin; or, something of trifling value, especially a chew, coin, quart of ale or stamp worth 2d
DDown 40:	Spanish term, from “blackberry, bramble”, that refers to a Catalan bouillabaisse-like seafood stew; Spanish operetta/vaudeville; a royal palace of España; or, metonymically, the monarchy of Spain
DDown 42:	French for “good fellow” or “good comrade”, thus camaraderie, cheerful friendliness, congeniality, conviviality or cordiality
DDown 44:	Term meaning bloomy, blossomy, chintzy, fleury or flourishing, thus flushed, rosy or ruddy; or, baroque, elaborately ornate, flamboyant, grandiloquent or rococo
DDown 46:	Word for pliant osiers woven into creels, hampers, panniers or pottles, thus basketwork of any kind
DDown 47:	Linnaeus’s “needling, stinging” genus appointed to nettles
DDown 48:	“Marks” to be remembered, whether penned, played or sung
DDown 49:	A spiral shape or form, as observed in a trail of ivy or in the “twisted ladder of life” called DNA
DDown 52:	Mulberry’s pear-shaped cousins with leaves traditionally used to censor or conceal nudity in art

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