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Saturday, 12th April 2025

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 11:	Buttercup-like blooms brightening winter’s demise with illimitable golden galaxies, thus delighted in by Wordsworth and, like their etymological namesakes the swallows, regarded as “spring messengers”
AAcross 12:	Avocado-, canola-, flax-, linseed-, olive-, poppy- or vegetable-derived nonpolar substance immiscible with water, whose numerous applications include colour blending, cookery and cricket bat preservation
AAcross 13:	Word, in reference to its seed of origin, for an Allington, Cox’s orange, Newtown, Ribston, Sturmer or other example of a good apple; thus, any delightful thing, excellent person, good sort or all-round bonne pomme
AAcross 14:	Mad in March and moongazing in mystical motifs, this fast-running form-dwelling leveret is significant in Celtic, Christian and pagan beliefs
AAcross 15:	Celestial compass and “anchor” Polaris, which for many centuries served as a guiding luminary for explorers, sailors and travellers	NORTH STAR
AAcross 16:	A cryptic churn-owl, dorhawk, fern-owl, goatsucker, nighthawk, puckeridge, wheeler or whippoorwill whose name in question reflects its nocturnal activity or twilight churr
AAcross 17:	Word for stifling confines, limits or restrictions, yet conversely meaning energetic leaps or springs forth
AAcross 18:	A pouch for paraphernalia, pillage, plunder, potatoes; or, being served with one’s proverbial papers
AAcross 20:	Ornamental often-collectable crystal, opalescent, peach-blow, silver or Victorian glass vessels, either for freshly cut damasks, floribundas and hybrid teas or for dried potpourris
AAcross 22:	Bricklayer’s cement held on a square board/hawk to which a scholar’s tasselled college cap is likened
AAcross 25:	Whether a knight’s crusade for the Grail, a pilgrim’s progress to a holy place, a philosopher’s pursuit of truth, a hound’s hunt for game or a computer’s scan for data, it is a word, from “ask, seek”, for a searching journey
AAcross 26:	Coquilles, queenies or pectens whose fan-shaped shells are reflected in wavy-edged or fluted dishes, fabric, knitting or lace
AAcross 27:	A somewhat thick-bodied or stocky cyprinid fish from whose name a word for plump is perhaps derived
AAcross 29:	A tall tapering structure, whether architectural, botanical or conchal
AAcross 30:	India’s “pocket-sized paradise” where beaches meet a Portuguese past and the local liquor, feni, offers a coco- or cashew apple-charged blast
AAcross 31:	A bean, haricot, lentil, pea or other pulse whose name, rooted in “to gather”, reflects the historical practice of garnering and hand-picking these valuable food sources
AAcross 33:	Word for pulchritude that traces its roots to the Latin “bellus”, yet its meaning extends far beyond simple prettiness, handsomeness or charm
AAcross 34:	A small word yet signifying mighty ideas, including great, large, vast, whopping and, archaically, with child
AAcross 36:	One of a whorl of leafy green shields forming a bud’s protective calyx
AAcross 37:	Paralinguistic sounds or click consonants used as a subtle but effective way to express disapproval or annoyance without using words
AAcross 38:	A simple yet iconic French bread whose root, “walking stick”, is most apt, for its stick-like shape makes it easy to carry when walking
AAcross 41:	A word with meanings swirling from cocktail shaker, kitchen blender and mocktail muddler to pet food kibble, socialiser and troublemaker
AAcross 42:	Milfoil – a legendary healing herb of Achilles, Achillea millefolium
AAcross 44:	Traditional broderie anglaise- or hardanger-like “blanc-sur-blanc” embroidery, characteristically crafted, sewn or wrought in neutral-coloured thread on a plain linen ground	WHITEWORK
AAcross 46:	Celestial, ocular or royal spheres
AAcross 48:	Sound of hail, rain or tiny feet
AAcross 51:	From newspapers, rags, stones and twigs to various other everyday old figs, “poor” in Italian arte	POVERA
AAcross 52:	A hack, pen-pusher, potboiler or other cacographer of careless scrawl
AAcross 54:	Word, from “grow”, for a band, company, complement, gang, squad, team or other group of people brought together for a common purpose
AAcross 55:	Hinduism’s elephant-headed hibiscus-red pot-bellied rat-riding “remover of obstacles” with a broken tusk, whose favoured sweet offerings are “small parts of bliss” called modaks
AAcross 56:	Word for a head’s assent or its sleepy descent; or, a daffodowndilly or daisy’s imagined consent
AAcross 57:	An unusual word, from the Greek for “breakfast, lunch” plus “study”, for the art or science of good eating and entire experience of dining
DDown 1:	Italian word for “frozen”, thus highlighting the essential nature of a Florentine-style ice cream pudding
DDown 2:	Whether eaten by a dormouse, squirrel or woodpecker in the wild or by a human in chocolate spread or a gold foil-wrapped Ferrero praline ball, it is a cob, filbert or noisette
DDown 3:	Greek youth whose handsomeness transferred to a vivid blue butterfly
DDown 4:	Real or figurative noose-like traps
DDown 5:	A lonely heart’s shorthand way of expressing their desire for someone who can bring amusement, joy and laughter into a relationship	G S O H
DDown 6:	Inventor of the modern pencil and also an eponymous crayon for drawing and sketching; or, a French récit
DDown 7:	From Tuscan tongue to Jacobean court, a lexical pioneer, Montaigne’s voice and a royal tutor whose Worlde of Wordes yielded a Queen’s new vocabulary
DDown 8:	A mayfly or a class of short-lived paper-based collectable items whose etymological root, “lasting only a day”, highlights their transient nature
DDown 9:	A fundamental constant of nature and physics defined by the vacuum propagation rate of electromagnetic radiation, exactly 299,792,458 metres per second	SPEED OF LIGHT
DDown 10:	Term, evocative of a billion failures, for a unit of computing rate equal to one thousand million floating-point operations per second
DDown 19:	A thin fabric, pancake, rubber or tissue paper whose name, from Latin to Old French to English, highlights their shared characteristic of a crinkled, curled, frizzled or wrinkled texture
DDown 21:	A wild untamed hart or bachelor
DDown 23:	Earthy pigment with a rich history and, despite its etymological foundation “yellow”, a range of warm natural colours from gold, mustard and saffron to deep orange, red or brown
DDown 24:	Old word for vibrant red that transformed into one for corroded or oxidised; or, stiff from age/disuse, like a ferruginous bucket, aka old banger
DDown 25:	From legal nuance to pun or paronomasia, today’s meaning of the word ranges from carp and cavil triflingly to nit-pick to the point of absurdity
DDown 26:	Word for a clutch of things including a biting turtle, an Irish baby, a paper banger, a party cracker, a photographer, a redfish or a whiplash attachment
DDown 28:	French word, rooted in “bushes, clumps of trees” and blossoming or stemming from “posies, corsages”, for female florists, flower girls or flower sellers; or, garnishing garlands or jardinières of fresh vegetables
DDown 31:	Informal word for a hard candy or water ice on a stick; or, an equally sweet enjoyable thing called money
DDown 32:	Word that started as a mutter or a grunt and grew into a meaningful saying or proverbial pithy maxim
DDown 35:	Martin Chuzzlewit nurse so famously associated with her unwieldy cumbersome umbrella that her name entered the English language as a slang term for a bulky brolly
DDown 36:	From “sice”, a word that relates Brownies, cricket, a pack of beer and around half a dozen other things
DDown 39:	Word, from the Greek for “without colour”, for a lens engineered to minimise the rainbow- like effect of optical aberration
DDown 40:	Riverside trails or canal walkers’ ways, originally ambled by barge-pulling horse boaters, from bays to greys
DDown 43:	Word, from “little net”, for a woman’s historical beaded embroidered but most importantly netted “indispensable” that was a precursor to the modern handbag
DDown 45:	Like the ascent of a phoenix, proving dough, a sea wave or a wall’s damp
DDown 47:	Velvety-leaved herb of smudge stick, potager or Paxo whose name, from “safe, save, secure”, reflects its ancient use as a healing plant and/or perceived medicinal properties
DDown 48:	A buccaneer of the high seas or of the information superhighway
DDown 49:	“Activity”, from sunlight’s photons to atoms’ split, a force that powers our world’s swift transit
DDown 50:	Word, from “step”, for a rung, upwards or downwards in dignity, progression, proficiency, quality, rank, size, value or anything else
DDown 53:	Word for a bird’s bill, a human’s nose, a squid’s mouthpart or a turtle’s jaw that is also long-standing public school slang for a master or teacher

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