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Saturday, 19th April 2025

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 9:	Name, shared with an anthology, book on blooms or botany, of a Jacobite heroine whose rescuing boatlift of Bonnie Prince Charlie after his defeat at Culloden is recounted in The Skye Boat Song
AAcross 10:	Word, from “disc, roller, trend, wheel”, for a steady bowl or roll along; a castor or small roller; a hoop; a spool of golden heraldic thread; the pinion of a lantern; or, a low rollaway bed
AAcross 11:	Sylvan ecosystems providing a literal forest of ecological and social benefits for animals, birds, bluebell-marvellers, campers, canopy-shelterers, nesters, pannage-eaters, tree-huggers, twitchers and vert-lovers alike
AAcross 13:	Word that refers to the degree to which a programme falls short; the action of going, passing or running beneath; or, the current below the surface, whether real or figurative
AAcross 14:	Deriving its name from the physician of the Olympian gods, a beautiful often pink heavenly scented “rose without a thorn” prominent in Chinese art, thus a popular motif in chinoiserie designs
AAcross 15:	Whether inebriating, impregnated with something, made by decoction or used in cookery for steeping or marinating, it is fluid
AAcross 16:	Cooking apple whose name, from “beef”, refers to its carpaccio-like deep-red colour; or, said cooker slowly dried and flattened into a cake
AAcross 17:	Place/chair where something is set, whether one’s familial country estate or one’s jodhpured derrière
AAcross 19:	Fragrant mix of essential oils with amber, balsam, conima, elemi, frankincense, mastic or myrrh “tears”, which captures the aromatic essence of a plant in a concentrated form
AAcross 21:	Gravy boat designed by a Scottish duke; the diamond pattern adapted from the tartan of said nobleman’s clan; or, a sock or sweater made of this
AAcross 23:	Word, in the context of an animal, body, chessboard, hill, military formation or rugby pitch, for a side
AAcross 24:	Fizzy firework- or gimcrack-like word for barbed or pronged leister- or trident-like harpoons for frogging or spearing the catch of the day
AAcross 25:	Word, related to “brown, dark, dun, misty, swarthy”, for the fading and often beautiful owl-light or gloaming that bridges the gap between day and nightfall
AAcross 28:	Word whose etymological journey arose or started with a falcon’s feather shake but moved to a broader term encompassing awakening or stirring up emotions; or, a bugle’s wake-up call
AAcross 29:	A fruitcake-topping kernel to which a bolt’s screwy companion is visually likened; or, an eccentric
AAcross 30:	A rivulet of running water, thus a drift of same-aged schoolchildren, flow of thought, river of data, surge of words, tide of people or trickle of money
AAcross 32:	Lapidarian or lithic bodies that ought not to be thrown by those living in glass abodes; or, cherry pips
AAcross 33:	Featherer’s glue of choice; or, the black mark of an old sea dog or jack
AAcross 35:	A sliver of cake, lemon or life
AAcross 36:	From “leader”, a mosque’s prayer guide, with a legendary example said to have fainted, swooned or “bayildi” from either delight or the cost of a flavourful dish of stuffed baked aubergines
AAcross 37:	One who is agreeable, artificially or naturally sweet, possibly unctuous, suave or slick and generally blends with other old fruits, like the blended thickie to which they are likened
AAcross 40:	Momentum’s arc, as in a golf club, mood, Newton’s cradle, pendulum, pugilist’s arm or suspended chair
AAcross 41:	Neighbourhood pubs; or, said community inns’ regulars, as opposed to their fleeting emmets, grockles, out-of-towners, tourists or visitors
AAcross 44:	Slang, perhaps combining words for “buzz” and “dasher”, for a truly large, lively, remarkable, striking, swift or well-run person or thing
AAcross 46:	A fount, hole, pool, reservoir, shaft or spring as a source of creativity, ink, inspiration or oil, but mainly water
AAcross 48:	Word for an act of applying force against gravity to raise or lift a jack-straw, spillikin or anything else	PICK-UP
AAcross 50:	Aromatic summer or winter pot herb whose name is similar to a word meaning appetising, delicious, flavoursome, gustful or tasty
AAcross 51:	Spanish farewell, goodbye, so long or toodle-pip that, from “to God”, is rooted in the idea of commending someone to God’s care
AAcross 53:	Verb whose journey from Latin to English has preserved its core meaning of agreement, concurrence, “falling together” and simultaneousness
AAcross 54:	Name of a Titanic-surviving suffragette, a children’s character imagined by Martha Finley, a beloved Downton Abbey housekeeper and a dairy food company’s mascot cow	ELSIE
AAcross 55:	French word, from “dressmaking, sewing”, for the stitchcraft dedicated to creating dernier cri high fashion; or, the made-to-measure garments and accessories duly fashioned
AAcross 56:	A tale, whether about a fairy or Jack-a-Nory, for which you must sit comfortably before it may begin
DDown 1:	Waspish syrphid whose manner of seemingly weightless aerial lingering results in the illusion of it floating
DDown 2:	A married woman, senior nurse or prison wardress, each linguistically linked to “mother” or “motherhood”
DDown 3:	People’s turns of work or sandpipers’ bouts of wading, e.g.
DDown 4:	Word, with a hint of Latin irony, for a short sharp sarcastic retort or gibe
DDown 5:	“Singing place” of Greek antiquity, now a cinema or picture palace
DDown 6:	Visionary plantswoman honoured with a fragrant pink highly regarded old English rose for her transformation of garden design into an art form	JEKYLL
DDown 7:	Migratory birds flocking in “gulps” and sharing their name with the rivals of Arthur Ransome’s Amazons
DDown 8:	French-style miniature posy of bay, chervil, parsley and thyme, used to impart subtle herbal flavours to stews and other dishes, often with wine	BOUQUET GARNI
DDown 9:	An anthophile, budgie breeder, pigeon enthusiast or other aficionado with arbitrary or capricious preference; or, one who imagines
DDown 12:	An appearance, film screening, performance, pointing out, setting forth or other evidencing or display
DDown 18:	Colloquialism, drawing on the established association of the first letter of the alphabet with excellence, for one’s top performance	&AMP;#039;A&AMP;#039; GAME
DDown 20:	The body’s made-to-measure derma suit, a bare necessity of life
DDown 22:	A word in the French lexicon of love, meaning besotted, captivated, enamoured, infatuated, smitten
DDown 23:	French word signifying a “whipped” pas or action of a ballerina’s leg
DDown 24:	A seemly try-on of a garment so that it suitably conforms, like a proverbial glove; or, a light bulb socket
DDown 26:	Initials on the cartons of milk, soya drink or other goods gifted with a long life by means of uber-high heat	U H T
DDown 27:	Adam-style villa and former abode of Dido Elizabeth Belle, William Murray and many other lives, but now where the Iveagh Bequest resides	KENWOOD HOUSE
DDown 30:	Word, from “tale” and related to a term for “form with letters”, for an enchanted phrase or magic formula
DDown 31:	Range cooker for the culinary upper crust, cream of the crop, big cheeses, giant enchiladas and top bananas
DDown 34:	A farrier’s file or a snail’s radula, named for its grating action
DDown 35:	Word, from the Germanic “climb, stair”, for a clapper, stepladder, squeeze-belly or tumbledown over or through a wall or hedge
DDown 38:	French word for the art or process of modelling, wax-working or, moreover, forensic casting of objects of interest in criminal investigations
DDown 39:	Word for an aphid’s sugary secretion found in mist-like roric droplets on plants; a mellow mellifluous musk melon; molasses-rich tobacco; or, ambrosia or anything delightfully sweet or pleasant
DDown 42:	A rooster’s matutinal boastful “doodle-doo” as a signal of aurora, dawn, daybreak or first light	COCK-CROW
DDown 43:	Word, related to “lavender”, for one’s clothes and linens for the wash; or, the place where one airs said washables, literally or figuratively
DDown 45:	Word, rooted in the Greek for “leader, overseer, ruler”, for a Byzantine governor, an ecclesiastical inspector, a historical Bulgarian church head, a metropolitan bishop, a patriarchal deputy or a legate
DDown 47:	A fastenable pendant for a portrait miniature or a necklace-charm for a keepsake that is more than just a piece of jewellery, but a memory vault or heartfelt container
DDown 48:	Term for an ordained minister who traditionally performs last rites, thus a mallet or club for a trout’s final act
DDown 49:	French chapelier who designed the eponymous chapeau claque, aka spring-loaded collapsible top hat
DDown 52:	A slow garden-dweller that seems simple but is actually a silver trail-making thousand-toothed stalk-eyed hermaphrodite gastropod that uses its slime to make “ropes” to rappel from high places

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