Complete Clue List
Across
3. Pesky insect or a crotch opening on pants/trousers
8. The front of a building OR a deceptive or misleading outward appearance
10. Female pilot
12. Reluctant to give details OR making a pretence of shyness to appear alluring
13. Kitchen device, flat, holds burners or hotplates
14. Repeated
15. Flying lizard (extinct)
16. A hat that is a truncated cone popular in Mediterranean Africa and Turkiye. Also a Moroccan city
17. Old or silver wire work formed into jewellery pieces
18. Stylishness with originality or an intrinsic capability to achieve something
22. Anderson (musician) or Baker-Finch (golfer)
23. Robyn Fenty, Barbadian pop singer. "What's My Name"
26. At a greater distance, used to compare distance relative to a fixed position
28. On the chunky side
30. Heavenly messenger
31. Large Texan city, centre of the Longhorn cattle trade (4,5)
35. What an Australian would call a large red or grey marsupial
36. Much ado or fuss or commotion over conflicting views
39. A play for theatre with suspense
40. Spanish gold (or the beginning of a mountain)
41. A nasty disease that causes severe joint pain in children. Unknown cause. Known by its initials
42. Slaughterhouse
43. Small sealed glass capsule containing a liquid or drug (alt.)
44. Abbreviated major American sporting entity
Down
1. Capital of the Central African Republic
2. Make a process work or improve
3. Tina, American actress and comedienne
4. Five dice game
5. Filament from which a vegetable tissue or textile is formed (British spelling)
6. "Milo and ____" or a brand of elevators
7. A small statue used as personal ornamentation
9. Mafia head of family
11. A small watercourse in the Orkney and Shetland isles
15. American term meaning to urinate
16. Archduke Ferdinand, heir to the Austrian-Hungary throne (Sounds Gallic rather than Teutonic)
17. A great distance away
19. A form of print, where original works of art can be printed and reproduced
20. Onomatopoeic sigh of contentment or realisation
21. Ecuadorian capital
24. Phrase meaning when necessary (2,4,2)
25. Witch
27. North American cheer of encouragement or approval, usually repeated
29. Melancholy
32. Fish eggs or a type of dear
33. Mexican dish containing spiced meat, steamed or baked in corn husks
34. Happening or beginning to happen (is bigger than 12 inches)
37. Greek sheep cheese
38. Shorter last day of the working week (is not cooked in oil)
39. Not very bright (light or otherwise)
41. Far East aircraft network. Flag carrier for its country. Hub at Narita. Known by its initials