Crossword #1194
Across
1 Gist or essence
5 Actress ___ Peeples
8 ___ ___ speak : familiarly meaning that...? (2,2)
12 Halls, theatres
13 Measure of length or twelfth letter of
alphabet?
14 Disturbance
15 On the ___ : improving in health or
condition?
16 Great merriment
18 "Gangnam Style" rapper
19 Nice surprise
20 Courtney ___ : Friends star
21 You too in Latin (2,2)
23 Resin
25 Marks; blemishes
27 Able to be dissolved
31 Indian wrestling great ___ Singh 32 Two-year old sheep
33 Author Hubbard (1,3)
34 Perspicacity
36 Corpulent, porter
37 Pedal digit
38 Secular; a layman
39 Psychedelic drug
42 Fundamental
44 Young bear
47 Pre-dinner drink
49 Skin hole
50 ___ La Douce : famous comedy movie
filmed in Paris cafes etc.
51 Undergo decomposition
52 Bone of human forearm
53 Colouring agents
54 Abstract being - "sen" anagram? 55 Itemize or catalogue
Down
1 Splendour; splendid display
2 Ancient Roman days
3 Decade (3,5)
4 Did possess
5 First prime minister of India
6 ____ Natase : Rumanian tennis star of days gone by?
7 Very eager or expectant (3,4) 8 Russian abbreviation, once
9 Of the ear
10 Partisan commander of erstwhile Yugoslavia 11 African antelope
17 Ex-Delhi speedster Wassan
19 Time To Stn.
22 Personal characteristic
24 Many (prefix)
25 Star Wars, initially
26 Is able
27 To put in place
28 Vegetable with green flower heads 29 Bud's movie partner
30 Tolkien's tree like creature 32 Playhouse
35 Mongolian desert
36 Pouchlike structure
38 Raises or elevates
39 ___ a bet : deposited as a wager? 40 Agile; lively
41 Greek commune
43 The city of Jerusalem
45 Big vases
46 ___ the opponent : be victorious?
48 ___ and Garba : folk dances from Gujarat?
49 Monetary unit of Afghanistan