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CLUES ACROSS:
1. Verging on impropriety; suggestive of indecency or doubtful morality [6]
4. Displaying good taste or judgment [10]
7. One of Tolkein’s tree-shepherds [3]
8. To emphasise text by applying an alternative variety of the same font [9]
10. Modern reconstruction of the old Hebrew unutterable name of God [6]
11. Scottish understanding [3]
13. Scottish kind [3]
14. Breathing apparatus [4]
16. Blue Southern tributary? [5]
17. Scottish verdict [8]
19. Fundamental unit of information with value expressible as 0 or 1 [3]
21. Technical term for “Without Sex” (as in reproduction) [6]
22. Monumental tall four-sided monolith [7]
24. Acquire [3]
26. H.G. Well’s future surface-dwellers [4]
28. Disbarred medico who fraudulently linked MMR vaccine to autism [9]
29. Joan Sutherland, for example [4]
31. Nipple [4]
32. Spanish for God [4]
34. Domineering woman; Vulgate Bible’s word for “woman” in Genesis [6]
36. Meat jelly [5]
37. The Third Power [4]
39. Devious stratagems; frustrating tactics [5]
43. Subject under discussion [5]
46. Events that never happened remembered as factual [13]
48. Scolding horse? [3]
50. Roman Catholic (abb) [2]
51. Attempt [3]
52. The Self [3]
53. Man with three balls? [10]
54. Printer’s measure [2]
CLUES DOWN:
1. Japanese Buddhist Palm Healing [5]
2. and 4 down: Watchmaker-analogy Creationism (Two words: [11], [6])
3. Emitted a strong foul odour [5]
4. See 2 Down
5. Field of Study including Bigfoot, Yeti, The Loch Ness Monster, The Bunyip etc [13]
6. Needlessly novel [10]
9. Secret elite organisation that received the Dan Brown treatment [10]
12. Dr Stephen Barrett’s alternative medicine watchdog website [10]
15. One of a sisterhood [3]
16. Exist [2]
18. Psychological phenomena in which random images or sounds are perceived as significant (e.g The Face on Mars) [10]
19. Flexible container [3]
20. Tastelessness or vulgarity, often used to describe collectible items [3]
23. Stated intentions to take tricks in card games [4]
25. and 42 Down: I feel I’ve given this clue before! (Two words: [4], [2])
27. Garland of flowers [3]
28. (Physics) Uniformly advancing disturbance in which the parts moved undergo a double oscillation [4]
30. To establish behaviour patterns in a young animal through association with a parent or other role model [7]
33. Formed by freezing dripping water [6]
35. Unspecialising medico (abb) [2]
38. Swindle in which unsuspecting people are cheated; confidence game [5]
40. Long-legged straight-billed wading bird [5]
41. Stringed instrument [4]
42. See 25 Down
44. One time only [4]
45. Watchful oversight; charge or supervision: [4]
47. Oily, viscous material, consisting mainly of hydrocarbons [3]
49. Athletic facility as commonly abbreviated [3]