Theme: Paranormal Pastimes
by Ken Greatorex
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CLUES ACROSS:
2. to measure depth; to fully understand or experience something; to make something vertical [5]
5. Exactly suitable, appropriate [3]
10. Portuguese “river” [3]
11. Astromancers [11]
14. Geology: very large interval of time; two or more eras. Astronomy: One billion years. [3]
15. Short fuzzy ends of fibres on fabric surface (e.g. billiard table) [3]
16. and 4 Down. Fortune teller’s visual aid (Two words, [7], [4])
19: Device using physical manipulation by a small group of people to supernaturally answer questions, give messages, etc. [5]
20. British Parliamentary equivalent to “yea” in U.S. Congress. [3]
22. Firmness of character; indomitable spirit [4]
25. Perceiving all things [10]
27. Study of numbers, e.g. birth dates, and their supposed influence on human affairs [10]
29. Company that offers internet access for a periodic fee (abb) [3]
30. Windlass [7]
32. One who practices thought transference [8]
34. A soft creamy white cheese [4]
35. Alternatively [2]
38. Poem [3]
40. Metal-bearing rock samples that can be commercially mined [4]
43. One who is credited with highly developed skills in a given field [5]
44. Sixteenth Century French apothecary and reputed seer [11]
48. Argot, patois, vernacular [5]
50. Starlike, celestial [6]
51. Negatives [3]
52. Large, anthropoid ape of Borneo and Sumatra: [9]
54. Having many nodes or nodelike swellings; gnarled [7]
55. Cleave, bisect [3]
56. Division into two mutually exclusive, opposed or contradictory groups: [9]
CLUES DOWN:
1. Clairvoyance [12]
2. Flower, bouquet or nosegay [4]
3. Harmony, oneness [5]
4. See 16 Across
5. Consumed [3]
6. Offspring [7]
7. Imperial unit of mass [3]
8. Astrological forecast based on the position of the stars and planets at a specific time [9]
9. Contrite, remorseful [8]
12. British administration of India before 1947 [3]
13. Sternly disciplined and rigorously simple, frugal, austere. [7]
17. To fully satisfy [4]
18. Pertaining to aircraft [4]
21. and 42 down. Fortune teller, seer, (literally “one who speaks the truth”) (As two words, [5], [5])
23. Trick, stratagem, artifice [4]
24. Indicates or suggests without stating explicitly [7]
26. Chemical symbol of the element whose atomic number is 12 [2]
28. Small dinosaur; carnivore, possibly feathered, related to birds [6]
30. ” _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Over ” = “Passing Away” [8]
31. Gaseous mix comprising the atmosphere [3]
33. To be equal in a contest by virtue of having achieved the same score [4]
36. Alternative term for the practice of Divining or Dowsing water or minerals [8]
37. One who holds that there are no God or gods [7]
39. Method of divination used to locate water, metals, gem stones etc [7]
41. Bar extending horizontally between supports, as in a fence [4]
42. See 21 Down
43. To care for and feed livestock for payment [5]
47. Pack of 78 cards often used as an aid to prediction [5]
49. Disbelief, incredulity, misgiving [5]
52. Describing the set of whole numbers which do not have 2 as a factor [3]
53. Part of the circumference of a circle [3]
Solution here: http://skeptics.cafe/puzzles/february-2012-crossword-solution/