Anyway. I finally finished it today, nearly a year after I first started, and sent it to Steven (who I'm not sure ever really expected to see it) and I thought I'd put it here too.
ACROSS
1. Mantra starts and ends
softly to create a show of splendour (4)
5. Stephen's favourite way
to cook eggs (3)
8. Get back, old boy;
South Africa return is punishment for poor behaviour in public (4)
12. Novello on the piano?
Why not! (4)
13. Band lost in the
stars? It's a sign (3)
14. Glaswegian perhaps?
Beds are unmade (4)
15. Bad worker kisses
nothing to form a famous alliance (4)
16. Initially show
surprise when cat becomes confused (3)
17. Moving around rings,
tree loses romance (4)
18. Don't catch this if
you're in a rush to hear what Dylan sings (4,5)
21. Bob's friend? She's a
queen! (3)
22. Set down an old
fashioned way of returning a phone call (4)
23. Honest love for a
writer (4)
25. Norton and Milliband
could be magazine bosses (3)
28. More than one of these
spells trouble for Caesar at a cetain time of year (3)
29. This fruit will make
him leave (5)
31. A lizard which cheers
the girl on (6)
33. Bond's boss,
fashionable with a broken leg, to chat to everyone at the party
34. After a turn in
Eastenders, you'll be waiting for him all night (5)
35. Forbid the airline to
go north (3)
36. I can see the comic
sailor's lost his dad (3)
37. Travel on 18, for
example
38. The measure of this
space is that it's a music venue with no point (4)
40. Abba's music always
spells trouble
41. If Dan goes by
backwards, for example, the Princess Bride's rats could cause peril
(9)
46. Chooses to put
spinning toys into more of a spin (4)
48.
Fish missing a note can still make a type of music (3)
49.
Eastern Sea is choppy but will soothe pain (4)
50.
Sounds like wig-maker will get the lot (4)
51.
No point in being crooked, I'll wager (3)
52. Cleaner loses article,
holds up plant (4)
53.
Single performance starts on cello (4)
54.
Substance in the ground provides options, we hear (3)
55.
It will wear out after too much driving (4)
DOWN
1.To
cut back could mean there's just enough money for these (4)
2.
Egg needs to learn to be egg shaped 3)
3.
These services will break a thousand, too (4)
4.
When played backwards, record contains an argument for roaming
stealthily (5)
5.
About a letter, two old ladies are in a state (7)
6.
About that bad cheese? We covered it (6)
7.
At first you only get it for a famous bear (4)
8.Raise
a question as potassium is added (3)
9.
At the top, she can seek retribution and take what she needs from
what's left
10.
Ron Bigly turns monotonously (8)
11.In
two ticks I'll be near the ear (4)
19.Theodore, by
including an example of poor grammar, is spoiled (7)
20.
Mine and one other on the shortlist for an award (7)
24
To criticise a cooking implement (3)
25
This example's good for Easter (3)
26
management style prefered by burgulars (4,4)
27 every
other stay drips it, witch enjoys pain (8)
30
Overall, equipment efficiency put first (3)
32
Oxford professor is up, but off for some sleep (3)
33
Spoil the entrance to a sea-side resort (7)
35
River some say responsible for financial ruin (6)
39
Lazy policeman could do with one of these (1, 4)
40
In London, sounds like a farmer will fashion his old fashioned tool
from cloth (4)
42
A punishment you've seen before, in which he was as bold as brass (4)
43
could describe a breakfast cereral which starts on top, we hear (4)
44
When confused I'm sure I'm often the cause computer errors (4)
45
Appear to be a Massai dagger, by the sound of it (4)
47
Initially spent in the Seychelles
*Well, maybe that's not quite the only reason. Writing this crossword isn't the only thing I've spent the last year doing, obviously. I also ran a marathon, went to Australia (twice), and left my part-time job, among other things, but somehow didn't manage to blog about any of it. I plan to fix this.
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