ACROSS
1.ype of precipitation usually welcomed by crops (8) 5. Chinese breed of long-haired dog with curly tail (4-4) 11. Plant of the genus grown in the Far East for its restorative root (7) 12. The_White is a breed of pig introduced from the US in 1983 (7) 13. Graded cut of beef (5) 14. Gourd family plant whose fibrous dried fruit is used as a rough sponge (6) 15. What an angler does (6) 16. Soil (5) 19. Item of work (4) 23. The_Elephant National Park is near Gqeberha (4) 24. Make intelligible (7) 25. Savoury jelly used as a glaze or mould for fish or game (5) 26. Short pastoral poem (5) 28. Penned or corralled (7) 30. Bottle stopper made from the outer bark of a tree of the same name (4) 32. Goading tool on a horse-rider's heel (4) 35. Small succulent fruit (5) 38. Green crop compressed, fermented and stored for fodder (6) 39. Public place used for selling goods (6) 40. Variety or strain of an animal (5) 42. Powdered grain of any grass of the Avena genus (7) 43. Stock farmer of western North America (7) 44. Avoid by deft footwork (8) 45. Camel with two humps (8)
