ACROSS
1. Keep eggs warm prior to hatching (8) 5. Making a hybrid (8) 11. Of the thigh (7) 12. Popular breed of cattle imported to South Africa from the US in the 1950s (7) 13. Descriptive of soil with a natural clay and sand mixture, including animal and vegetable 14. Brought up; fostered (6) 15. More needy (6) 16. Of produce, not yet frozen or stale (5) 19. Of a service, scrapped (4) 23. A plant, Beta vulgaris, with a red or white succulent root (4) 24. Regain health (7) 25. Capital of Egypt (5) 26. Open space among trees (5) 28. Region that includes Australasia and the south-west Pacific islands (7) 30. Impervious earth in fine particles (4) 32. Cereal substance obtained from palm pith (4) 35. Ancient woody plant that produces cones but no flowers, and resembles a palm (5) 38. Ensnare (6) 39. Came into forcible contact with (6) 40. Inundated (5) 42. Equipment, usually attached to a tractor, used to apply liquids to crops (7) 43. Towards the source of a flow of water (7) 44. A form of glucose (8) 45. Thin and bony (8)
