The Hindu : The Hindu Crossword No. 2524

Online edition of India's National Newspaper
Sunday, Sep 28, 2003

Miscellaneous

Miscellaneous - Crossword

The Hindu Crossword No. 2524

Across

1 Girl runs across friend from her old school (4,5)

6 Organised tour involves heading for rural market town (5)

9 Book set aside (7)

10 Awful moaners, rowing types (7)

11 Coral reef in the form of a ring (5)

12 One may produce a rattling sound trapped on Scottish island (5,4)

13,17 What the Daily Mail might say if asked to drop their Fred Basset strip? (6,4,2,3,3,3,3)

20 Drives to club and does weight training (5,4)

22 Clue must be broadcast, it's said (5)

23 A secretary may have one, and a poet possibly (7)

24 Ace follows six (with diamonds cut after a shuffle) in this type of bridge (7)

25 Novelists's name in bold (5)

26 Speaks about a young son and daughter in musical (5,4)

Down

1 A general overseas (6)

2 Married a Glaswegian with charm? (6)

3 Excited him, holy proposal promoting ethics (5,10)

4 Much-valued stamp kept in safe? Just the opposite (9)

5 Wine Jar I smashed containing drop of Orvieto (5)

6 One inside league ground in Pennsylvania (5,4,6)

7 For the better off at college bazaar? (8)

8 Decorative object, star, badly torn at edges (8)

14 Roman-fleuve from French writer involved love (4,5)

15 If absolutely necessary, one has to draw off a small measure (2,1,5)

16 US lorry driver mad at meters (8)

18 Craze — one involving the Spanish and caviar (6)

19 Briefly express US standing (6)

21 Travels free over El Salvador (5)

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