The Hindu : The Hindu Crossword 7883

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Monday, Jan 19, 2004

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Miscellaneous - Crossword

The Hindu Crossword 7883

Across

1 Give support to a conjecture but criticise with hindsight (6-5)

9 Skilled worker in painting is a Pole (7)

10 Tumour on nerve-tissue may mean our undoing (7)

11 Stupid mistake by old South African concealing name (5)

12 Conspicuous courage needed to put everything in a support for a crane (9)

13 Flower whose whiteness signifies perfection (4)

15 Cherub, American, gets a bell (7)

19 Medicine container that may go to one's head (7)

20 Provide assistance to the man with a record (4)

24 Mom's clean bowled by one living in close association with another, though not dependent on it (9)

25 Give audible expression, say (5)

27 Use up clothing unfit to be put on at home? (7)

28 For PE, I must work up motivation (7)

29 What do customs inspectors look for in baggage? A lying character from A Midsummer Night's Dream (5,6)

Down

1 Glossy material with bad stain (5)

2 Throw out or upset statesman (6)

3 No person accepts a grand in a period of immaturity (6)

4 Group to light on the world of organised crime (8)

5 Well-versed in the three R's (8)

6 Quick temper is, to us, fresh trouble (5,4)

7 Rod with gong used by weightlifters (7)

8 Sylvan deity, devotee of Bacchus (5)

14 In a mo, I felt it somehow, the recurring theme in the music (9)

16 Wood hyacinth depressed ringer (8)

17 Jam — use it sparingly (8)

18 Weigh down with iron after operation (7)

21 What a journalist looks for, some ice cream? (5)

22 One lacking pigmentation in the skin seen through special binoculars (6)

23 It gives elevation to one who preaches (6)

26 Cat carrying note, a symbolic object (5)

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