The Hindu : The Hindu Crossword No. 2545

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Sunday, Feb 29, 2004

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Miscellaneous - Crossword

The Hindu Crossword No. 2545

Across

1 First to film bird of prey getting poultry (4)

3 Diplomat, American, so sad, drunk in

pub (10)

9 Supply a Baltic port (4)

10 Stage left - snake appears from piece of

equipment (10)

11 Awfully enraged after manual worker

makes a bomb (4,7)

15 US writer in digs, we hear (9)

17 Name of old boy, one in service (5)

18 Pole with money, grand from fraud (5)

19 Bearing of vicar, one going round the

Spanish church (9)

20 In meeting hall, the French elected

corporation's treasurer (11)

24 US state capital worker is in

agreement (10)

25 From this mount you might get stake

back (4)

26 Comfortable situation, one appreciated by

deliveryman? (4,6)

27 A widely held but false belief covered in a

series of letters from Jeremy Thorpe (4)

Down

1 Defensive structure put around ancient

city, advantageous in the long term (3,3,4)

2 Dire warning to a settlers' convoy (5,5)

4 What a bishop may have on in a joint (5)

5 Artist is full of dismay? Just the opposite

with this valuation (9)

6 Very exacting employer in club, propping

up bar, drinking drop of lager (5-6)

7 A couple of rooks — one was unable to

fly (4)

8 Seldom seen underdone (4)

12 Chap landing on bridge gets bravery

award (6,5)

13 A British nun, lady possibly securing first

of tricks in spades (10)

14 The nude ran out below (10)

16 Plant in European river duck avoided (10)

21 Spree, for example, writer fixed up (5)

22 Runs into one in Israeli seaport (4)

23 Ring North American albatross? (4)

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