The Hindu : The Hindu Crossword 7929

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Friday, Mar 12, 2004

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Miscellaneous - Crossword

The Hindu Crossword 7929

Across

1 E. Elgar variation — what a treat (6)

4 Girl sat on a mat shattered by the mark of infamy (8)

10 Make up instruction for the music writer (7)

11 They are dying, at first, to sit about in fitful sun (7)

12 To follow a pattern one has to go off Norma (4)

13 He is a transactor of business for a criminal (10)

16 Stroked with a whip and led around a tree (6)

17 It's incorrect to send me one who ill-treats (7)

20 Decrees issued to invest with ministerial functions (7)

21 A teetotaller given class quarter to acclimatise (6)

24 Sights sometimes better seen in pairs (10)

25 Compensation paid for making profit! (4)

27 Cover Stanley put on a revolving cylinder (7)

29 A church sent ten for reformation to free faults by punishing (7)

30 Take out beyond one's credit (8)

31 Dog's house (6)

Down

1 Not long ago, one had to rely on acceptance of a coin (8)

2 Plucky stand by at the animal enclosure (4,7)

3 A tool used to plunder (4)

5 Ten of the French left have made offer for acceptance of payment (8)

6 Sponsors who may be worshipped by their children (10)

7 A boat for a fool (3)

8 Tell positively as one needs to be certain (6)

14 Full marks for being more than one over the eight (3,3,2,3)

15 Created havoc, as the Hindu deity said (10)

18 The biggest twister to have a crush on one? (8)

19 Guard dispatched on new line (8)

22 He has to work out a problem with spirit (6)

23 Permit church to reform a lewd person (5)

26 Open to view the addition of a medal to the English (4)

28 A welcome prize (3)

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