The Hindu : The Hindu Crossword No. 7939

Online edition of India's National Newspaper
Wednesday, Mar 24, 2004

Miscellaneous

Miscellaneous - Crossword

The Hindu Crossword No. 7939

Across

1 Charge levied on per head basis, like what some colleges collect (10,3)

9 Theft, real NYC variety (7)

10 Locate a piece of land around the centre of equator (7)

11 Son, cruel fellow, accommodates royal lover (9)

12 Open to view in a Passover thing (5)

13 Imagine afresh one being dropped in mystery (6)

14 Support a revolutionary with lumbago (8)

17 Variable resistance to heart's irregularity (8)

19 Cairo's anagram for a mass of solidified lava (6)

23 Panorama evokes girl's thanks (5)

25 Not working as well as inaccurate but thoroughgoing (3-3-3)

26 Compunction shown in dealing with lucre's pull initially (7)

27 Synthetic fibre in a superb gallery (7)

28 Cracked pot's side burns Chinese delicacy (5,4,4)

Down

1 Bore of a gun (7)

2 Policies of political grouping delivered through telephone connections serving two or more (5,4)

3 The more funny proposition (7)

4 Plants included in an earthy message (6)

5 In India, BO's treated with glassy volcanic rock (8)

6 Part of a horse's leg with a tuft of hair (7)

7 Dodge a girl accepting notice (5)

8 Ruler's ceremonial staff (7)

15 Copy with fuss a kind of impure diamond (9)

16 Roses may be grafted for head of municipal corporation (8)

17 Modified a gripping tool (American variety) covered in a bright colour (7)

18 Keener swindler at cards (7)

20 Study the branch of a tribe, say: idea! (7)

21 Workers' residence (7)

22 Command to stand in a relaxed way (2,4)

24 Get clean to do an operation, maybe (5)

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