The Hindu : The Hindu Crossword No. 2549

Online edition of India's National Newspaper
Sunday, Mar 28, 2004

Miscellaneous

Miscellaneous - Crossword

The Hindu Crossword No. 2549

Across

1 Fit to eat from deli? Be prepared! (6)

4 Get along somehow in motorcycle trial (8)

10 No longer needed to go on and on about
backing exposed duke (9)

11 Excuse used by criminal I birched (5)

12 Beginning to treat crank (8,6)

14 Policeman, fellow I wanted in newlyformed-force (7)

16 A scandal right at the heart of
unfashionable period (7)

17 Animal, one in Brewer and dictionary,
always (3,4)

19 Type of sandwich to eat is `spread' (7)

21 There are pictures to be seen behind
closed doors in one (6,8)

24 Council's last to reduce rent (5)

25 Plastered notices round front of

orphanage, first in Milton Keynes? (9)

26 I, a setter, edited paper (8)

27 Key, for example, secreted in advance (6)

Down

1 Peers go out together in part of London (5,5)

2 At home, financial assistance is raised for an Asian country (5)

3 Harebrained, messing about in a cult (7)

5 Might Sweeney Todd have been caught
red-handed wielding one? (3-6, 5)

6 Opposed commander in street (7)

7 Excellent flatfish — a number spotted in it (9)

8 Extremely unpleasant in the village (4)

9 Warren is worried, shows concern about
head of really famous film studio (6,8)

13 Famous bracelet mislaid by editor (10)

15 Bird — cuckoo flies mostly by day to Far East (9)

18 Mount always best without blinkers? (7)

20 Woodland plant — one bearing exotic name (7)

22 Run sleazy bar bordering river (5)

23 Fool about on set (4)

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