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Wednesday, Jul 21, 2004

Miscellaneous

Miscellaneous - Crossword

The Hindu Crossword 8041

Across

1 Vegetable from a spa cooked with sugar (9)

5 Traditional narratives, somewhat crummy things (5)

8 Criticise and stop the vehicle (4,2)

9 Current courses that could be printed (8)

11 Persuade the firm with a tool (4)

12 Cloner told off and restrained (10)

14 Choose a representative (5)

15 Satan is cruel, if stirred (7)

16 Girl's hard piece of cloth, one to get vessels dry (7)

17 One living abroad, formerly an Irishman (5)

19 Call the expert circus director (10)

20 Cure that contemptible chap, I say! (4)

22 Mineral from German field, not quite scanty (8)

23 Fail to remember to shape a kind of square (6)

24 Start a computer session (3,2)

25 Nut, as I chop it, crumbles (9)

Down

1 Scalp a camel and find wool inside (6)

2 Yank one's support to make him believe something that is not true (4,1,7,3)

3 The way to lose tail in utter defeat (4)

4 In them one does not wear a coat (12)

5 Item of lab equipment, a kind of oven with range (10)

6 What a motion of confidence could be is startling for the unsteady (5,2,8)

7 Member of a group privy to its secrets (7)

10 Collector's item that gets mail going (7,5)

13 Fictional counsellor, a person Mary unmasked (5,5)

16 Terrible daughter, very angry (7)

18 Helplessly drunk, breaking bottomless bottle, getting nothing (6)

21 Soft drink to take care of the French (4)

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