The Hindu : Miscellaneous / Crossword : The Hindu Crossword No. 8067

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Friday, Aug 20, 2004

Miscellaneous

Miscellaneous - Crossword

The Hindu Crossword No. 8067

Across

1 A companion for the ball (7,7)

8 Sailors lie back to come down by rope (6)

9 Sparkling wine for those who chew? (8)

11 GOI relies on becoming extremely pious (9)

12 A natural gift of a widow erratically exhibited here (5)

13 Big shot Indian fighter embraced by old actress West (7)

15 Awareness of being one of the most gifted can bring a smile: it is bad (7)

17 Wrinkles on the face of a very rich man, reportedly (7)

19 Flourish, flower! (7)

21 German composer covered time in assemblage (5)

23 "Congest" — a cover word with a difference (9)

25 Lose balance, boy and you will have a shortfall in reaching the target (8)

26 Plant for black diamonds, say, American (6)

27 Crane's noise can be corrected in preliminary inspection (14)

Down

1 Indian town included in faint sketch (7)

2 Such a voice can produce a twang (5)

3 One girl about to chant "Mica" (9)

4 Have ice broken and bring to a successful conclusion (7)

5 In the result a meddler is made submissive (5)

6 A weed lies tangled around southern flowering plant (9)

7 A marsh reclaimed for a sage's abode (6)

10 Contend with company exercise (4)

14 Famous London conflagration of 1666 (5,4)

16 European military decoration made press angry (4,5)

17 Painter like Picasso was a young creature first (6)

18 The weapon for forcing a union (7)

19 Source of sugar is reportedly exhausted (4)

20 One way, in a manner of acting, for the fashionable dressmaker (7)

22 Pachyderm in courtship possibly (5)

24 Canoe designed for large body of water (5)

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