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Thursday, Dec 16, 2004

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Miscellaneous - Crossword

The Hindu Crossword 8166

Across

1 A Scotsman, a sailor and an engineer: It's like a Hitchcock film! (7)

5 Maintain one's presence in a short moment (6)

9 Problems caused by horse aboard ship (5)

10 This may put one in bed in a ward (3-6)

11 Bad in a manner of speaking (3,4)

12 Having a quality that a thief would like? (7)

13 Gets a listener with partners (5)

14 I heard request for an attractive quality to the viewer (3,6)

16 All I found in: no-longer-fashionable straw mattress (9)

19 Is on the way to see the state of course (5)

21 Thrown out from the plane, perhaps (7)

23 Intend to convey the French is the most inferior in quality (7)

24 What is the accomplishment? Capital punishment! (9)

25 Town in Karnataka for all to see at first (5)

26 What a fire accident may leave in heaps (6)

27 Cake eaten during Christmas time (4,3)

Down

1 Hesitant, timid presenter is misunderstood (14)

2 Deed granted to a map-maker? (7)

3 Confers when bows set crookedly (7)

4 Miscreants resolved shiftily that I be included (9)

5 Narrows our sailors allowed (5)

6 Say boldly that Pa pukes all over the place (5,2)

7 What you would like the clue to be? (7)

8 When it occurs perhaps the whole sky becomes bright (5,9)

15 Envy me, one winning betting proposition is there! (4,5)

17 Ambassadors spread glee, Sir (7)

18 Enter uninvited (7)

19 Trembling, guard goes to the boy step by step (7)

20 Not uniform in saline quality (7)

22 Where any amount of milching may be done (5)

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