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Tuesday, Dec 28, 2004

Miscellaneous

Miscellaneous - Crossword

The Hindu Crossword 8176

Across

1 Alluring substitution of leader by Conservative becomes noisy (9)

5 Loud Muse, mad, blows a fuse (5)

8 After a bit of time, French composer is to go on a journey (6)

9 Benchmarks fashioned by Rita and Eric (8)

11 Innkeeper, new around the south (4)

12 Old storm trooper, British, confesses to murder around river (5,5)

14 Transparent material, maybe, for a good girl (5)

15 Part of limb, leg, dislocated on coarse gravel (7)

16 "Bullfighter" — a drama to be rewritten (7)

17 Relating to birth in Africa (5)

19 Fix, with elegance, a source of digital lustre (4,6)

20 Peak of achievement of fighter pilot around center of Denmark (4)

22 Love poem composed by a grim lad (8)

23 Vitality of a born cat (snow leopard) (6)

24 Sound result of a plucked string (5)

25 Famous battleground of W.W.II with a name that is all new (2,7)

Down

1 Popular girl has caught a bit of a cold (6)

2 Forster work that turned Asia against dope (1,7,2,5)

3 British order youth leader to do as told (4)

4 Bad temper shown by woman when she is teased about RSS (12)

5 Believers in things having magical power get singular, shiftiest treatment (10)

6 Permit for a union but not really for a match with excessive freedom (8,7)

7 Frighten a celebrity, then left off (7)

10 Official announcement in the papers regarding rent agreement (5,7)

13 Workers call about quiet gymnastic feat (10)

16 Misuse ammunition (ignoring last three) and effect a release from slavery (7)

18 Some deride meaninglessly to lower the dignity (6)

21 A bit of music written up by a physician (4)

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