The Hindu : Miscellaneous / Crossword : The Hindu Crossword No. 8204

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Monday, Jan 31, 2005

Miscellaneous

Miscellaneous - Crossword

The Hindu Crossword No. 8204

Across

1 Call a note off suddenly (3,2,4)

5 Burn Dutch vegetable (5)

8 Tear a fine fabric, tear to bits (8)

9 First a generation calculator? (6)

11 Royal Engineers leave income at scene of action (5)

12 Settler coins role afresh (9)

13 Swimmer in the red staggered (6)

14 Very skilful teacher on extremes of litany (8)

16 Vegetable to put a lid on rock music (8)

18 Grand, most important circus (3,3)

22 Story of a short arrival in Natal (9)

23 Jumbo tooth (5)

24 No sir, nothing is upset by prayer (6)

25 Dish that imparts a freshness (8)

26 Strength, possibly (5)

27 Nothing could be more boring (9)

Down

1 Finished with a Latin admirer (3,4)

2 Gaps in a nuclear fallout? Right away (7)

3 Jerome K. Jerome's sailing trio (5, 3, 2, 1, 4)

4 It may portend the sack to the employee (6)

5 Political head of department may incite tribesman to revolt (7,8)

6 A drug taker swallowing a small volume is one who makes a charge (7)

7 Ruin the French system of weights (7)

10 Miserable attempt to conceal animal cry (5)

15 Length of a forearm (5)

16 Go along! Study class (7)

17 Standard, royal nightmare for many a motorist (7)

19 "My only love sprung from my only hate! Too early seen unknown, and known — — !" (Romeo and Juliet) (3,4)

20 Try a dip afresh for a financially promising situation (3,4)

21 Iron man's woman (6)

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