The Hindu : Miscellaneous / Crossword : The Hindu Crossword No. 8260

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Wednesday, Apr 06, 2005

Miscellaneous

Miscellaneous - Crossword

The Hindu Crossword No. 8260

Across

1 What is recommended for restful retirement — livestock census? (8,5)

10 Of necessity, requires mould (5,4)

11 Vessel brings honour in river on return trip (5)

12 Chair's hammer yielded a bit of lead (5)

13 Egyptian queen was free in it, travelling with tempo (9)

14 Woollen clothes for a skinny chap in the Theosophical Society (6)

16 Distinction shown by a Conservative girl (5)

19 Small market that is fashionable (5)

20 Such action cannot be voluntary (6)

25 Unshaved growth has necessarily to be a source of pain, absorbing Oxygen (9)

26 The toast of Moscow (5)

27 Deposits found when the girl got in (5)

28 Parliamentary Commissioner gets a thousand little flowers in a Middle Eastern state (9)

29 Accommodation on train for trainer not on the qui vive? (8,5)

Down

2 General description concerning a scene (8)

3 Part of the mien as also the nose (5)

4 Lizard from Antigua, wild, losing front of tail (6)

5 Oversize page at the entrance, female, advanced in years (8)

6 In poetry she spells out magic words (3,6)

7 Clue: ID is changed for geometrician (6)

8 Man on board in the dark, reportedly (6)

9 Sober way to give assistance (5)

15 Half a cup of coffee (9)

17 British officer with another one gets vegetable (8)

18 Member of college is of purely theoretical interest (8)

21 Kashmiri not available for a protest in India (6)

22 Slanderous attack in manuscript upset listener (5)

23 Measure of a President followed by the Spanish (6)

24 It is part of the garden, a listening device for a bloodsucker (6)

26 Electronic device to look at love (5)

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