The Hindu : Miscellaneous / Crossword : The Hindu Crossword No. 8284

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Wednesday, May 04, 2005

Miscellaneous

Miscellaneous - Crossword

The Hindu Crossword No. 8284

Across

1 Fundamental reason to restrict the supply of drink (9)

5 An organisation placed in position (3,2)

8 Cotton material, nothing dad returned (6)

9 Grave-clothes for some sincere men traded here (8)

11 Two notes found in upholstered seat (4)

12 Being present at a particular time, to waltz perhaps (10)

14 With difficulty moved left to a miserable dwelling (5)

15 Group of three related works, a record in an attempt (7)

16 Simenon's crime buster (7)

17 Male pre-eminent in robbery (5)

19 Clue: drama's twisted, not at all understandable (5,2,3)

20 Check love, refuse consent (4)

22 Uncover the entrance to give unrestricted admission (4,4)

23 Doctor captured in old security law, a plant (6)

24 Sharp-eyed flier (5)

25 Alert Lord frustrated unreasonable request (4,5)

Down

1 Assume an attitude afresh for tranquility (6)

2 In the main, a sign of danger: there is more to it than meets the eye (3,2,3,7)

3 State that Columbus made capital of (4)

4 The latest possible time to give the Spanish contest 60 minutes around start of heats (8,4)

5 Check on amphetamine places a restriction on the rate of progress (5,5)

6 Terminus, one cannot continue further (3,3,2,3,4)

7 The art of making fired clay vessels is poetry re-created around time (7)

10 Fungal affection of member that sportsmen pay for (8,4)

13 Facility for walkers overlooking tracks perhaps (10)

16 Rodents enveloping heart of acrobat, possible disease-carrier (7)

18 Material for doctor with a confident manner, hard inside (6)

21 In South American city, love replaces a luxury car (4)

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