The Hindu : Miscellaneous / Crossword : The Hindu Crossword No. 8422

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Friday, Oct 14, 2005

Miscellaneous

Miscellaneous - Crossword

The Hindu Crossword No. 8422

Across

1 Detergent to clean a spread wing: how curious (7,6)

10 Hot trapdoor designed to find a shrimp, say (9)

11 Consumed some meat ending fast (5)

12 First rate chap, youth leader, could persecute others by force (5)

13 Passionate desire in us, they say, shows health and strength (9)

14 A towering structure to hope for (6)

16 Chap in charge is affected by madness (5)

19 Sacred Buddhist writing (5)

20 Just a moment, boxer's aide! (6)

25 Old man in Algeria tricked out (9)

26 Title holder but a poor performer in the Communist Party (5)

27 An instrument to be played softly (5)

28 A tailor's trials, or a variation thereof (9)

29 What separates the old and the young upsets parent in Goa, for example (10,3)

Down

2 A worker to run off with a mammal (8)

3 Robust author (5)

4 Sodium on a tree, potential fire-maker (6)

5 The perch for the eminent and superior (8)

6 Destroyer of unwanted growth in the garden (9)

7 This or that or both (6)

8 Greek character, a docile creature, with a prosecutor (6)

9 A new kind of tax causing a sense of anxiety (5)

15 A girl more adapted to a complicated procedure (9)

17 Beebread, food for the gods (8)

18 Legendary lady of the inscrutable smile (4,4)

21 Mark with spots a Dutch fruit (6)

22 A good monkey is very surprised (5)

23 Mysterious container found in an area (6)

24 Duty for a French king after a month (6)

26 Cover for the uneasy head? (5)

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