The Hindu : Miscellaneous / Crossword : The Hindu Crossword 8479

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Wednesday, Dec 21, 2005

Miscellaneous

Miscellaneous - Crossword

The Hindu Crossword 8479

Across

1 Dealer in old clothes etc. with a Goan brand name (3-3-4 3)

9 In coffee it could be a substitute (7)

10 Fish used in good upper-class Maori cooking (7)

11 Big town, say, Vatican perhaps (4-5)

12 Herd of livestock herded (5)

13 Two upright characters figure in team (6)

14 Mobster nestling cosily but, within, most unremitting in his demands (8)

17 Having a shortage, hurried, carrying snare (8)

19 Facial expression of snake etc., slightly altered (6)

23 Senseless chap goes back with a bath sponge (5)

25 Boiled ash scattered and eliminated (9)

26 Place for wannabe bachelors perhaps (7)

27 Examine backward boy? That's an outrage (7)

28 Fall with big noise in rainstorm (13)

Down

1 Salvage and go back to some pedaling (7)

2 The famous tolerate a group of stars (5,4)

3 Greeting a man set in a different mould (7)

4 Keep out the chap, one serving drinks (6)

5 Fails to take care of leg etc., broken between two points (8)

6 Talk aimlessly about U.N. dream perhaps (7)

7 Writer Marsh's tree (5)

8 Divide into three (7)

15 I say, darken with a make-up item (3,6)

16 Make progress with the aged? A novel thing (3,5)

17 Element found in a lion (sic) restructured (7)

18 A leveling off with French dish and water (7)

20 Greens put chaps in distress (7)

21 Small child works out riddle taking little time (7)

22 Cat, instant employer (6)

24 Little hooter in a yellow lettuce bowl (5)

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