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Friday, May 19, 2006

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Miscellaneous - Crossword

The Hindu Crossword 8607

Across

1 Cosmetic application — but it does not make one fade away (9,5)

8 Good English dandy could escape punishment (3,3)

9 Metro cup designed for a marvel of this age (8)

11 An uninteresting bovine at home with a cancer-causing substance (9)

12 Wilt like the penurious daughter on return (5)

13 Coaches (East European originally) for an apprentice (7)

15 Earnest and so sure? I am wrong (7)

17 Driving force of one male: dear American (7)

19 He assists a priest with a carbon monoxide lamp reportedly (7)

21 Be stingy like a Kipling character hemmed in by police officer (5)

23 Puking can be cured by what one does at the end of a journey (9)

25 Fresh flowers reportedly produce mental illness (8)

26 Articles record a parallel thing, American style (6)

27 International conflict that caused closer, downward movement (6,5,3)

Down

1 American state subvention for a wanderer (7)

2 Relating to birth in a part of Africa (5)

3 Trapeze artist's insurance (6,3)

4 Foundation in good circles (7)

5 Swift attack involving one (5)

6 Roman toys deployed in study of celestial things (9)

7 Blunder, outsize, in Cambridge examination (6)

10 The pivot of some tax let-ups (4)

14 Kind of modulation used in radio broadcasts (9)

16 A large cartoon parodies a part of the tooth (4,5)

17 Non compos mentis (6)

18 Deliberate disciple, avoiding depression, expired (7)

19 A member's current units (4)

20 One who involves oneself in a good green revolution (7)

22 Picture, very recent, displayed in post office (5)

24 Relative acquired after a union (2-3)

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