The Hindu : Miscellaneous / Crossword : The Hindu Crossword No. 8704

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Miscellaneous - Crossword

The Hindu Crossword No. 8704

Across

1 Student on good number of articles in a bridge hand (4,4)

6 Nurse confesses to be a hothead (4)

9 Young scout takes charge of the woman, an angel (6)

10 Offender is a footloose pickpocket, part of a sect (7)

13 Workers who aren't working (4,5)

14 Nail Tom at the church (5)

15 Put foot down on part of the reintroduced treadle (4)

16 View that happens in a pupil-to-pupil meeting? (3,7)

19 Language rajah and saint mix in usage (10)

21 Great like the start of an Indian state (4)

24 Lotus-like house for Mother (5)

25 What a star has in a film, no doubt (5,4)

26 Fenced-in politician ailed pathetically (7)

27 Grants a minor point (6)

28 Miss not the boy! (4)

29 Means: not I, but the firm fights (8)

Down

2 Shakespearean character to rise with a greeting (7)

3 Watchman in a Nepalese race (6)

4 Rural fact? Just the opposite! (5,4)

5 Counts parasites (5)

7 Race not on, but a race in India (7)

8 Describing the thin, sharp feature of a `battle-axe'? Not exactly! (7-5)

11 `Gap' pays a huge sum for a French article (6)

12 One has to remove it after the present time (4-8)

17 Force one to study music (9)

18 Trouble after a vessel attack (6)

20 Indian city, to boot? (7)

22 Kept away: there's nothing to be greedy about the newspaperman (7)

23 The later part of life (3,3)

25 Five on an incomplete proclamation in Sanskrit (5)

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