The Hindu : Miscellaneous / Crossword : The Hindu Crossword No. 8743

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Friday, Oct 27, 2006
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Miscellaneous - Crossword

The Hindu Crossword No. 8743

Across

1 Outspoken note covering article by job applicant (9)

5 Old card game for a Spaniard in a sombrero (5)

8 Barrier across water, with age, shows impairment (6)

9 The time of the dinosaurs (8)

11 Jug you and I found in the central part of Iberia (4)

12 No-good deceiver designs separation (10)

14 Gazelle, say, would ditch worker and run away (5)

15 Operator assumes an attitude and shows resistance (7)

16 Obsolete trumpet, which gets a call in a loud proclamation (7)

17 Writer, in outsize garb, begins business (5)

19 Reducing or removing wrinkles? (10)

20 It may come to a shove in exerting great pressure (4)

22 Informal talk may bring about echo of anger inside (8)

23 Study of the rights and responsibilities of citizenship (6)

24 Flower that the first of us planted in great numbers (5)

25 Would he render one `spiritless'? (9)

Down

1 Stout stick, one of those to take up to defend oneself in a dispute (6)

2 Banking facility relying on figures for stashing away money (8,7)

3 Othello's lieutenant, one with a drive (4)

4 Cool ad Eugene created for fragrant stuff (3,2,7)

5 Citrus rind that got zero latitude with Old British PM (6,4)

6 Management subject for which US sent subsidies — strangely (8,7)

7 They use acid to achieve their designs (7)

10 Get out of bed — and get those boots ready? (4,3,5)

13 Courtesy of pilots seen crumbling (10)

16 Detectives return in spring with a supplement (7)

18 One who runs after beer following spirits (6)

21 Element occurring in topaz in crude form (4)

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