The Hindu : Miscellaneous / Crossword : The Hindu Crossword 8800

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Miscellaneous - Crossword

The Hindu Crossword 8800

Across

1 Relation of a white girl, haunted, distressed (8-2-3)

10 He defends by argument, a Justin (9)

11 Old tax, there is an article about it (5)

12 Volume of Turkish money found around end of August (5)

13 Red gemstone causes a cluster of boils on skin (9)

14 Goodbye note found on floor covering in Tokyo (6)

16 Would a traveller tell a fib, say, in response? (5)

19 They are taken in a flight, going up or down (5)

20 Go round for a surgical procedure (6)

25 Disease carrier makes Noah sleep fitfully (9)

26 Bread roll found in a sac by the Spanish (5)

27 Waterfowl gets caught by poaching rebels (5)

28 Debts not settled by pawnbroker, a socialist (9)

29 Distress caused by nine actors not performing (13)

Down

2 An air force officer, say, becoming a heretic (8)

3 Search uncertainly for a good line (5)

4 Spasm felt by sorceress following end of act (6)

5 Sent back — to the House? (8)

6 Free from blame, as the jury might say (3,6)

7 Associate with an embassy official endlessly (6)

8 Everyone in the New York opera gets a hammer (6)

9 Number that is small, not odd (5)

15 Without an equal and the means to light up (9)

17 Hands getting together in appreciation (8)

18 Creature that might be in an unfair court (8)

21 Non-liquid food is sold loose (6)

22 Freight that makes a motor run (5)

23 Old boy upset about changed role in Spanish dance (6)

24 Trash cannot be ruled as out of place inside here (6)

26 Sound sheepish? (5)

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