The Hindu : Miscellaneous / Crossword : The Hindu Crossword 8998

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The Hindu Crossword 8998

Across

1 Mischievous fellow thrashes Eliot. How rude! (8)

5 Be fifty per cent when you act for someone (6)

10 Lets out loathly hunter’s cry (5,2)

11 Match the devil? (7)

12 Avoid playing chess with Western leader (6)

13 A North American clown breaks religious decree (5,3)

15 X (4)

16 And I search around for something to sit on (5,5)

18 They are a whole lot of good writing from olden times (10)

20 Discovery by not completely gentle daughter (4)

23 Inspectors to leave out jittery member of the royal family (8)

24 A way to gain admission (6)

26 Give life to the drawings? (7)

27 Opposed to civilian (7)

28 Young bird has a tottering leg snared by an alien (6)

29 Inter-changes in cathedral city seen fully (8)

Down

1 Where winner is, to begin with (2,3,5,5)

2 Stinker of a place to be redone (7)

3 They are no professionals (6)

4 Saw, perhaps, gathering up of spoils (4)

6 Intrude on a couple of characters right in railway carriage (8)

7 Two boys take top-grade grass (7)

8 Light and noisy public show (8,7)

9 Alter mama about your old school (4,5)

14 Separate rishi holding debate without no-one back (9)

17 Technologically advanced period which began with the launching of sputniks(5,3)

19 Barrier to top learner in band (7)

21 Tim, see I try and specify individually (7)

22 Duty of the French king after a month (6)

25 Apostrophising homo sapiens in a country (4)

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