Miscellaneous - Crossword   

The Hindu Crossword No. 2718

Across

 1 Time church is embraced by young girl (8)

 5 Captain forgoes starter of smoked herring (6)

10 Country home, one acquired by American lawyer (5)

11 Implications, obvious ones (9)

12 A novel type of steak, a step below rare (11,4)

13 Craftily poisoned Greek god (8)

15 Composer’s record mentioned on the radio (5)

18 Girl left entry in chronicle (5)

19 Rather inferior wine about? One’s taken in (8)

21 Wily chieftain in plot over my dead body (3,2,1,3,4,2)

24 Invertebrate with peculiar end piece wrapped round centre of petal (9)

25 Brought in by Ethel, English girl (5)

26 Crude burrow at end of gully (6)

27 Lovely girl, first to bring in beer (8)

Down

 1 Complain about onset of pneumonia, or flu (6)

 2 I wondered about getting a bedcover (9)

 3 Irrationally pinch her leaflet in Derbyshire town (6-2-2-5)

 4 Biblical character, one elevated by church (5)

 6 Frightfully thin European, completely naked (2,3,10)

 7 Criticise the Spanish jury (5)

 8 Poet to resist changes (8)

 9 Came back to warn over taking pot inside (8)

14 Courtier came and sold bubbly (8)

16 Culprits embarrassed black exotic dancers here (5,4)

17 Clinging sort in pub, clean out (8)

20 Immediately pay the penalty, catching cold (2,4)

22 Meaning of number one tune raised (5)

23 Very much what eternity

offers? (2,3)

Printer friendly page  
Send this article to Friends by E-Mail

Stories in this Section

The Hindu Crossword No. 2718
Solution No. 2717
Weather

Copyright © 2007, The Hindu. Republication or redissemination of the contents of this screen are expressly prohibited without the written consent of The Hindu