The Hindu Crossword No. 9262 Saturday, June 28, 2008

Back but heavily jetlagged......................

Across

 1 Real mad at becoming startled (7) ALARMED

 5 Due to an error, Dick goes around the framework over borehole (7) DERRICK

 9 Oscar steers around Rhode Island, on the privateer (7) CORSAIR

10 As a learner one could be stunted (7) STUDENT

11 Cover wagon tail on time as resolved (5) ATILT?

12 Landing ground for guided missiles (4,5) DART BOARD

13 Order retreat (9) MONASTERY?

15 Implore the French housed in home (5) PLEAD

16 British in year’s beginning, found by the sea (5) BRINY

18 Experienced, as one succumbed to the anaesthetic (9) UNDERWENT

21 Where children alone are cared for (9) ORPHANAGE

24 Marked but not to journalist (5) NOTED

25 Famous Italian from Minorca! (7) MARCONI

26 An artist at tavern gives nothing to a Red Indian (7) ARAPAHO

27 It becomes a record for eastern fleet (7) DISCERN?

28 She keeps warm within a covering (7) SHEATHE

Down

 1 Current demand for recognition (7) ACCLAIM

 2 Disturbed Bishop again, to accuse him publicly (7) ARRAIGN

 3 Would show you intend making a statement (4,2,3) MEAN TO SAY

 4 Could be dead right in having taken the risk (5) DARED

 5 Indeed the imperfect storey was pulled down (9) DESTROYED

 6 The hub of marine activity lies along the loxodromic curve (5) RHUMB

 7 To repeat it needs an Eastern standard (7) ITERATE

 8 A kiddy to catch model American insect (7) KATYDID

14 Learning a pressman needs caution when involved (9) EDUCATION

15 A tear in the page that shows the lineage (9) PARENTAGE

16 To be swept clean, get a new one (7) BROOMED

17 Little devil, with applied skills, communicates (7) IMPARTS

19 Something distilled from former region (7) EXTRACT

20 An immature toad (7) TADPOLE

22 Make a fuss to live in a humble dwelling (5) ADOBE

23 Test of old manuscripts (5) EXAMS

The Hindu Crossword No. 9248 Thursday, June 12, 2008

Looks like a good one today! Have to leave. Traveling for work again till June 27th.......

Across

 1 What an old lag is to his defence counsel (4,4) HARD CASE

 5 Account — almost run up an account! It comes rolling! (6) charge/escrow/credit???

 9 Will one with such manners require no rub-off? (8) POLISHED

10 Where turnover is not applicable (6) return?

12 Creatures having short feet with a point on either side (4) ENTS

13 Can such a case be made against a boatman over his leaking craft? (10) WATERTIGHT

15 Head of shastris picks rows (6) SCRAPS

17 Depression caused by last bit of shattering machine (5) GLOOM

20 You may get scent of our holding a party (5) ODOUR

21 Growing barriers? (6) HEDGES

24 Can this be played with a neat pack of cards? (5,5) DIRTY TRICK

27 One thousand born in a joint (4) KNEE

29 In a feeble manner with once-in-seven-days announcement (6) WEAKLY

30 It’s a strain that concerns them in their work (8) TRAINEES

31 He will never give ‘no’ for an answer (3-3) YES-MAN

32 Lovely girls, but crackers (8) SMASHERS

Down

 1 Skipped and left with it (6) HOPPED

 2 Tell about getting the tale wrong inside (6) RELATE

 3 Sound hiding place for money (4) CASH

 4 Old queen has base set up around capital of Hampi (5) SHEBA

 6 When one cannot make a move (5)

 7 Present a pretty picture? (4,4) rosy glow?

 8 A question of the moment? (4,4) _ _ _ _ TIME

11 Free package in disc discontinued (6) CEASED

14 Cosmetic leaves mother with a mark (4) SCAR

16 City where the prince is on the rise with nymph — there’s no publicity (6)

17 Girl and general in merriment (4) GLEE

18 Have control over the lady who’s wavering (4,4) HOLD SWAY

19 One from a football player won’t be appreciated by team mates (4,4) POOR PASS

22 Stick out there? On the contrary! (6) INHERE

23 A note in the sales about the contracts (6) LEASES

25 Part of royal tableaux in Ukranian city (5) YALTA

26 Rebound with vehicle upon a mantra (5) CAROM

28 Swimmers appear as southern general comes up (4) fins?

The Hindu Crossword No. 9247 Wednesday, June 11, 2008

Across

 1 Deficiency evokes sympathy around a university campus initially (7) PAUCITY

 5 Poor actor, to deride an outdoor bed, … (7) HAMMOCK

10 … cuts off fruits (6) PRUNES

11 During part of a play, I have been passive (8) INACTIVE

12 Note about one small book on famous Italian place (6) TIVOLI

13 The craft that saved animal life (5,3) NOAH'S ARK

14 Tom spanning a wide road with a warning notice (6) CAVEAT

15 Shrink from a call in church (6) CRINGE

18 Strong desire, note, makes for a glow (6) LUSTRE

20 Make it official with healthy backing with a beam all around (6) RATIFY

23 Unpopular English revenue device which made people put their foot down on law (5,3) STAMP ACT

25 Time for a full stop (6) PERIOD

26 Sporting event for a large boat, hard in racing (8) BIATHLON

27 Ocean current flowing from the Nile? No kidding! (2,4) EL NINO

28 Nimbleness of a soldier dazzled youth leader (7) AGILITY

29 In the present day, poetry can be damaging (7) ADVERSE

Down

 2 Skilful tuning of radio takes time (6) ADROIT

 3 B or C maybe, but not A (9) CONSONANT

 4 Tissue, very unhealthy, is caused by cough (7) TUSSIVE

 6 Language of an Indian boy with American agency backing (7) ARAMAIC

 7 The reported strengths of little parasites (5) MITES

 8 What a politician wants from the press — to hide his years? (8) COVERAGE

 9 A sentient guru composed the music to identify the radio station (9,4) SIGNATURE TUNE

16 A nice, new, free deduction (9) INFERENCE

17 A decree to nab good man for stealing cattle (8) RUSTLING

19 Decorative bit on clothing of English boy with the heart of a go-getter (7) EPAULET

21 The one expected to win the championship perhaps (3,4) TOP SEED

22 Shady places which may cause pain for the aged (6) JOINTS

24 Chemical, perhaps a bit of tritium, found in food (5) METAL

The Hindu Crossword No. 9246 Tuesday, June 10, 2008

Across

 1 Relative who hated law, ruing change (8-2-3) DAUGHTER-IN-LAW

10 Transport of nobles of old, needing manpower (9) PALANQUIN

11 Clergyman returning from Agra civil lines (5) VICAR

12 A fop gets 24 hours around New Delhi (5) DANDY

13 But such talks between leaders could also be held in the basement (4,5) HIGH LEVEL

14 A thin piece cut off from a small glandular organ (6) SLIVER

16 Gets ready for publication (5) EDITS

19 Sort of poplar in a small enclosure (5) ASPEN

20 Holiday destination for some padres or transients (6) RESORT

25 Bowl over male, however lacking initially, somehow (9) OVERWHELM

26 Lived with indecent return before time (5) DWELT

27 Political theorist who accepted demand in 51 (5) LASKI

28 Deference can be so nice, a novelty (9) OBEISANCE

29 They want a rich variety of an aquatic plant (5,8) WATER HYACINTH

Down

 2 Legendary land mass that changed the bottom of an ocean (8) ATLANTIS

 3 Man capturing the heart of Anna with a sack (5) GUNNY

 4 Instructed to be tense, say (6) TAUGHT

 5 Outlaw with a faulty grenade beginning to erupt (8) RENEGADE

 6 Sentimental work of fiction — “fresh”, the alien reflected (9) NOVELETTE

 7 Caught in a passion for a sheltered spot (6) ALCOVE

 8 Digging tools, could be from a deck (6) SPADES

 9 Soft part for a commoner (5) PROLE

15 One-time whistler slips on direction (9) ERSTWHILE

17 He, me, both trivialised a monstrous thing (8) BEHEMOTH

18 Hot mantra, oriental measure for a residence down under (4,4) HOME UNIT

21 Rope, at the end of which one would be distressed in the extreme (6) TETHER

22 A simple catch for an attractive girl (5) DOLLY

23 Professional companion in charge is hassled (6) GEISHA

24 Protean creature (6) AMOEBA

26 Old statesman, indigenous Indian, carried article (5) DESAI

The Hindu Crossword No. 9245 Monday, June 09, 2008

Across

 1 Work of the highest excellence in a race (7) CLASSIC

 5 Sir, I act funny, cynical! (7) SATIRIC

 9 One should be mad to have clubs in the tower (4,2,3,6) BATS IN THE BELFRY

10 Succulent plant or an evergreen (6) ORPINE

11 Again got to know about real rent adjustment (8) RELEARNT

13 One who obtains compliance among men for certain (8) ENFORCER

15 It can bring traffic to a stop (6) SIGNAL

18 Martial art with which King Edward caught a deserter (6) KARATE

19 First public performance by head of government, excellent beginning (8) PREMIERE

22 Unconsciousness makes Ian cross, silly (8) NARCOSIS

24 Beautiful flower from Neyveli or Chidambaram (6) ORCHID

27 Homely indications, say, for training in household duties (8,7) DOMESTIC SCIENCE

28 French artist was a ship’s officer who captured one ship (7) MATISSE

29 A way in hostelries to get the viscera (7) INNARDS

Down

 1 Accountant on a drinking bout, say, in ship’s galley (7) CABOOSE

 2 Place about to be turned over? Behave in a troublesome way (3,2) ACT UP

 3 Present in fresh form is a part of a spider producing silk threads (9) SPINNERET

 4 Attractive stick for snooker players, a bit twisted inside (4) CUTE

 5 Spot a revolutionary? Beome very angry (3,3) SEE RED

 6 Pronoun, determiner of the point (5) THESE

 7 Allusion to a testimonial (9) REFERENCE

 8 Costly glass as seen as in a famous palace once (7) CRYSTAL

12 Fix a drink (3) PEG

14 Nowhere near that (3,4,2) FAR FROM IT

16 Baptism with a kind of heater (9) IMMERSION

17 Cook a little fish (3) FRY

18 Monarchy is doing badly in the outskirts of Khartoum (7) KINGDOM

20 What goes on and on is this (7) ENDLESS

21 Forceful but offensive about time in prison (6) VIRILE

23 Grouping of western countries, one’s refuge (5) OASIS

25 It brings an edge to a weapon (5) HONER

26 It’s a variety of white wine from Italy (4) ASTI

The Hindu Crossword No. 2487 Sunday, June 08, 2008

Across

1 Way learner driver becomes exemplary (5) MODEL

4 Stake a Greek character (4) ANTE

7 Anteaters? Lots running wild in Texas (4,4,5) LONE STAR STATE

10 Recalls getting court order at college (7,2) SUMMONS UP

11 Family in street, penniless (5) SKINT

12 Magnificent old coin (5) NOBLE

14 Body of supporters about to be mentioned (9) FOLLOWING

15 Working together, performing live (2,7) IN CONCERT

16 Units destroyed in capital (5) TUNIS

18 Some graced a rowan tree (5) CEDAR

19 Insect shown in paper held by lecturer, worldly-wise (9) DRAGONFLY

22 Shedding tears with the

Italian, attending to injured owl in tree (7,6) WEEPING WILLOW

23 Meal - last of seasonal duck (4) TEAL

24 Foe in Yemen massacred (5) ENEMY

>Down

1 Married woman’s curse (7) MALISON

2 Fabric from Sweden, impressive (5) DENIM

3 One solver seen surreptitiously bringing bottle out (4,4,5) LOSE ONE'S NERVE

4 Runs into singer making money (5) ADAMS

5 One up for trial? (4,5) TEST PILOT

6 Rabble-rousing in second volume (8) SEDITION

8 The cartoonist sacked with little warning (2,5,6) AT SHORT NOTICE

9 Deer with cut leg (4) STAG

13 Defender unhappy to concede defeat (4,4) BACK DOWN

14 Rodents filmed slipping on frozen water (9) FIELDMICE

15 Measure songbird, excluding head (4) INCH

17 Avoid cast abroad (3,4) SHY AWAY

20 Article on member turning up backer (5) ANGEL

21 Aluminium’s in iron? Untrue (5) FALSE

The Hindu Crossword No. 9244 Saturday, June 07, 2008

Across

 1 What prolonged exposure to a big star may cause (9) SUNSTROKE

 5 Singular term for a sharp weapon (5) SWORD

 8 Strong praise for a carbonated drink mentioned in a record (English) (8) ACCOLADE

 9 Vegetable which, if hot, is best left untouched (6) POTATO

11 Rows that cause evidence of crying, say (5) TIERS

12 Individual quirk seen in an isle upset miners (9) MANNERISM

13 Engine part displayed by a hydroscopist on a high (6) PISTON

14 Provide an alert in advance of a wren (redhead) revolting (8) FOREWARN

16 Where one may have to be patient! (8) HOSPITAL

18 A place for prayer in a part of the head (6) TEMPLE

22 The element that a U.S. impost knocked out (9) POTASSIUM

23 Belonging to them is the first of trustees, the one to inherit (5) THEIR

24 A colour with zero scope (6) ORANGE

25 The last one in the side takes part in a channel event half-heartedly (8) ELEVENTH

26 Upright before the court (5) ERECT

27 A bit hot, soldier gets back into a wood in anticipation (9) FORESIGHT

Down

 1 Jump suddenly to constrain deserters to return (5,2) START UP

 2 Coins in a prison the Spanish started stripping (7) NICKELS

 3 Shooter’s aid that makes the choicest piglets run (10,5) TELESCOPIC SIGHT

 4 In a dictionary (English), master finds a word for abnormal swelling (6) OEDEMA

 5 They are on the lookout for shoplifters (5,10) STORE DETECTIVES

 6 Wind instrument puts Cora in a tizzy (7) OCARINA

 7 Perform or take one’s place at the post of commissionaire (7) DOORMAN

10 Spy or a spy at first with no work (5) SNOOP

15 Lacking imagination, Indian doctor pockets little money (5) VAPID

16 Skeletal part, a fashionable bit of the skeleton (7) HIPBONE

17 Locate it at a Trade Union site somehow (7) SITUATE

19 Old European money that a swine found around marshy land reportedly (7) PFENNIG

20 Listeners much favoured within the range of sound (7) EARSHOT

21 One taking a leisurely walk is more fit around the start of morning (6) AMBLER

Correction courtesy Raghuram

Across

23 Country accountant carrying a notice (6) CANADA

The Hindu Crossword No. 9243 Friday, June 06, 2008

Across

 1 There is no dissent in such a decision (9) UNANIMOUS

 5 Covers for the feet that can be used in inflation? (5) PUMPS

 8 The flower of London (6) THAMES

 9 Penny, suffering endless allergy — a result of dietary deficiency (8) PELLAGRA

11 Lament of a chap about love (4) MOAN

12 Failing to recall info: get good, right treatment (10) FORGETTING

14 An American once got brown all around (5) TEXAN

15 Title, shortened, looked soothing (7) HONEYED

16 Electric ray, a source of danger to shipping (7) TORPEDO

17 Parent with boy builder (5) MASON

19 Sops of Kent, silly but gentle of utterance (4-6) SOFT-SPOKEN

20 Ailment detected in a guest house (4) AGUE

22 A convict in Andaman, man out with a large snake (8) ANACONDA

23 Country accountant carrying a notice (6) CABANA?

24 The fruits of engagements (5) DATES

25 I’m sincere, prepared to talk about old times (9) REMINISCE

Down

 1 Part of a tumult I monitored last month (6) ULTIMO

 2 A master of statecraft trained in reality (2,1,6,2,4) AS A MATTER OF FACT

 3 ”Demi”, in a fresh spell, is the same in Latin (4) IDEM

 4 Heavy tool for what some cricketers do — bait and severely criticise (12) SLEDGEHAMMER

 5 Courtesy and refinement of the spoilt seen differently (10) POLITENESS

 6 A lens for blowing up good girl (10,5) MAGNIFYING GLASS

 7 Glen, sad, upset, used bad language (7) SLANGED

10 A question of rules being followed with a spot of neatness (5,2,5) POINT OF ORDER

13 What some inquiry commissions go on getting (10) EXTENSIONS

16 A model lady? (7) TUSSAUD

18 Reduction in cost per covers Electricity Board (6) REBATE

21 The paper at daybreak (4) DAWN

The Hindu Crossword No. 9242 Thursday, June 05, 2008

Across

 1 A hint of winter had twins in a tizzy (5,2,3,4) STRAW IN THE WIND

 8 State where an oasis is developed around dry centre (6) ORISSA

 9 Troublemaker with a holy book? Silly rot (8) AGITATOR

11 Fruits recently stolen provide ammunition (9) GRAPESHOT

12 Dictatorship that was prosperous around the east (5) REICH

13 Plunge into a choice New York opera house (7) PLUMMET

15 Old student swallowed iodine and oxide (7) ALUMINA

17 Voice modulation in Eastern Deccan perhaps (7) CADENCE

19 Teacher in Assam Mail, say (Eastern Railway) (7) TRAINER

21 Singular yearning for a great forward movement (5) SURGE

23 Sack Britain and find one who causes unrest (9) FIREBRAND

25 Awakening Rao somehow, you reportedly chant (8) AROUSING

26 Some verse from Turkmenistan, Zanzibar etc. (6) STANZA

27 Prevailing rules, but they do not bar people from being seated (8,6) STANDING ORDERS

Down

 1 Temporary measure to plug a hiatus (7) STOPGAP

 2 Indian dish, right? Excellent, thank you (5) RAITA

 3 The launderer who used to be the girl’s husband (9) WASHERMAN

 4 Elated by drink at a meal (4,3) HIGH TEA

 5 An essential solution, note, in conflict (5) WATER

 6 Food — is a nut riot in order? (9) NUTRITION

 7 Creator who quelled harm in the borders of Bharatavarsha (6) BRAHMA

10 Close down a small, humble dwelling (4) SHUT

14 On the ground are two European articles, over twelve inches (9) UNDERFOOT

16 Lo! A turban comes unstuck in Asian capital (4,5) ULAN BATOR

17 Such clothes are unfit for formal occasions (6) CASUAL

18 F and D, say, heard in Turkish address (7) EFFENDI

19 A small lake in Bastar newly reclaimed (4) TARN

20 The artist calls for some tyres (7) RADIALS

22 One is distracted by a red dye (5) EOSIN

24 Girl, one with a new name, that is (5) ANNIE

The Hindu Crossword No. 9241 Wednesday, June 04, 2008

Across

 1 Crumpled city maps include article which is appealing (11) SYMPATHETIC

 9 Language of Ottoman chief with airy fashion (5) ORIYA

10 Life support for former partner coming in for sandwiches (9) EXISTENCE

11 Frank, say, from Rhode Island, speaks Indian language (5) DOGRI

12 Novice tries cooking an arthropod feeder (11) INSECTIVORE

13 Not odd for the French to be included in a cricket team (6) ELEVEN

14 Language of Karnataka, primarily for a couple of girls (7) KANNADA

18 Fragment of miso spread swallowed by Greek goddess (7) ATOMISE

20 One harboured by Oriental in African grassland made invisible (6) VEILED

24 Support ensures a car gets a face-lift (11) REASSURANCE

26 Note about Mary’s follower, reportedly an Andes climber (5) LLAMA

27 Turn out to lift the opening in centre court for Vel to return (9) EVENTUATE

28 Refresher, say, in centre of Lothal for some canines (5) TEETH

29 Lacking skill in tiff, niece floundered (11) INEFFICIENT

Down

 1 Powdered spice from heart of Armenia, for example (8) SPECIMEN

 2 She is found in an American state with a Middle Eastern shroud (9) MAINSHEET

 3 Object to magazine feature (7) ARTICLE

 4 Language of Doe, an international leader (5) HINDI

 5 Abstain from partial guarantee to talk (8) TEETOTAL

 6 Strongly disapprove of Ontario Democrat featured in Chinese website (7) CONDEMN

 7 Language in the outskirts of Grenoble for princess to depend on (5) HINGE

 8 Incomplete story about Michigan in Indian language (5) TAMIL

15 Indian capital reportedly clan in an eye opening sketch (9) DELINEATE

16 See a strange entertaining revolutionary ritual in Indian language (8) ASSAMESE

17 Disciple to head out with reference book (8) ADHERENT

19 Letters from Delmar, at Hiedelberg, in Indian language (7) MARATHI

21 Capricious geological feature (7) ERRATIC

22 Fabric for Abraham’s nephew in Switzerland (5) CLOTH

23 Confused German, not quite a PlayStation enthusiast (5) GAMER

25 Support for quiet fairy (5) SHELF