The Hindu Crossword No. 9331 Thursday, September 18, 2008

Across

 1 Cooking ingredient causes big cry around centre of Tours (4,5) SOUR CREAM

 5 Make a mess of the bed, go crazy (5) BODGE

 8 The colour of a male snake (6) MADDER

 9 For Rani it’s a new kind of knitting (8) INTARSIA

11 Windy broadcaster beginning to yell (4) AIRY

12 Thorough rogue in a cage capers wildly (10) SCAPEGRACE

14 It is nonsense to accept a small bit of food (5) ROAST

15 English trucks (7) LORRIES

16 Bring down the worth of money, as was done in 1966 (7) DEVALUE

17 That lady, Anglo-French, with a bundle (5) SHEAF

19 Grab a bit of the skeleton, the clavicle (10) COLLARBONE

20 Place in the Middle-East, 4840 square yards in area (4) ACRE

22 Lancing a straying church member (8) ANGLICAN

23 Criticise wickedness in a note (6) REVILE

24 Insect seen in a pyramid generally creeping (5) MIDGE

25 Items of food value developed in test run (9) NUTRIENTS

Down

 1 End up in wrongdoing, like a monkey (6) SIMIAN

 2 Badly off, deprived — of gruel, deprived in a different way (15) UNDERPRIVILEGED

 3 Begin chopping, chop and mull over (4) CHEW

 4 Cornering the market with an implosion gone endlessly wrong (12) MONOPOLISING

 5 Teddy’s park is a scene of utter confusion (4,6) BEAR GARDEN

 6 Frustration at a detective inspector’s appeasement (15) DISSATISFACTION

 7 Dodgers, of tax possibly (7) EVADERS

10 A flibbertigibbet would spread support at home (12) SCATTERBRAIN

13 Something to reduce the pain but not necessarily cure the disease (10) PALLIATIVE

16 Hold forth with directions on demand (7) DECLAIM

18 A break on duty (6) RECESS

21 Drink poured from a carafe nicely chilled (4) FENI