The Hindu Crossword No. 9334 Monday, September 22, 2008

Across

 1 Over which one in ‘pride’ may hold sway? (6,7) ANIMAL KINGDOM

10 European city makes master mad somehow (9) AMSTERDAM

11 Aid to navigation, one way and another (5) RADAR

12 Lies about beer in a backstreet (5) TALES

13 The runs I made working for a child-minder! (9) NURSEMAID

14 Unmarried and is in sin gleefully (6) SINGLE

16 Lacking taste, Indian healer swallows a drop of potion (5) VAPID

19 Emotion resulting when daughter escapes risk (5) ANGER

20 Programme of action for a female (or male), say (6) AGENDA

25 Sort of music that conservative Callas is making (9) CLASSICAL

26 A day in the southeast for one from Stockholm (5) SWEDE

27 For a breather, one gets this garment (5) LUNGI

28 From where to observe the position taken (9) VIEWPOINT

29 Primitive organism with an agreeable lung structure (4-5,4) BLUE-GREEN ALGA

Down

 2 No-good, silent variety of little bird… (8) NESTLING

 3 … comes across sporting events (5) MEETS

 4 Boy in good act of putting cargo on a ship (6) LADING

 5 Deathless but lacking in ethics around capital of Thailand (8) IMMORTAL

 6 Kind of compulsory leave — for growing plants? (9) GARDENING

 7 Passe, like a deerstalker perhaps (3,3) OLD HAT

 8 Prickly growth about to be contained by Tom, American (6) CACTUS

 9 Unrefined but valuable stuff (5) CRUDE

15 Great victory makes for an avalanche (9) LANDSLIDE

17 Break code verb to find something in the boudoir perhaps (8) BEDCOVER

18 Signing up as a participant, maybe (8) ENTERING

21 Experts in a division of the office (small) (6) ADEPTS

22 The measure of a string of notes (5) SCALE

23 Kind of grass that Rendal destroyed (6) DARNEL

24 Make an accusation using some legal legerdemain (6) ALLEGE

26 The colour of an old record, one in South Africa (5) SEPIA