Thursday, December 25, 2008

The Hindu Crossword No. 9414 Friday, December 26, 2008

Across

 1 With which one is called after another (8) NAMESAKE

 5 Friend in France almost pleasant about a kind of acid (6) AMINIC

10 Tirupati “hairdo”? (7) TONSURE

11 Oriental hint about old, good pastoral poem (7) ECLOGUE

12 Address giver (6) ORATOR

13 Not having suffered a single defeat, fancy bun is consumed (8) UNBEATEN

15 To boot a learner thus (4) ALSO

16 Pleasant place in the garden? (3,2,5) BED OF ROSES

18 What a handyman’s box has (3,2,5) SET OF TOOLS

20 Seethe with airline employee abandoning a small road (4) STEW

23 Excited Rani bends before colourful arcs (8) RAINBOWS

24 Footloose girl back with French friend for sausage (6) SALAMI

26 Glacial matter (7) ICEFALL

27 It can be troubling government officials (7) CABINET

28 Describing the first among one’s children (6) ELDEST

29 Keep quiet with second-stringer (8) PRESERVE

Down

 1 What you do for Bharat? (8,7) NATIONAL SERVICE

 2 Handy volumes (7) MANUALS

 3 U.S. port affected by a state of inactivity (6) STUPOR

 4 Continue to support financially (4) KEEP

 6 Obstinate person, not all there, told to inter a fruit (8) MULBERRY

 7 Denies data put up on seat allocation (7) NEGATES

 8 This sane Wallace managed to be faultless (5,2,1,7) CLEAN AS A WHISTLE

 9 Don’t intend to do any harm to reformed ol’ lineman (4,2,3) MEAN NO ILL

14 Proceed with Western measure to have harmonious relations (3,2,4) GET ON WELL

17 Describing a policeman away from routine duties (3-5) OFF-BEATS

19 Where superior batsmen won’t be (4,3) TAIL END

21 Inter-transfer involving artist coach (7) TRAINER

22 Sent up journalist almost daily with a metre in poetry (6) IAMBUS

25 Mark on second vehicle (4) SCAR

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