The Hindu Crossword No. 9522 Saturday, May 02, 2009

Losing interest here ....................................

Across

 1 Dispenser of justice and wise men’s treat, oddly (10) MAGI S (TRATE*)

 7 Old boy escorted by soldier in desert (4) G(OB)I

 9 Material for some Chembur lapidaries (6) BURLAP

10 Oddly, a cold run for a pot for boiling (8) CAULDRON*

11 The antithesis, say, in a country (8) N(EG)ATION

12 Extinct primates that had the last word about potential energy (6) A(PE)MEN

13 More frequently, agent used in laundering fails to start (7) (-S)OFTENER

16 Boring chap, full of air? (7) WINDBAG

17 Uninhibited behaviour of a set of players, performing (7) A BAND ON

19 Similarity to a record in a big city … (7) A N(A LOG)Y

22 … in legal action, so as to allow for eventualities (2,4) IN CASE

23 Be watchful of a racket breaking out around the east (4,4) TAK(E)CARE*

26 Back pain gives American agents a spasm in South Africa (8) S(CIA TIC)A

27 Corporal, for example (3-3) NON-COM (~ non-commissioned)

28 One grand in American city, South American city (4) L(I M)A

29 Synthetic (10) ARTIFICIAL

Down

 2 A pretty kind of angle (5) A CUTE

 3 Notoriety — of the sick perhaps (3,4) ILL FAME

 4 Indian river: it goes up around a point (5) T(A PT)I <-

 5 How popular can English be, even if in part mysterious? (6) ARCANE

 6 Scholarship auctioned? Bizarre (9) EDUCATION*

 7 Good fortune, a divine handout (7) GODSEND

 8 Re-usable missile that starts with a big noise (9) (BOOM)ERANG

14 Mathematician famous for his sequence (9) F I B O N A C C I

15 A coterie’s strange secrets (9) ESOTERICA*

18 Famous tourist spot, somewhat popular again, looking up (7) NIAGARA<-

20 Using few words, study one amongst a large number (7) LA(CON I)C

21 Finally, a map book on time (2,4) (AT LAS)T

24 Half-broken African plant (5) KENAF

25 Girl who gets a below-par backing (5) ROOP A <-