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