The Hindu Crossword No. 9502 Thursday, April 09, 2009

Across

1 Old cart for member of a U.S. party (8) DEMO CRAT

5 Rob and Eli together refitted pot for stewing (6) BOILER

9 Between which a scared cur may tuck its tail (4,4) HIND LEGS

10 Not completing the ride in one beachwear (6) BIK(-E) IN I

12 Gadding about without showing impudence and without noise is a Russian (4) IVAN

13 Cleaned lip by fits and starts with substance a writer has (6,4) PENCIL LEAD*

15 What one has to pay to confine new ruler (6) PRI(N)CE

17 Silly things to look back within the boundaries of grange (5) G(EES<-)E

20 Nice boss abandons Hobson’s choice to produce illicit liquor (5) HOOCH (Hobson's choice - Nice boss)

21 Wish to reside in a different style (6) DESIRE*

24 Being revengeful, five in the limits of Delhi evict Dotty (10) V IN DI (CTIVE*)

27 Dotty with Indian flower losing heart (4) GA(-LAN)GA

29 Justice denied, combatant on horseback faces dispossession (6) (-J)OUSTER

30 Shrub in balustrade destroyed without notice (4,4) BLUE STAR (balustrade - ad)

31 Insect besets French friend’s household (6) F(AMI)LY

32 Endure the fall — after which there’s nothing to lap up (4,4) LAST DROP

Down

1 Writer gets first-class return in a bloomer (6) DAHL (IA<-)

2 When a girl embraces a weary don (6) M(OND)AY

3 Reserved with the aged (4) C OLD

4 Band’s leader leaves ornament in corner (5) (-B)ANGLE

6 Alternative garland hoisted at the window (5) OR (IEL<-)

7 One who waits to see it go wrong about the end of phase (8) LO IT ER(E)R

8 Beasts, free, grinned, we hear — regular losses there! (8) REI(-G)N DEER

11 Bill has a levy for admission (6) AC CESS

14 Leader of Maoists sneaks out of demonstration at curved gateway (4) (-M)ARCH

16 In which state one remains uncovered (6)NUDITY

17 Bloody try at the lines (4) GO RY

18 Chauffeur said to be on leave. Go away! (5,3) SHOVE OFF

19 Not cornered with problem for a large amount (5,3) ROUND SUM

22 Talk with Helen at terrace’s centre (6) NATTER

23 Leaders of New Delhi leave bunker at golf course with Governor (6) SA(-ND)TRAP

25 Perfect notion advanced by the learner (5) IDEA L

26 Scoundrel not in residence (5) VILLA(-IN)

28 Soft is the French nuisance (4) P EST

The Hindu Crossword No. 9501 Wednesday, April 08, 2009

Across

1 Decorative object is at the end part of the surface on the east most borders (7) T RINK ET

5 Adopt Kate by the order in court (4,2) TAKE UP

10 Reformer pursuing a political cause (8) ACTIVIST

11 Invasive growth found in the pelican cerebrum (6) CANCER

13 Attempts to boil dish oddly (4) B I D S

14 Putting right the wrong bandage again (10) RE DRESSING

16 Sound of a musical instrument for ever in the book (6) READ(~reed)ER

18 Street made in the style to cover the gym for group action (8) ST AM(PE)DE

21 Strange to greet sir in an official list (8) REGISTER*

22 Grain on each part of an eye (6) CORN EA

25 Officials for the participants hold the hand of the leader of the dynasty (10) COMMANDERS

27 Repeat of a sound from the speech overheard (4) ECHO

30 Girl is at the University with Albert once a year (6) ANN U AL

31 Destroyed your band at the border line (8) BOUNDARY*

32 Tough tissue (6) MUSCLE

33 Turn back the animals to the French in the farm buildings (7) STAB<-LES

Down

2 Judged the Republican side of Edward (5) R AT ED

3 Peculiar van covering a round star (4) N(O)VA

4 Weekend festival in spring (6) EASTER

6 Natives take up a drinking place within half of Asia (5) A(RAB<-)S

7 Uncle aide sets geometry with similar axioms (9) EUCLIDEAN*

8 Religious, naughty child is in a canoe (7) PI ROGUE

9 Head boy to shear the bear on the side by the hairdresser (6) B ARBE R

12 Make forth the small bubbles (5) FROTH*

15 Dining room in a state of disorderliness (4) MESS

17 Developed a doubt in the strange discussions (9) ARG(UM)ENTS

19 Nomadic person in a wild area (4) MOOR

20 Large dew holding a layer of seven plants (5) WE(E)D(S)

21 Recipe left with an intention to extract useful substances (7) REC L AIM

23 Unnamed author is new on the track in America (6) A(N ON Y)M

24 You are in a fix inside the court to shout loudly (3,3) C(RY OU)T

26 Make use of the road for five in trouble (5) A V AIL

28 Machine bird (5) CRANE

29 Arrogant son is upset by the bishop (4) SNO B

The Hindu Crossword No. 9500 Tuesday, April 07, 2009

Across

1 Give an account of the French journalist (8) DE SCRIBE

5 Irritated a woman over a bit of the thing (4) FRET

9 Thousand workers cover the German in searches conducted (8) M AN(HUN)TS

10 Almost mark one active rock (6) SCOR(-E) I A

12 Prophet inside a house erected (4) SEER

13 Able to withstand the evidence following an emotional disturbance (5-5) SHOCK-PROOF

15 What happens to an editor when the blood does not reach the arteries? (3,11) BAD CIRCULATION

17 State of being liable for the written record by hand for one settled at the end of the day (14) ACCOUNTABILITY

21 Her glance is to order around the student contestant (10) CHAL(L)ENGER*

22 Health resort has a lot of junk mail (4) SPA M

25 Alternatively, turn back to the scholar being not specific about the good book (6) RO<-MA N S

26 Epic poem has a long series of adventures (8) ODYSSEY S

27 Reported to sleep lightly having a portion of medicine (4) DOSE (~doze)

28 Stage films at festivals (8) RELEASES

Down

1 End of the wrong side covering half of them (6) D(EM)ISE

2 Slight burn on the surface is an offense, for example to be taken up (5) SIN GE<-

3 Cut off an open way for a confused crowd of people (4) ROUT(-E)

4 Herb cut is scattered by the slaughterer (7) BUTCHER*

6 Part of a plant is in the container (10) RECEPTACLE

7 One to instill fear is a member of a militant group (9) TERRORIST

8 Cast off things in lunch affairs (5) CHAFF

11 Oddly, each round has colour (4) E C R U

14 Clean the large city in bits of nodes of regions having less vegetation (10) SCRUB LANDS

16 Approved of an amateur around to calm one kind of an editor (9) AC CLA(I)M ED

18 Note the vibrant shade of a colour (4) TI NT

19 Group of workers ride high in a drinking game (4,3) BEE R DIE

20 Keeps people entertained in the morning for us to be at ease (6) AM US ES

21 Restores the health of the parish priest on Saturday (5) CURE S

23 President as in the print media (5) PRESS

24 Passageway without article, is on land surrounded by water (4) (-A)ISLE

The Hindu Crossword No. 9499 Monday, April 06, 2009

Across

8 Under no circumstances, an odd boy made is nervous (4,2,4,4) OVER MY DEAD BODY

9 Town is the starting point in India’s capital (6) DEL(P)HI

10 Pal has a strange remedy for a close relationship (8) PLA TONIC

11 Soundly supervises in a foreign country (8) OVERSEES (~overseas)

13 Bears a design to wear away (6) ABRASE*

14 Break the hollowed-out space (6) RECESS

16 Holy man can form an English attitude (6) ST ANC E

19 Perfect place to bend the cover in Iowa (6) U TOP IA

21 Invisible creatures born to an unusual cat, each covering the side of the road (8) BACTERIA

23 One who scouts the way ahead for a group (8) OUTRIDER

24 North-east worker head is the one in to be a freshman (6) NE W B(I)E

26 Did three get her to experiment the intensive interrogation? (3,5,6) THE THIRD DEGREE*

Down

1 Additionally, a large room covering an English priest is taken up (8) MOR(E)O VER<-

2 Take a secret look in the gym record (4) PE EP

3 Official to trap the politician in anger (6) U MP IRE

4 Good exercise for the sailor before the third treatment of the fat (7) ADIPOSE

5 Animal has the skill to cover the current cloudy lens (8) CAT AR(AC)T

6 Aversion to bar her once maybe (10) ABHORRENCE*

7 Takes in to note the short time in the notices (6) AD(MIT)S

12 Get back to cure the troubled in Peru with progressive speed (10) RECUPERATE

15 Time period taken to almost drill in the triangular surface area (8) SPAN DRIL

17 Called forth the Spanish in charge of the wrong diet (8) EL IC ITED

18 Push out to adjust our debt (7) OBTRUDE*

20 Excited, so to speak having received specific instruction (6) TOUCHY

22 Horse ride in a Tuscan territory (6) CANTER

25 Take up the uncooked layer of the product (4) WAR<-E

The Hindu Crossword No. 9498 Saturday, April 04, 2009

Across

7 Engineer is likely to be dependable (8) RE LIABLE

9 Bring to mind the visit following the queen turned back (6) RE<- CALL

11 Dictated a piece to an educated man about the bad experience (9) NIGHT MA RE

12 Sound to be back on an island in the East (5) NO IS E

13 Speaker has an alternative for an army to turn back on the outer borders (6) OR AT<- OR

14 Sound to express alarm over a manipulated card bill (8) BIRDCALL*

17 Returned the piece of cloth to the sender maybe for the caretakers (9) GAR<-DENERS

22 Never change to mean it (2,2,4) AT NO TIME*

23 Princess holds the gold string to the left of the lizard (6) IG UA NA

25 Indicated to the soldiers in Channel Islands at the front of the territory (5) TA CI T

27 Cause of tension as a new bail is written for an Italian monarch (4,5) NAIL B IT ER

28 Manuscript is namely a photographic film (6) SC ROLL

29 What the bank may give to benefit a holder? (8) INTEREST

Down

1 Get the second sound of bell playing (5,2) B RING ON

2 Official to send a signal to the soldier (7) FLAG MAN

3 Loud table sound! (5) BLEAT*

4 A worker from Europe only (4) PEON

5 Chemical group has a small structure, overheard (7) RADICAL (~radicle)

6 The aging shrub lay heartlessly (7) ELDER LY

8 Roast tuna cooked by a spaceman (9) ASTRONAUT*

10 Soft Russian leader is covering an oriental cross (7) LENI(E)N T

15 Position to lie rigid around a second class airship (9) DIRIGI(B)LE

16 Notice a man on the tree top being very stubborn (7) AD A MAN T

18 Noisy worker to say wrong of something imagined (7) F ANT ASY

19 Creature in United Nations has an officer on the borders of erstwhile Rangoon (7) UN I CO RN

20 Vessel for a youngster in the restaurant outside (7) CAN TEEN

21 Ran up in speed to tell a story (7) NAR<-RATE

24 Help taken up by the knight for one princess (5) DIA<-N A

26 Note for the French story (4) TA LE

The Hindu Crossword No. 9497 Friday, April 03, 2009

Across

1 Social class of actors in the East (5) CAST E

4 Unit to design a bridge (7) BRIGADE*

10 Puts up a proposal for half of the dues (6) A BID ES

11 Meeting of a political party (8) CONGRESS

13 Drawings for the king on seven official documents (8) CHART ER S

14 Holy man has a novel family tree (6) ST EMMA

16 Meat cut from the portion below the waist (4) LOIN

17 Having come together, party king is at the Eastern gate (10) CONG R E GATE

20 Er, I’ll dance in a dizzy with the fairy tale girl (10) CINDERELLA*

21 Father on the incomplete track (4) PA TH

24 Peacekeepers on the line of control have thousand to set free (6) UN LOC K

26 Every year, girl at University has an associate (8) ANN U ALLY

28 Processed the main issue for an editor (8) SEA SON ED

29 Colour to note for the girl (6) SIENNA

30 Window cover can not open thrice (7) SHUTTER

31 Overheard of an insect on a plant (5) BETEL (~beetle)

Down

2 Protest for a silver titan to dance around a ring (9) AG I TATI(O)N

3 An arrangement to make an effort to take in a meal (6) TR(EAT)Y

5 Game piece for a bird (4) ROOK

6 Ready on time in to greet a kind of an enterprising person (2-6) GO-GET(T)ER

7 I am following the red change of phenomenon in sleep (5) DRE AM

8 Standard cell without the end in a wrapped container (6) PAR CEL

9 Distraction from the French art on land (6) ESCAPE

12 Sound of an entertainer for one in the cavalry (7) TROOPER (~trouper)

15 A substance on the head of a girl lasting through all time (7) AGELONG

18 Almost immediately, take a quick look after the soldiers come up on the road (2,1, 6) AT A GLANCE

19 Try to communicate with every single person in a disorderly crowd of people (5,3) REACH OUT

20 Mode of conduct on the track (6) COURSE

22 Popular period for our man is at the end of July from sunrise to sunset (6) HE Y DAY

23 Loud film for the elite almost taken up in an unsuccessful attempt (6) F U TILE

25 Strap to control a set of three animals (5) LEASH

27 Reported of a durable material having a certain trait (4) GENE (~jean)

The Hindu Crossword No. 9496 Thursday, April 02, 2009

Across

1 Confused opera piper led in a neat manner (5-3,5) APPLE-PIE ORDER*

8 Father turns back for a respite to order the first course of a meal (9) AP<- PETISER

9 Actions taken on legal documents (5) DEEDS

10 Plain artist has one caught in anger (7) P RA IR(I)E

12 South Island has the main kind of monkey (6) SI MIAN

14 Fruit drink for a crowd of people (5) CRUSH

16 Mammals measure up to twenty incomplete squares (4) ELKS

19 Head nurse to copy the back side of the neck (4) N APE

20 Born in Alabama on Tuesday, an explorer gets a large bird (9) AL BA T ROSS

21 Leader in charge of the ceiling decoration (4) BOSS

22 Cast perform some parts of the play (4) ACTS*

25 Subjects of study in software assignments (5) AREAS

27 Jade in to last for long in the space station (6) SAL(YU)T

29 Scholarly king on the little horse (7) LEAR NED

32 Emperor protects a wild ass (5) KI(A)NG

33 People not present have seen a best form (9) ABSENTEES*

34 Real speedy tax developed in a worse manner (13) EXASPERATEDLY*

Down

2 Leader’s short speech to boost confidence (3,4) PEP-TALK

3 Subsequently — an unpunctual monarch (5) LATE R

4 Mounted up the lady on the side of a pram (6) PU<-SHE R

5 Royal Navy after each to work hard for money (4) EA RN

6 Rhode Island covers a notice on single line segments (5) R(AD I)I

7 Welcome celebrities on a coloured rug (3,6) RED CARPET

8 Have enough of an unopened specimen for analysis (5) AMP(-U)LE

11 In charge of the oriental snake in the vessel (7) IC E BOA T

12 Talk in a friendly way to a quiet animal (7) SH MOOSE

13 People in South Africa have an organization for the very intelligent (5) MEN SA

15 Loosen the odd gunny twines (5) UNTIE

17 A double for an actor (4,5) LOOK ALIKE

18 Disrespectful German soldier is in to request (5) SA(SS)Y

23 Hide the fact from the commander in a clean manner (7) CO NCEAL

24 Borders of a liner around a fish (5) S(IDE)S

26 Gangster to request before a state (6) AL ASK A

28 Strong desires from four gestures (5) URGES

30 Girl terribly inane (5) ANNIE*

31 Losing heart to sculpt the hollow enclosure (4) CA(-R)VE