The Hindu Crossword 11877

December 14, 2016 01:16 am | Updated 01:16 am IST

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Across

  • 1. First admission at Victoria and Albert liable to be made free (9)
  • 6. Extravagant advertisement for pastry (4)
  • 8. Dangerous for college if leading original painters abandon pictorial representation (8)
  • 9. Scrutinise exercise stratagem (6)
  • 10. Delegation treacherous, titan perseveres (15)
  • 11. Digression from ideas I detailed (5)
  • 13. Shafts "Special One" in Paris and smiles (8)
  • 15. Match alternatives left for female contestants (8)
  • 18. In recital, need trumpet (5)
  • 20. Archer's tactic is shattering marks (15)
  • 23. Engineer receiving advance gets suit (6)
  • 24. Old fogey's building is around (8)
  • 25. Shake pen (4)
  • 26. Revolutionary gentleman overwhelmed by distraught prudes lost for words (9)

Down

  • 1. Go along with eager insurgent (5)
  • 2. Modified treadle (7)
  • 3. Clasps curls (5)
  • 4. Credits for columns beside rows (2-5)
  • 5. Accounts find former flame unpretentious, simple initially (8)
  • 6. Swinish policeman sent back to overcome resistance in Spain (7)
  • 7. He might be working an angle! (9)
  • 12. Most paltry content in Maxwell's light estimates (9)
  • 14. Darjeeling and Assam, for instance, swamped with dear French instructors (8)
  • 16. Protect port (7)
  • 17. Small transmitter receives signal finally (7)
  • 19. Musicians in Dire Straits (7)
  • 21. Mental criminal decapitated (5)
  • 22. Can future university abide in hostile environment? (5)
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