The Hindu Crossword 11899

January 09, 2017 01:40 am | Updated 01:45 am IST

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Across

  • 1. Clamp, and for a while, drill (5,3,3)
  • 9. Occasionally test aim in commotion (2,5)
  • 10. Heartlessly study cricket, for instance (6)
  • 11. Poets are leading drunks in pubs? (5)
  • 12. Drone, endlessly at sea, in support of robot (7)
  • 15. Bull swallows Big Apple and mineral (4)
  • 16. Demonstrators are in favour of setter’s doctor (10)
  • 18. Giants lash native upheaval (10)
  • 20. Initially, I don’t envision any plan (4)
  • 23. Film star has a conservative hairdo (7)
  • 24. Take a blanket, we hear (5)
  • 26. Chopin certainly hides tool (6)
  • 27. Asian engineer protected by giant (7)
  • 28. Loosens up, makes fun of a book (6,5)

Down

  • 2. One moth initially in flower’s cracked surface (6)
  • 3. Value company of good man (4)
  • 4. Turning away extraterrestrial giant somehow (10)
  • 5. Sit awkwardly in bandage when hurt (8)
  • 6. Company to approach bank (7)
  • 7. Swindle resort, blame bozo (9)
  • 8. Wild tale about Bond’s boss (6)
  • 13. Her co-stars form musical groups (10)
  • 14. Attacking donkey that is unwell (9)
  • 17. Military buildings have cake stands (8)
  • 19. Vice can be treated with weakened pathogen (7)
  • 21. Final villager falls into grave in famine (6)
  • 22. Bank auditorium missing hall entrance (6)
  • 25. Footprint of idols from the South (4)
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