The Hindu Crossword 11786

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August 25, 2016 12:44 am | Updated September 30, 2016 06:58 pm IST

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Across

  • 1. Get serious about a depressed joint? (7,4)
  • 9. Look inside the animal for a medicinal powder (7)
  • 10. Plant product gets eccentric trio imprisoned by China (6)
  • 11. Urge to claim pellet gun's contents (5)
  • 12. Note about informal expressions yields clues (7)
  • 15. Bill of fare — something seen on a computer screen? (4)
  • 16. No time to draft annotations about the American city (3,7)
  • 18. Get up! Friar's running around for a plant product (10)
  • 20. Fool's daughter going right to the end of an article reflecting personal views (2-2)
  • 23. Kind of symmetry in the folds around a box for the titanium article (7)
  • 24. Old sweetheart caught with a plant product (5)
  • 26. The first German to be evicted from a farmhouse by Oscar gets a plant product (6)
  • 27. Fabulously designed fob goes missing routinely (7)
  • 28. Dark spruce damaged by copper and a gibbon (11)

Down

  • 2. Quick male enters overturned container before the French (6)
  • 3. Ring to get an old head covering for the auditor (4)
  • 4. Calm surroundings for operation in-charge rendered powerless by a sour milk component (6,4)
  • 5. Set off? (8)
  • 6. Owl Noel disturbed with bulky cloth (7)
  • 7. American football practice leading to a noisy riotous fight (9)
  • 8. Lubricants containing phosphorus returned with new type of footwear (4-2)
  • 13. Woman's daughter's off with the audience (not trendy) to find some clerical assistants (3,7)
  • 14. Excellent view of the swift diving duck (6-3)
  • 17. Battered peanut cooked after a follower meets the Asian (6-2)
  • 19. Drug, fashionable, replaced with hesitation by one with high hopes (7)
  • 21. The plant product was rudely lampooned and left out (6)
  • 22. Part of the sample uranium taken out to get a lung membrane (6)
  • 25. Balu finally gets to support the leaders of the young Uzbek zookeepers with a plant product (4)

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