The Hindu Crossword 11944

March 02, 2017 10:51 pm | Updated 10:51 pm IST

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Across

  • 1. PS: Amino acid is synthesized for alcoholic (11)
  • 9. Game non-drinker's in the toilet (5)
  • 10. Reveal Ali can make a necklace pendant (9)
  • 11. Western miner's hope to get gold (10)
  • 12. After morning, doctor gets cartridges, for example (4)
  • 13. Platforms where people orate, for starters, and reject help (5)
  • 15. In Indo-China, National Liberation Front's badly coveting VC (8)
  • 17. Devious secret agents give away flying Gnat for 2 1/2 asses in Rome (8)
  • 19. Angry setter holds rodent with energy (5)
  • 22. Intoxicated gent left nitrogen compound in club (4)
  • 23. Ancient Indian writing — it can be sent to a publisher (10)
  • 26. Packed away more than required ... finished and brewed tea before dash, perhaps (9)
  • 27. Cove’s intel is bad (5)
  • 28. Hitcher's gal rummaged for some bright illumination (11)

Down

  • 1. A Morse sound to represent "same as above" (5)
  • 2. Salt the sap mixed to make soup, in Vietnam, for starters (9)
  • 3. Wrongly cool carbon and potassium as reckoned by a time machine (6)
  • 4. Criminal carries chopped olive in sacs (7)
  • 5. Free to re-assemble slide rule sans nonsensical rules (4)
  • 6. Cram folded dosa with a bit of egg and get a refreshing drink (5,4)
  • 7. Students rise and make mistake (4,2)
  • 8. Naughty gnome ate king's flower (6)
  • 14. Finds that storage devices contain 6 balls (9)
  • 16. Fool takes cold asafoetida for involuntary jerking (9)
  • 17. Song composed about top class city (6)
  • 18. Messy Vietnamese congee has a tailless arachnid (7)
  • 20. European country's landed property (6)
  • 21. Let nun construct an underground passage (6)
  • 24. Little bit of land surrounded by the sea is tenanted (5)
  • 25. Big game’s rescheduled (4)
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