The Hindu Crossword 12000

May 06, 2017 12:30 am | Updated May 07, 2017 01:32 pm IST

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Across

  • 1. Dreams of snakes receiving one portion (11)
  • 9. …of legumes that cost almost nothing (7)
  • 10. Earnest single heartless man (6)
  • 11. Protect losing Republican’s issue (5)
  • 12. Sincere Wilde stated the importance of being thus (7)
  • 15. Awareness curtailed by dope (4)
  • 16. Delicacy of tennis played in dais (10)
  • 18. Unwind, lose source of stress, protest at port (10)
  • 20. Starts badgering a lonely individual in Indonesian island (4)
  • 23. Prepare again in difficult terrain (7)
  • 24. Greek mathematician extracts iodine from drug (5)
  • 26. Love assortment of fruit (6)
  • 27. Evicting son admitted into excursion (7)
  • 28. Dear sir, save material for enemies (11)

Down

  • 2. Kitchen appliance, unidentified, may be flying (6)
  • 3. Leave Quebec out of enquiry this month (4)
  • 4. Staying away from sailors missing first round of drill (10)
  • 5. Sick of single endless drone in US city (8)
  • 6. Greeting returning chap with wobbly seat (7)
  • 7. Rupee dips in a frenzy from the top (5,4)
  • 8. Minister’s correspondence with lad (6)
  • 13. Stifle authors who write comedy (10)
  • 14. Spying on exotic sea pigeon (9)
  • 17. Beguile at the gate (8)
  • 19. He dares comic to be cut off (7)
  • 21. Scared of air force strike (6)
  • 22. Modest Conservative in a hurry (6)
  • 25. Physicist’s book on how radiation originates (4)
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