The Hindu Crossword 12048

July 01, 2017 12:05 am | Updated 10:29 am IST

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Across

  • 1. Half the country's on credit, mostly those in the countryside (6)
  • 4. Gets nice daughter-in-law by chance (8)
  • 10. Friendly, over time became indigenous (9)
  • 11. Hound loses blackbird (5)
  • 12. Harangue with Dogberry (7)
  • 13. Man's superb, girls go and beg him (7)
  • 14. Do follow the essence of what's written, to be precise (5)
  • 15. All the drug leaving island is from trading port (8)
  • 18. Vehicles parked back to front at a game (8)
  • 20. Attention to work, is not a doctrine (5)
  • 23. Free, liberating — discard the bra, you can burn it (7)
  • 25. Shadow cuts through with ease (7)
  • 26. Material girl adopts small boy (5)
  • 27. New demand accepted before one went all round the place (9)
  • 28. Tin may, on melting become something else (8)
  • 29. Oriental loses head, is back (6)

Down

  • 1. Spring line could become heliocentric (8)
  • 2. There's no high and low in heaven — drink (7)
  • 3. Alice isn't flexible? Yes (9)
  • 5. One may be invited for a drink at the inn (6,2,3,3)
  • 6. Thing about the aspiring writer's that, he is clumsy (5)
  • 7. Artist breaks leg, recovers 50% (2,5)
  • 8. Tally — not everyone entered score (6)
  • 9. Characters enter, telling me they're from another planet (6,5,3)
  • 16. By taking time off for a day grows scales (9)
  • 17. I agree to go up and sit before God (8)
  • 19. Make up for a month as workers left for America (7)
  • 21. Half expected Arthur to come in for a lawyer’s party (2,5)
  • 22. American city gets a query? No, it's a state (6)
  • 24. Multimedia is bad, to admit takes some guts (5)
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