The Hindu Crossword 12052

July 06, 2017 12:00 am | Updated 12:00 am IST

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Across

  • 1. Comprehensive surplus mysterious gin cocktail (11)
  • 9. Guilt concerning code (7)
  • 10. Technique to make one crepe (6)
  • 11. Comfort beaten-up slave (5)
  • 12. Tortures in Algiers’ limits, one trapped in past (7)
  • 15. Remarkable heads of rural estates are regal (4)
  • 16. Sees plans for surveillance of boy (4,4,2)
  • 18. Conductor played tandem bars (10)
  • 20. Bridge broadly conceals Spanish River (4)
  • 23. Charge for a leading plastic object (7)
  • 24. Frighten son with automobile emissions, at first (5)
  • 26. Initially contact for permission to separate (6)
  • 27. Nun leaves incubation contraption for non-living things (7)
  • 28. Strange mess in grants’ reviews (11)

Down

  • 2. Caretaker on the brink of leading role… (6)
  • 3. …to stare back, stumble (4)
  • 4. Retire odd sprigger, somehow enrol again (10)
  • 5. Journalist badly yens for carriages (8)
  • 6. New sipper broken by children (7)
  • 7. Advise, partly preach to writer (9)
  • 8. Stroller left in resin (6)
  • 13. Travellers sense, grasp rum (10)
  • 14. Laziness in decline? No, not really (9)
  • 17. I’m to partly mock delayed sacrifice (8)
  • 19. South Asians embroiled in pleas (7)
  • 21. Leading sailor in kayaks shows off (6)
  • 22. Help headless musician (6)
  • 25. Walking-stick for the able elderly leader (4)

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