The Hindu Crossword 12078

August 05, 2017 12:05 am | Updated 12:05 am IST

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Across

  • 1. Burn fossil fuel, avoid losing absolute power (8)
  • 5. Backing, crash partly into a dock (6)
  • 9. Foreign parliamentarian following one alternative trend regularly missing (8)
  • 10. A crime department investigator cunning for starters and sharp (6)
  • 12. Musician covers eastern shore (5)
  • 13. Leader’s having energy, not so much quiet (9)
  • 14. Twins imagine a lost building (6)
  • 16. Force short break after crossing a bridge (7)
  • 19. More dangerous for one gliding down mountain after odd rain (7)
  • 21. Wipes the French containers on the outside (6)
  • 23. Egomaniac somehow gets pardon? (4,5)
  • 25. Leaders of Britain under royal mandate abandon country (5)
  • 26. Money we divide for aunt’s son (6)
  • 27. Craft tie designed to pick top three correctly (8)
  • 28. Offer from former lover (nurse) (6)
  • 29. Stout ale left inside becomes insipid ale (4,4)

Down

  • 1. Goes up with hundred members (6)
  • 2. Finally catch a chance in range of letters (9)
  • 3. Revolver near the harbours (5)
  • 4. City in northeastern china damaged (7)
  • 6. Tell perhaps almost sort of original (9)
  • 7. Gift expected at home at the beginning (5)
  • 8. Any crest turns into descent (8)
  • 11. Initially lacking hard fight (4)
  • 15. Forgery by one with mass appeal at leaderless country (9)
  • 17. Specialist doctor dissecting liver caught damaged cavity (9)
  • 18. Problematic king misplaced one hundred and fifty fifth letter in vehicle (8)
  • 20. Path in segment of Broadway (4)
  • 21. Penny really evens out interior (7)
  • 22. A disheartened zarina entering watering hole in marketplace (6)
  • 24. Scale Everest for one (5)
  • 25. Appropriate for perk to exclude new engineer (5)
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