The Hindu Crossword 12178

December 02, 2017 12:05 am | Updated 01:13 am IST

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Across

  • 1. Remove hint of rancidity from wine with Indian spices (6)
  • 4. Visits initially hostile relatives (6)
  • 9. Journalist, in the morning, has cheese (4)
  • 10. Reaching variant rig in a riot (8,2)
  • 11. Starts riding in yachts and doing hoops of capital city (6)
  • 12. Runs scam on canals (8)
  • 13. Holding up container of gin cocktail (9)
  • 15. Film first known lizard (5)
  • 16. Shoots Soviet missiles (5)
  • 18. In favour of moving advertising (9)
  • 22. Alien in vast surface (8)
  • 23. Meditate after odd beer, stupefy… (6)
  • 25. …the most affluent by brewing whitest ale (10)
  • 26. Accomplishment is the same seen either way (4)
  • 27. Run back into starting of golf course on time (6)
  • 28. Fix architectural ornament according to report (6)

Down

  • 1. Wine created with refined air (7)
  • 2. Spice initially removed from snack on island-nation (5)
  • 3. Fuss about primary endangered animal’s skin (7)
  • 5. Arrival of bill by air (6)
  • 6. Grandma to push tent regularly in American island (9)
  • 7. Severe fight for bronze (7)
  • 8. Already agreed to depart concert? Kind of (13)
  • 14. Crazy man eloped with wallaby? (9)
  • 17. Most dear son trapped in cupboard (7)
  • 19. Criminal to start mauling head off crustacean (7)
  • 20. Indecent boy almost sent back from drama (7)
  • 21. Artist dissolves chemical initially in compound (6)
  • 24. Fly is very small? Not quite (5)
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