The Hindu Crossword 12192

December 19, 2017 12:05 am | Updated 12:05 am IST

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Across

  • 1. Initial notice at the shop fixture, perhaps (11)
  • 9. Opens world body's lists (7)
  • 10. Aptitude of teaching staff (7)
  • 11. Manages to catch heart of Bess (5)
  • 12. Element that is unusual on ground (4,5)
  • 13. Shallow sort — big — i am to black out (5)
  • 15. PMO, in toto, is in disarray? That is debatable! (4,5)
  • 18. Joke, not fine but with a bit of geniality, to dismiss big bag (9)
  • 21. There's something more in the next ranch (5)
  • 22. Part of house for phoney persona? (5,4)
  • 24. Pay attention in part of exercise (3,2)
  • 26. Food in Indian bucket learner's taken out for station master's assistant (7)
  • 27. Romantic offering from Kathmandu to pianists (7)
  • 28. Allows walk by prisoners out of number (11)

Down

  • 1. No woman can lose grip over this purse (6,3)
  • 2. Type of drainpipe section you finally put up (1-4)
  • 3. Sort and tally new boastful talk (4,5)
  • 4. Sort out odd platform (7)
  • 5. One refusal to carry plant causes hell (7)
  • 6. Horse stabled in congenial nook (5)
  • 7. He creates fears about a mistrial I left being launched afresh (8)
  • 8. Twice thrummy, featuring an urban legend (4)
  • 14. My French bird is cobra's enemy (8)
  • 16. Quickly transport officer leaves and fixes up space for journalists (5,4)
  • 17. Ornamentations are very soft in coach goods emptied out (9)
  • 19. Devoted to a party circle (7)
  • 20. Fruit Indian young girl halved — Queen returns thanks (7)
  • 22. Stories from leaders of famed Indian business society (4)
  • 23. Briefly snare with ultimately cool fishing net (5)
  • 25. Spoil top number among the abstemious (5)
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