The Hindu Crossword 12208

January 06, 2018 12:05 am | Updated 12:05 am IST

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Across

  • 1. Exalted star welcomes salesman sent back by a gangster (8)
  • 5. Sour extract from the Honduran cider (6)
  • 9. Yet to be moulded dean? Push training with.. (8)
  • 10. ..cricket bat from a plant making a machine for the textile industry (6)
  • 11. Ones indulging in audible throwing? (14)
  • 14. Overactive monarch's behind the excessive promotion (5)
  • 16. Watch Suzi in disguise at a site of Nazi atrocities (9)
  • 17. Parliamentarian considering irregular urea use to fit the bill (7,2)
  • 19. Student (one dismounting from a horse after commencement) gets a sharp hooked claw (5)
  • 20. The nature of some clues in this puzzle? (14)
  • 23. Summit success makes Henry go back to following a Buddhist doctrine (6)
  • 24. Catastrophic upset breaks drunk Mani at the summit (8)
  • 25. Scramble to get some of the frozen cod entree (6)
  • 26. Power-usurping Libyan leader with ability to get a reading from a plane's cockpit (8)

Down

  • 1. Shoot a Gulf War weapon (4)
  • 2. Part-time peacekeepers seize ship sailing away (5)
  • 3. Fast breeder, one delivering power efficiently? (7)
  • 4. Bedlam is regularly ignored after troubled marine goes around California to get an ornamental tree (8,3)
  • 6. Astrolabe reading made in the Arizona hut's messed up after a short online message creeps in (7)
  • 7. Heavenly resin from the south kept outside the quarter in order to avoid the Irish leader (9)
  • 8. Slimming dingo wins mysteriously after reception of the last letter (10)
  • 12. Model left to tape hog's aloe treatment related to the gullet (11)
  • 13. Primate's bell entertains the old man (attached to New Zealand) and Edward (10)
  • 15. Anchor Pai's strange writing related to some ancient Egyptian rulers (9)
  • 18. Chronologically ambiguous document, initially cleared by the king, is yet to be censored (7)
  • 19. The named thing turns up after absorbing bismuth, lithium, and sulphur in a Georgian city (7)
  • 21. A privilege for the auditor to make a farewell remark (5)
  • 22. Singles in conversation at the start of a story? (4)
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