The Hindu Crossword 12218

January 19, 2018 12:05 am | Updated 12:05 am IST

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Across

  • 1. Cancel my arrangement of plant (8)
  • 5. Greek character's odd steel tool (6)
  • 9. Disease makes quiet saint to leave (7)
  • 10. Assist youth and yokel by topping (4,3)
  • 11. Soldier is not quite right (9)
  • 12. Subject brought back by some of ticklish Tamils (5)
  • 13. Star's wasted special skills (4)
  • 14. With key classifying, son is out (9)
  • 17. Step repeatedly, endlessly — be revolutionary in showing up stamp oddity (4,5)
  • 19. Old authoritarian spews out: "Rats!" (4)
  • 23. Saying from publicity-obsessed present time (5)
  • 24. Sluggishness of one, new one entering country (9)
  • 25. Bird friend returns to building section (7)
  • 26. How you can't expect a confidence trickster to work (2,5)
  • 27. Sound purchase one finally made in remote store (6)
  • 28. Cause distress to a horse with punishment by woman (8)

Down

  • 1. Credit one bird beginning to love crook (8)
  • 2. Offender almost demure in sect (7)
  • 3. Gather Supreme Court is out to repay (6)
  • 4. A song that does not demand too much from you as you hear it affords ... ... (4,9)
  • 6. The ample, well-rounded spouse (8)
  • 7. Prune those hovering around royal quarter (7)
  • 8. Dirty tale on saint is just out (6)
  • 10. One who is not comfortable in picking up a song is ... ... ... (4,2,7)
  • 15. Live, unusually fine church office (8)
  • 16. Dark girl fixes true bent (8)
  • 18. Illustration once sufficient (7)
  • 20. You are caught by sixteen in France in sudden attack (7)
  • 21. Foils Kabul's planning (6)
  • 22. Person who likes to be seen less and less (6)
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