The Hindu Crossword 12219

January 20, 2018 12:05 am | Updated 12:05 am IST

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Across

  • 1. Sort of personality a langur presents (7)
  • 5. Caught back with no-soft go (6)
  • 9. Skimpy clothing item — if royal gets into it, there will be a crowd (5)
  • 10. Unexpected hazard by waving green wand (3,6)
  • 11. Criticise a church academician producing a cure-all (7)
  • 12. Enamoured of small hand covering (7)
  • 13. Fend off the agent giving finishing touches to the deal (5)
  • 14. Late on transplanting a tree but free from blame (9)
  • 16. Indicate I will finally make a pattern with dots (9)
  • 19. Analyse composition of pears (5)
  • 21. Criticise Left's emotional bond (7)
  • 23. A model in that place — entertainment venue (7)
  • 24. Make a beastly noise with boy — our next-door fellow (9)
  • 25. Boredom of central agency genuine (5)
  • 26. Indian woman on Thailand thoroughfare (6)
  • 27. Sena's operation over dead society causes grief (7)

Down

  • 1. This gives you "no sweats" (14)
  • 2. N, W or G have changed and are rebellious — quite big! (5-2)
  • 3. Sound record — one about criminal (7)
  • 4. What a visitor at the front door might do — does it arouse memory? (4,1,4)
  • 5. What a children's game gives in hills (5)
  • 6. Pair disheartened by a business in confection (7)
  • 7. Rashly target a boat race (7)
  • 8. Perks you will not want to fall over the edge (6,8)
  • 15. Upsets open vessels (9)
  • 17. Mark Public Relations in one plant (7)
  • 18. You once grabbed big bird's foot (7)
  • 19. Fake it before nurse? (7)
  • 20. Unite in a rush on first train (7)
  • 22. Advocate holding river fish (5)
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