The Hindu Crossword 12222

January 24, 2018 12:05 am | Updated 12:05 am IST

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Across

  • 1. Full of life and spirit, born to be adventurous (5)
  • 4. Bound dictionary showing 'Blight' misspelt with 'A' for 'H' (9)
  • 9. Somewhat ill-treat? Absurd, not right (1,6)
  • 10. Love rat essentially admitting was a pig (7)
  • 11. Of a lens, misaligned between opposite points (4-5)
  • 12. First letter from Delphi or its fourth (5)
  • 13. Girl's returning to run through warm up again (6)
  • 15. Beetle an insect for example ... (8)
  • 18. ... shrewd in the extreme, able to retreat concealing self (8)
  • 19. Subatomic particle with breadth nothing like neutron (1,5)
  • 22. Fabulous Greek fare is soup every so often (5)
  • 24. Viewpoint here arguably to hide behind (2,3,4)
  • 26. Result of jab and cut perhaps (7)
  • 27. Hot drink, char taken hastily going through windpipe (7)
  • 28. Enclosing snaps of the distant past (4,5)
  • 29. Key, alpha sort of personality (4,1)

Down

  • 1. Fight to overcome bloody revolutionary (2,2,3)
  • 2. At heart Achilles, Priam's ode (5)
  • 3. Grand hat worn by a goddess of destruction in dramatic dance (9)
  • 4. Anxious individual bringing up say daughter (2,4)
  • 5. Unfinished business left to handle, one does (5,3)
  • 6. Gross act, stuffing mouth (5)
  • 7. Tracks and terminals under repair (9)
  • 8. Time to expect engagement between two shortly bearing fruit (3,4)
  • 14. Passes on with no difficulty (5,4)
  • 16. Seasoning is at best, all right (5,4)
  • 17. When can having a little sibling help? (6,2)
  • 18. Fellow partner for a singular footwear? (7)
  • 20. Bliss taking vehicle through teeming rain (7)
  • 21. Say protecting university's image (6)
  • 23. Seals many a promotion (5)
  • 25. Online store sales showing at last 40% jump (1-4)

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