The Hindu Crossword 12255

March 03, 2018 12:05 am | Updated 07:49 am IST

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Across

  • 1. Plants wild shrub without watering hole (8)
  • 5. Compulsion from university to wear formal clothes (6)
  • 9. Instrument of devious, new international cartel (8)
  • 10. Upset animal moving ahead to attack (6)
  • 12. Journey around Grand Canyon’s rim perhaps (5)
  • 13. Worried rookie to train hard for sporting event (9)
  • 14. Indict one under custody (6)
  • 16. Obscure and short movie on church ending all the way on top (7)
  • 19. Regret from leaders of Rajasthan enforcing a code (7)
  • 21. Mathematicians left replacing dead trees (6)
  • 23. Does hard worker run away with chief surgeon? (9)
  • 25. Cash from first working day, easily emptied (5)
  • 26. Cut short comedy with line that is very different (3,3)
  • 27. Working attempt to arrest governor trying to escape (2,3,3)
  • 28. Deadly to allow criminal smuggling heroin (6)
  • 29. Approve a chapter on faith (8)

Down

  • 1. Log trimmed merely with string (6)
  • 2. Segment of bonus and theme song (2,3,4)
  • 3. Assistant shelters saint out of consideration (5)
  • 4. Pause from soldier tucking into dip (7)
  • 6. Engineering student left worried and restless (9)
  • 7. Weak backing restrains one medium of communication (5)
  • 8. Piece from thin strip of wood holds temperature with resistance (8)
  • 11. Part I’m expecting somewhat for a moment (4)
  • 15. River and mountain range, part of countryside (5,4)
  • 17. Paired in role with boring person, reins ecstasy (9)
  • 18. Terrible fraud led movement (8)
  • 20. Display power in part (4)
  • 21. Element of deformed sine curve on the outside (7)
  • 22. Bird sounds like seal (6)
  • 24. Sharp rings — old item used in fortune-telling (5)
  • 25. In retrospect, odd admitting expression of surprise getting old coin (5)
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