The Hindu Crossword 12257

March 06, 2018 12:05 am | Updated 12:59 am IST

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Across

  • 7. Resident, possibly having income abroad, departs for Norway (6)
  • 8. Guards in castle switching sides, son without escape route (8)
  • 9. Cooler to join small groups for support (3,5)
  • 10. High praise turning ugly, one losing name (6)
  • 11. Soldier, rapper and rover (5)
  • 12. Pictures came in rolls (6)
  • 14. Groom kept this song for horse racing (3,5,2,5)
  • 17. The last to start coming through in style (6)
  • 18. Language of love — music — cut off (5)
  • 22. Not many shout loudly and fuss (6)
  • 23. Welcome girl writing about boy (4-4)
  • 24. Artist entering high society seen first in line (8)
  • 25. Coarse variety keeps swelling in the middle (6)

Down

  • 1. Prehistoric stones might seal cracks (9)
  • 2. Deliberate sound in field event (6)
  • 3. Arrive with cracking report at university (3,2)
  • 4. Defeat on pitches when not reading them right? (4-4)
  • 5. Boil okra for old husband, mixing cabbage (8)
  • 6. Point when one moves away from prehistoric period (5)
  • 8. Faraway look? Hint: thus got diverted (4,2,7)
  • 13. Character primarily on a mega 'I' trip? (9)
  • 15. Problem child, completely left out of everything (3,5)
  • 16. Public broadcast of system override (8)
  • 19. Sustained by foreign help, sunk South American currency gained (6)
  • 20. Rather silent with progress of time (5)
  • 21. Kind of blue-collared very unskilled worker (5)
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