The Hindu Crossword No. 2645

Solution No. 2644

July 30, 2011 03:21 pm | Updated 07:48 pm IST

Across

1 Win and celebrate (7)

5 Popular - word describing one caretaker (7)

9 Report coarse players (9)

10 Awkward drunk (5)

11 Commercial outlet in period before Christmas (6)

12 Viceroy, first to knock male club that’s disreputable (7)

14 Poisonous plant, British, brought in by her boy (4,11)

16 Columbian one, one drunk very rarely (4,2,1,4,4)

19 A giant, swine holding queue back (7)

20 Say name of Island (6)

23 Love huge Greek character (5)

24 Not connected by marriage, a Parisian’s told (9)

25 Swing - net added to facility, reportedly (7)

26 Where youngsters play could make one spit, perhaps (7)

Down

1 Punch’s dog in play about bishop (4)

2 Appropriate batting line-up (2,5)

3 Fly military aircraft across Germany and Spain (5)

4 Sadness shown by audience coming from play (10,5)

5 Saying last rites, talk so differently (2,5,3,5)

6 Main part, perhaps, I retell to comic (5,4)

7 Is lying in light rough that’s deceiving (7)

8 Old French president needing hand with job (10)

13 Rejected, we hear, in every part (10)

15 A new chair vandalised, and crockery? (9)

17 Yorkshire river passing over a large crater (7)

18 Dance on stage, saving energy (3-4)

21 Ready to drop a couple of lines home (3,2)

22 This may turn up? Correct (4)

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