The Hindu Crossword No. 2731

Solution No. 2730

March 23, 2013 03:40 pm | Updated 03:40 pm IST

Across

1 Quick exercises after concert (6)

4 Child’s play? (5,3)

10 Member blowing hard, trumpet player (9)

11 Behave badly at college after work (3,2)

12 Children’s author and poet shortly to be given extremely excellent time (7)

13 Mimic one friend eating Italian (7)

14 A careless seamstress may forget her train of thought? (4,3,6)

17 What a child may have to wear even on train (or coach)? (6,7)

21 In conflict with commander this month (7)

22 Crow put him off? That’s about right (7)

24 Is it possible for a learner to navigate this? (5)

25 Guns lay by sacks (3,6)

26 Average speed on way (8)

27 Workmen’s tools left in crooked spire (6)

Down

1 Work willingly with others in activity ahead of dance (4,4)

2 Shell daughter removed from window (5)

3 Cool case (7)

5 Condiment game colonel put underneath tongue (7,7)

6 Inspect burst main feeding SW river (7)

7 Drunken do up at pit ended (3,4,2)

8 Quietly he interrupts young relative (6)

9 Mainly intended to reach those people top star harassed (3,3,4,4)

15 Supported American coming in injured (9)

16 Force when entering Tennessee port, leaderless (8)

18 Boxer’s second name’s King (7)

19 First home, one with tail wagging (7)

20 Powder copper put in malt extract (6)

23 Children’s author’s line seen in pit (5)

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