The Hindu Crossword No. 2740

Solution No. 2739

May 25, 2013 04:53 pm | Updated 09:04 pm IST

Across

5 Some in opposition secretly follow taxi I catch (6,7)

8 A table in a train, say (6)

9 Animal in area - tent abandoned (8)

10 Eats in Lemnos hotel(4)

11 Practical person’s grim past at camp (10)

13 Point of land facing tornado? It’s hard to say (6,7)

15 Desert deal possibly in the frame (10)

17 Shrewd tramp, not married (4)

18 Stephano crashed carriage (8)

20 Artist losing knight in game (6)

21 Family magazine disagreed, strangely, with others around (7,6)

Down

1 Mother runs with ghastly hat on in race (8)

2 What could be done with me about choice of pseudonym?(3,2,5)

3 Touch a bottom? Almost (4)

4 Really popular female turn (2,4)

5 Who might supply our best stamps? (13)

6 Nondescript figure, to a smaller extent (13)

7 Box of valuables found in wreckage of usherette’s car (8,5)

12 Fern’s first musical (10)

14 Which dear French PM? (8)

16 Gloomy pub in Scottish town (6)

19 Exposed old writer (4)

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