Solution will appear inThe Hindu In School datedJune 22, 2012. Solution No. 10832

Across

1 Osculatory party game (8,5)

8 Elizabethan man's jacket

(worn with hose) (7)

9 Places to rear the young? (5)

10 Composer of Carmina

Burana, d. 1982 (4)

11 Confused (3,2,3)

13 Picturesque (6)

14 Agree (6)

17 One leapt (anag) (8)

19 Man leading prayers in a

mosque (4)

21 Vulgarly bright (5)

22 Australia's bush country (7)

24 Treat with undue

familiarity (4,9)

Down

1 Footprint — home of one's

own (slang) (3)

2 Fluffy egg dish (7)

3 Kind of whisky (4)

4 Irritate — weed (6)

5 Large marsupial (8)

6 Removes from office (5)

7 Osculatory greetings

service (9)

10 Hunt goals (anag) —

offensive (9)

12 Unfaithful (8)

15 Mildly bitter aperitif, often

drunk with soda (7)

16 Self-assurance (6)

18 Lorry (5)

20 Asterisk (4)

23 1969 Ken Loach film (3)