The Hindu Crossword 11716

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June 02, 2016 01:33 am | Updated September 30, 2016 07:38 pm IST

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Across

  • 8. Metropolitan Police Service headquarters releases northern UK compound (4)
  • 9. Throw away the sap (5)
  • 10. Money making plant or herb (4)
  • 11. Little bear is terrified at first with an artist like Picasso (6)
  • 12. Type of test for which dentist does not use writing instruments (4,4)
  • 13. Queen’s sixth commercial tax officer’s on air, as rescheduled (8)
  • 15. First Europeans join together and come out (6)
  • 17. Elephant litters have initially hazy and distorted shadow (7)
  • 19. Leaves on road with pieces of South African money (7)
  • 22. Sepoy goes back after primary meeting with sighted persons (6)
  • 24. After Yankee left, only chess is played at the famous Scottish lake (4,4)
  • 26. Remix cos mixture for ritual to drive away demons (8)
  • 28. Chief husband is fat (6)
  • 30. Record measuring instrument (4)
  • 31. Goodbye! Die in Australia! (5)
  • 32. Make a gun ready to shoot a male bird (4)

Down

  • 1. Indian government official has bachelor's degree before university started (4)
  • 2. Owned up and let in (8)
  • 3. Journalist dies horribly, without a hint of suffering, on a mountain (6)
  • 4. Reversible German person's furniture (7)
  • 5. Most economical to pack simian in a box (8)
  • 6. Pilgrim pedestrian carries hamper (6)
  • 7. Peruvian civilisation found in Wetaskiwin, Canada (4)
  • 14. Elephant tusk material or ivy compound? (5)
  • 16. & 29 Ask big doc about declaration of the return of the almighty (3,2)
  • 18. Healthcare institution for treatment of a shot lip (8)
  • 20. Declare that an ounce can have new impregnation (8)
  • 21. Spinster's old card game (3,4)
  • 23. He carries bags, O'Henry (6)
  • 25. Law in Central United States about a spiny plant (6)
  • 27. Cross Sam's return – it is celebrated six days before the end of the year (4)
  • 29. See 16 (4)
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