The Hindu Crossword 11789

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Updated - September 30, 2016 06:58 pm IST

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Across

  • 6. Old chap overcome by desire for female (8)
  • 9. Measure of rectangular area reduced in breadth (6)
  • 10. Letter I objectively second (4)
  • 11. Dancing ballet etc. involves hospital risk (4,3,3)
  • 12. Standard newspaper headline (6)
  • 14. Leaked video essentially copied from DVD (7)
  • 15. Women need beauty for a change in confidence? (7,3,3,2)
  • 18. Of stretching decades on French island (7)
  • 20. Bleeding heart lacking confidence to provide protection (6)
  • 22. Scotch is why talk slurs after minutes (4,6)
  • 23. Relaxed end of week chore? (4)
  • 24. Cry about being taken in by a deception (6)
  • 25. Range of hills rising ruggedly, protecting India at large (8)

Down

  • 1. Fine to lower head from a boxing blow (4)
  • 2. Pay out exactly for bus rides (8)
  • 3. Excess that is around muscles (6)
  • 4. Hankers less for inner clothing (10)
  • 5. Arbitrarily cut short mandatory ruling (2,6)
  • 7. Home game ringing the end of a series (5)
  • 8. Oh going about working daily, main issue in the period between Thanksgiving and New Year (7,6)
  • 13. Sometimes negative article gets stick at first? Naturally (3,3,4)
  • 16. Access to transport (8)
  • 17. Relative having cool and singular sort of vehicle (8)
  • 19. Without a name, cruel to place in a tomb (6)
  • 21. Regular brain schtik makes one sage (5)
  • 23. Follow narration of story (4)
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