The Hindu Crossword 11886

Published - December 24, 2016 02:51 am IST

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Across

  • 1. Fouls in race by dishonest society scrubbers (5,6)
  • 9. Asafoetida ruled out – it's goose egg (7)
  • 10. Is inclined to be in church to purify (7)
  • 11. Gosh! These dismissed the fliers (5)
  • 12. Sing about each district magistrate being routine (9)
  • 13. Croat resettles in south Indian city (5)
  • 15. Bygone Beatles classic (9)
  • 18. Inset: Huns in makeshift shelter (6,3)
  • 21. South African rodent, playing hard to get, turns up (5)
  • 22. Protester to turn down relatives coming back (9)
  • 24. Regretful feeling over road crash (5)
  • 26. Create crop (7)
  • 27. Fighter intended to announce suffering (7)
  • 28. Items strewn about Parliament (11)

Down

  • 1. Excellent! Nearly excellent to have one quality that's desirable in a photograph (4-5)
  • 2. Loiter around losing nothing out of liquid measure (5)
  • 3. Mostly spectacular, Union Government's focal point (9)
  • 4. Drunk lay disheartened in a constricting way (7)
  • 5. Insects not originating affliction (7)
  • 6. Son and daughter besiege writer while away (5)
  • 7. Limitless puns please in a cruel manner (8)
  • 8. Cad's command to dog (4)
  • 14. Is this money always on the move, coming and going? (8)
  • 16. Expect different leader coming up as special case (9)
  • 17. Solver, hoodlum's leaving Georgia as juvenile (9)
  • 19. Vandals remove top of fortifications and get hard (7)
  • 20. Set one's sights and capture top-class military leader (4,3)
  • 22. Revolutionary leader, on a target, is engrossed (4)
  • 23. Native American wife's endless protest (5)
  • 25. Hail red Ford and Dodge (5)
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