The Hindu Crossword 12089

Updated - August 18, 2017 07:36 am IST

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Across

  • 1. Pop off to participate in race — it's not hard (6)
  • 4. Inexperienced girl ran into criminal (8)
  • 10. Control the others outside school (9)
  • 11. Bird, first from England to go around the world (5)
  • 12. Incentives limit us, unfortunately (7)
  • 13. They are involved in rows every day (7)
  • 14. Understand it could be anything from 0 to 9 (5)
  • 15. How to make taco for a traitor? (8)
  • 18. Practice on vehicle, for the ultimate ride (8)
  • 20. Like to arrange one's home, say (5)
  • 23. Unprofessional friend in a city of ancient Mesopotamia (7)
  • 25. Shake three times, adding a drop of milk inside (7)
  • 26. Intensify beginning of rapid change in India, after leader is removed (5)
  • 27. Pant, tired, worn and scared (9)
  • 28. Drinking cups in brown, dark, blue, and a shade of silver (8)
  • 29. Setter and the lady had become engaged (6)

Down

  • 1. Evergreen tree finally dies…perhaps it could provide warmth (8)
  • 2. Coup — essentially, a covert operation for removing leader (7)
  • 3. Leg spin? (9)
  • 5. What you do while playing in the beach to get experience (3,4,4,3)
  • 6. Stranger from revolutionary Communist party (5)
  • 7. Following a treatment for amnesia, son dies — it could be a life-threatening condition (7)
  • 8. Maid from bar near small US city (6)
  • 9. Reprinted items could be understood wrongly (14)
  • 16. Auditor's notices to cashier for an amicable settlement (5-4)
  • 17. Gave evidence — "Had to win cricket match by fraud eventually" (8)
  • 19. Daughter perhaps runs away to get happiness (7)
  • 21. Back in Calais, sailor gets a shower and time to rest (7)
  • 22. Struggling actor wins Oscar ultimately — it's an incentive for performance (6)
  • 24. Swelling a bit, excitedly made out (5)
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