The Hindu Crossword 12121

Published - September 25, 2017 12:05 am IST

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Across

  • 1. Daring to let slip initial view about outdated superstition (3,5,4)
  • 8. Narrow alley town bound ultimately (4)
  • 9. Better half or a mom, entertaining characters briefly (3,1,6)
  • 11. King after king inheriting first-class/special title (6)
  • 12. Heartless, the painful profession of education (8)
  • 14. As a wild animal, I live by ... (4)
  • 16. ... element of ideology, filling but hard (7)
  • 18. Fellow beating it, edgy and nervous (7)
  • 19. Units of pressure and size say (4)
  • 22. Wicket secured, run rate pulled back to a strangle (8)
  • 23. Act as a secretary? One would to make money (2,4)
  • 24. Squeaky clean room, ambient temperature in a resort (5,5)
  • 26. Biblical book character ultimately belonging to another age (4)
  • 27. Perhaps a church body's mean position (6,2,4)

Down

  • 2. Veggie garden is fly-free (5,6)
  • 3. Extravagant fare on top of wedding cake (5)
  • 4. Truth is extremely constraining thing (6)
  • 5. Minutes after going to North America maiden ties the knot right away (9)
  • 6. Ability to hurl weapon (3)
  • 7. Rubbish a myth as false (2,3)
  • 10. Number of years pursuing ENT? (6)
  • 13. Placing emphasis on accepting love is being human (4,7)
  • 15. Station wagon say entering race, turned over (6,3)
  • 17. Translating it, a nomad at heart (6)
  • 20. Alternative word describing eccentric individual primarily (6)
  • 21. Fluid tar be distilled periodically for capacity measurement (5)
  • 23. A pursuer to appear with a flower (5)
  • 25. Can midget be short? (3)
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