The Hindu Crossword 12270

Updated - March 21, 2018 07:42 am IST

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Across

  • 1. Actor he paints badly (8)
  • 5. Method is said to be crude (6)
  • 10. Song in basic Italian tune (9)
  • 11. Everybody's time to play! (5)
  • 12. Before a meal? Grace! (6)
  • 13. Odd code, odd protocol (7)
  • 14. Later settled in court, crushing defeat (8)
  • 15. Seal top of the cabinet (6)
  • 18. Intense fire raging outside, 5 dead (6)
  • 20. Right, insincere heroic talk, basically it's hyperbole (8)
  • 22. Ballet position one's in with ease (7)
  • 25. Old students from university in Milan maybe (6)
  • 27. He's a bibilical character, a slave (5)
  • 28. Anyhow, meant to keep correct change (9)
  • 29. Best place in France, small town basically (6)
  • 30. Repeated it time after time to the editor (8)

Down

  • 1. Take up just one instrument (4)
  • 2. Fungus that's rare perhaps (9)
  • 3. Nobleman in a boat (7)
  • 4. A very old drink from the South containing primarily citrus fruits (8)
  • 6. Visual movement in gemstone (7)
  • 7. Run a machine without starting the spinning device (5)
  • 8. I'm acting strange, in the end turning out to be mysterious (9)
  • 9. Main element (4)
  • 14. Very small shift — infer what? (5-4)
  • 16. Strict line taken by hospital department (9)
  • 17. The space is shabby and most shoddy (8)
  • 19. Setter, seated bemusedly, thinks (7)
  • 21. Loud noise coming from below after the cut (7)
  • 23. Flower, one in demand, it's going up (5)
  • 24. Style adopted by some landowners (4)
  • 26. Detailed analysis for a poker game (4)
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