The Hindu Crossword 12272

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Across

• 1. Award to model employee of embassy (8)
• 5. Bird that is inexperienced (6)
• 9. Jack, with false alibi on road, is a habitual prisoner (8)
• 10. Onset marred by principally riotous pelter (6)
• 12. Play group's fling (4)
• 13. Write old record first obtained from one studying science of prison management (10)
• 15. Fine, more competent story-teller (6)
• 17. Ship officer's extra payment Poles switched (5)
• 20. Dishonest person's castles — two of them (5)
• 21. Young Scotsman has capital doubled — he is one who manages clubs (6)
• 24. Film shooting workers arrived: with artist and reluctant mate (6,4)
• 27. Tiny bit recalled from chat oilman put out (4)
• 29. Key animal's get-away (6)
• 30. Southern holidaymaker is one who takes off (8)
• 31. Illness of great many in Asian peninsula (6)
• 32. Worried banker admits short man — a railway worker (8)

Down

• 1. Discourage half-dead, disheartened juvenile at court (6)
• 2. Is inquisitive about principally tantric temple official (6)
• 3. Spheres of old royal billing section (4)
• 4. A couple of leading stars drop out of sequence in lofty home (5)
• 6. Excel in away party (5)
• 7. Relative's violent strike, without right, is most perverted (8)
• 8. Resonant hit by a cricket batsman might ___ ___ for a cricket batsman (4,4)
• 11. Passionate eminence free (6)
• 14. Daughter's boat unlit (4)
• 16. Put in place upstart army officer at end of fence (6)
• 17. Spilling point? (4)
• 18. Say I yell for a treat (3,5)
• 19. Zany wrap around head of society is measureless (8)
• 22. Twice take care of the final details of cheerleader's prop (3-3)
• 23. Tram shudders and takes on the dowager (6)
• 25. Ruler paid out fast (5)
• 26. Contributor omits female performer (5)
• 28. Go under kitchen fixture (4)

Published - March 23, 2018 12:05 am IST