The Hindu Crossword 12451

Published - October 20, 2018 12:05 am IST

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Across

  • 7. Rewrote DIG's manual for a cooked mixed salad (10)
  • 9. Boil yoghurt partially covered with grease (4)
  • 10. Antibiotic, not fully digested, after time's lost at the start (2,6)
  • 11. Conversation returns to the auditor's note in front of an item subject to steeping (3,3)
  • 12. Young man concealing the cut in a small British cottage (5)
  • 13. Knight leaves the Yank's building to dig after internal turmoil in a place of worship (9)
  • 14. Arrest the conservative trapped in a cloudburst with the Oriental (7)
  • 17. Environmental conditions making an apprentice get rid of the wife's jacket material (7)
  • 20. Holy cigar smoked in a state governed by a small exclusive class (9)
  • 22. Connected with Oscar to get entertained by a wind instrument from the east (5)
  • 25. Leaders of the European states considered under Donald's outreach get some African currency (6)
  • 26. Value embedded in a Christmas song on the merry-go-round (8)
  • 27. Cow generating consistent profit? (4)
  • 28. Freed from bacteria and made infertile (10)

Down

  • 1. Graduate upset by a follower getting immersed in an abridged book on a hollow reed (6)
  • 2. Flag a teenager for hiding a gemstone (5)
  • 3. Heavy load carried by a northbound tropical Asian bird from, say, start to finish (7)
  • 4. Strain in a process to box up a pastry (8)
  • 5. Hot one is best handled immediately (6)
  • 6. Confident request sent to the top could deliver delight (8)
  • 8. Crystalline alcohol prepared by dissolving thorium in lemon juice (7)
  • 15. Acts to pull up son after a mine product's reported in the shredded cabbage (8)
  • 16. Room used freely by a rodent (8)
  • 18. Absolution at sea after son leaves to get a Mediterranean dish (7)
  • 19. Airplane pre-boarding requirement making one trade places with an Asian bird (7)
  • 21. Cowboy Oscar replaced by the Oriental lacking social polish (6)
  • 23. Crooked nun excitedly welcoming the first woman ... (6)
  • 24. ... getting benefit from a plant product (5)
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