The Hindu Crossword 12535

January 29, 2019 12:05 am | Updated 12:05 am IST

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Across

  • 1. Favourite vehicle? Original Wilton (6)
  • 4. Try redirecting 1st, 5th, 10th bits out of a narration (8)
  • 9. Country game, played as is (6)
  • 10. Worrying heart scare — bases eroded into inflammations (8)
  • 12. Primarily, the position of a lead climber? (5,3)
  • 13. Flies off with this confused, rich woman, leaving man behind (6)
  • 15. Bomb is undug, keep checking at regular intervals (4)
  • 16. Block wild fornication in the absence of love (10)
  • 19. They cover up speed bars broken around break of dawn (10)
  • 20. Davenport yet gives up prematurely (4)
  • 23. Cool season (6)
  • 25. They can welcome us in afternoon to dorms, possibly (8)
  • 27. Mostly evade duty — off-time? (5,3)
  • 28. England quits about festering conflict (6)
  • 29. Son to take off loose outfit (8)
  • 30. Cleaners needing right tools for plastering (6)

Down

  • 1. Blind dog's silly antic cut short (7)
  • 2. Remain affected starting out, took a fill again (9)
  • 3. Banished old capital's retrograde without hospital (6)
  • 5. Lead priest's led astray — unfounded dilemma (4)
  • 6. Not fashionable — harping about chips' designs (8)
  • 7. Get rid of some upholstery (5)
  • 8. Nervous cousin calls husband in for support (7)
  • 11. Broad coverage (7)
  • 14. Beard rope with ends trimmed — that adds grace to the face! (7)
  • 17. Cold Violet is a criminal (9)
  • 18. Top cluesmith, an unexpected winner? (8)
  • 19. Happens to be ahead of trends (7)
  • 21. Demands of setters? (7)
  • 22. Hollow one shifting sides in good game of chance (6)
  • 24. Expert followers imbibing the Bible (5)
  • 26. Pollutes some water available here? (4)
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