The Hindu Crossword 12573

March 14, 2019 12:05 am | Updated 12:05 am IST

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Across

  • 1. Clothes are an impediment to lift — direction given (8)
  • 5. Doctor uses another kind of gel (6)
  • 10. Level set, must catch rodent (7)
  • 11. I handle unstable stuff that's gone into the lungs (7)
  • 12. Pries out from cruel exploiters, or is it praise? (5)
  • 13. It shows you the amount of work done — so, setter's on a short stint (9)
  • 14. Tablet from Kurukshetra, perhaps (12)
  • 18. They're part of computer tables, protect them first (6,6)
  • 21. Spoke right, actually (9)
  • 23. A timeless characteristic on top, part of our menu (5)
  • 24. Removal — it's time to be confident (7)
  • 25. Child's play — excluded old money (7)
  • 26. Required to be born, died later abandoning one (6)
  • 27. Henry loses heart, tries a reform — displaying frenzy (8)

Down

  • 1. Woman in action — stops leakage (6)
  • 2. Not common occurrence — giving right to replace a child (6)
  • 3. Song's uplifting and others join in, they regularly give it back (9)
  • 4. Two deliveries — went into maddening traffic (6-2-6)
  • 6. Soar high, morning after with old Irish characters (5)
  • 7. I must commute, assuming cab aggregator gets compensation (8)
  • 8. Terrible ordeal for party in land of opportunity (8)
  • 9. "Dylan, his legend" recreated by one person alone (6-8)
  • 15. Spooner's take on what the doctor ordered for the bird (9)
  • 16. Small fly on scintilla (8)
  • 17. Cattle handler regularly seen behind the fence (8)
  • 19. Shrink's humour has female following (6)
  • 20. Has stopped short of impounding a vehicle in the capital (6)
  • 22. Keen to see law allowing universal suffrage finally (5)
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