The Hindu Crossword 12685

July 23, 2019 12:05 am | Updated 12:05 am IST

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Across

  • 1. Seize endless photographs featuring hot visual images (8)
  • 5. Soldiers about to chase man in float – a terrorist (6)
  • 10. United in passionate love, turned emotional (7)
  • 11. Worm in lane, possibly dead (7)
  • 12. One stealing undergarments finally abandons strange fetish (5)
  • 13. Obnoxious heels in bar cause a commotion (5,4)
  • 14. Turning frog into prince! Extremely far out paranormal ability (12)
  • 18. What a car assembly worker might do to treat one vulnerable cruelly? (3,3,4,2)
  • 21. Brutal raid organised to capture a criminal by noon (9)
  • 23. Bucket here contains a volatile liquid (5)
  • 24. Disabling scheme to divide Chinese dynasty (7)
  • 25. Bond frames plan to engage in pretence (4-3)
  • 26. Potent in bed having knowledge (6)
  • 27. Upset by director chasing one model in a passage (8)

Down

  • 1. Plot to keep alien in cell (6)
  • 2. Neighbour's endless worry about an inability to act decisively (6)
  • 3. Couple of husbands touring prehistoric castle speak at length (4,5)
  • 4. Tense wife captures king at last in card game (8,6)
  • 6. Scrap after taking bit of umbrage (5)
  • 7. Newsflash – shot at home (8)
  • 8. Fragrant rose given to win heart of beloved (8)
  • 9. What one might be doing after washing's dried up is humiliating (6,4,1,3)
  • 15. Traveller in the train, angrily ignoring husband (9)
  • 16. Record by one medic about plague (8)
  • 17. Taking ale frantically in distress (8)
  • 19. Stop scoundrel about to grab hot woman in front of bar (6)
  • 20. Cheat upset about charge made a speech (6)
  • 22. Bit of unpleasantness disregarded for love in marriage, it could make one cry (5)
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