The Hindu Crossword 12691

July 30, 2019 12:05 am | Updated 12:05 am IST

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Across

  • 1. Wordplay is hard to take advantage of (6)
  • 4. A ball with very small proceeds (8)
  • 10. Scrub bishop filled with filth (7)
  • 11. Fractured season beginning to derail around first of January (7)
  • 12. After six balls, near defeat! (8)
  • 13. Handy fuel wasted by American (6)
  • 15. Exploit group after money (4)
  • 17. Style fest turned into medium for viral propagation in Africa (6,3)
  • 20. Check fraud's caravan (9)
  • 21. Spotted amongst returning brigade yesterday (4)
  • 24. Everyone runs around the day before pre-university course (1,5)
  • 25. Firm overwhelmed by extraordinary income of money (8)
  • 28. Be suspended, having patched up bad clutch (7)
  • 29. Perhaps a very small mark that's red? (7)
  • 30. Awareness to retain differentiator, creating anticipation (8)
  • 31. Cold reduced and fizzled out (6)

Down

  • 1. Renders each version on point (8)
  • 2. In part, snob leverages aristocrat (5)
  • 3. Control ultimately helps one producing spells (6)
  • 5. Physician's patent, say, for medical apparatus? (4)
  • 6. Corrected exactly after commercial by editor (8)
  • 7. Clue fairly complicated? Not Spinner's, precisely! (9)
  • 8. Deal accepts demand draft for hamper (6)
  • 9. Call to embrace theism destroyed by science (9)
  • 14. Steps from affected castes gaining voice (9)
  • 16. Solo needs tightening up of unresolved parts (5,4)
  • 18. Piece together animal insignia missing tail (8)
  • 19. Erudite is dead cute, somehow (8)
  • 22. Cleans up wife's remains (6)
  • 23. Mellow following England's win (6)
  • 26. Beer poured into empty mugs for men (5)
  • 27. Periods – a girl's everyday suffering, basically (4)
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