The Hindu Crossword 12702

August 12, 2019 12:05 am | Updated 12:05 am IST

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Across

  • 1. Bailiff has list of employees (8)
  • 5. State to allow right to education for a group (6)
  • 10. Language of money (7)
  • 11. Put in place a glass to hold a flower... (7)
  • 12. ...for a flower go to the plant (5)
  • 13. Will wine drinking teams refuse? (9)
  • 14. Hijacked, needed right representation (12)
  • 18. One allowed to enter country – it will make it null and void (12)
  • 21. Girl gets a dog back, it's nothing much (9)
  • 23. Cheese crates, sugar coated perhaps (5)
  • 24. Reserved accommodation assumed backward (7)
  • 25. Put off? Force hard into it being tense (7)
  • 26. Glare is less after midnight (6)
  • 27. Spoke about exotic island, and off to another fun place (3,5)

Down

  • 1. Flower – first time girl wore a flower (6)
  • 2. Materials extremely powerful, leading to disease (6)
  • 3. Withstood a lot of wild growth, it's poisonous (9)
  • 4. Red marigold, find it just about average (4,2,8)
  • 6. First to go in the initial phase (5)
  • 7. Ego, separately work on it – it will keep you well groomed (8)
  • 8. Drug taking – a bird's freedom (8)
  • 9. Not taking responsibility for money transaction (7,3,4)
  • 15. Pulls billionaires together, named in parts (9)
  • 16. Tasting rich perhaps beyond a point (8)
  • 17. One against rise, rocky road for a scientist (8)
  • 19. Enthusiastic to shoot, try to get his head (4,2)
  • 20. Power – the French have some stakes (6)
  • 22. Tantalise, like stop/start (5)
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