The Hindu Crossword 12225

Updated - January 27, 2018 11:46 am IST

Published - January 27, 2018 12:05 am IST

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Across

  • 8. African gentleman possesses spectacles (4)
  • 9. Cuban drum found in Silicon Gallery (5)
  • 10. The Queen's holding you and me in the jug (4)
  • 11. Youngster lost support and got nothing for ass (6)
  • 12. Surgeon's musical performance near mountain (8)
  • 13. Run for it and prepare eggs, perhaps, by mixing contents, and stirring while cooking (8)
  • 15. The French accommodation is hidden (6)
  • 17. Ivy, for example, is a snake, perhaps (7)
  • 19. Oceanic disturbances result in snow (7)
  • 22. Mummy's resting place reveals talisman (6)
  • 24. Gangster's without companion, without headgear (2,6)
  • 26. Example: Indian position (8)
  • 28. Clergyman's average descendant (6)
  • 30. Gents take a turn to get bill of fare (4)
  • 31. Cut in between a couple of earls and run away (5)
  • 32. Soldiers return carrying European tree (4)

Down

  • 1. Rent to Royal Navy (4)
  • 2. Car is reversed in anger after initial defeat in speed contest (4,4)
  • 3. Beetle's vehicle? A bicycle, at first (6)
  • 4. Advani and Trump's game? Throwing noose to capture king and queen (7)
  • 5. Servant lost an eye, I hear, at washroom in London station (8)
  • 6. In Bangalore, pasta is grub (6)
  • 7. Legendary musician narrowly escaped royal ostracism in the beginning (4)
  • 14. About a cubic centimetre flowed back around one rivet initially (5)
  • 16. Maharani nonchalantly displays sheer fabric (5)
  • 18. Prolonged term of previous nurse's education (8)
  • 20. Hoping medicine has little weight (8)
  • 21. Former PM's disastrous romance (7)
  • 23. Sort of rustic fruit (6)
  • 25. Secret alphabet represents nothing (6)
  • 27. Require maiden name by beginning of December (4)
  • 29. Inaugurate round corral (4)
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