The Hindu Crossword 12232

Published - February 05, 2018 12:05 am IST

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Across

  • 7. Roughly push and move it (6)
  • 8. Military exercises used to be held around German base, out of sight (3,5)
  • 9. Marine slogan stoking fires, no ordinary poem (6,2)
  • 10. Crust of similar nature on Carbon-22, characteristically (6)
  • 11. Far-off lands essentially missing the post (5)
  • 12. Insignificant note in record (6)
  • 14. Former privy chamber official, managing loo for monarch emptying bowels, gets to inner circle (5,2,3,5)
  • 17. Measure, keeping record to testify (6)
  • 18. Far-flung post boxes mark heavy footfall (5)
  • 22. Measure from cheek to leg (6)
  • 23. Special brew in a university organised spread (semi &lit) (5,3)
  • 24. Large closed vehicle, horse-drawn, so coach? (8)
  • 25. Serpentine river doubling back, one in the wild (6)

Down

  • 1. Old type of tablets no cure, if having problems with sex (9)
  • 2. Principal's steady, softly relieving boy (6)
  • 3. Children of Israel from twelve members, collectively related? (5)
  • 4. Handout with check and mate? On the contrary, lured out of cover (8)
  • 5. Outrageous letting cost run high, care not regularly taken (4,4)
  • 6. Judge not using power, copper possibly made an ass (5)
  • 8. Work discipline — hit and hope pains compel better results? (4,4,5)
  • 13. Fellow men burning to participate in say, merry month of ceremony (9)
  • 15. Gold's undoing extremely likely without gold standard in the US (3,5)
  • 16. Rival circulating note on winning by proxy (8)
  • 19. Bad-tempered, create an acidic impression through heartless tyranny (6)
  • 20. Story in book abridged in another leaf (5)
  • 21. Medium for accessing information, reportedly shabby gypsy (2-3)
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