Solutions to THC#9729

Across

6 Worker’s words of resignation to maistry at last in times gone by (9)ANTIQUITY

7 She may cry “Uncle!” as stage head leaves Scene I in disarray (5)NIECE

10 Hindu leader also recalled taunt (4)HOOT

11 No warden he – replaced without delay (4,3,3)NOW AND HERE

12 A medical officer almost awake and randy (7)AMOROUS

13 Front part of carriage, yet moving, threatening to collapse (7)

14 At school, small section in marked improvement (7)

17 Inspiration for musician with repute falling off after end of note (7)

21 Started job sorting out things in a museum (6,4)OBJETS D'ART

22 In favour of first-class meeting places (4)

23 Call bumpkin exchanging 1000 for 500 (5)YODEL

24 In no port I discharged black wine (5,4)PINOT NOIR

Down

1 Parasite worn-out in custody of pious maiden (7)PINWORM

2 Rope for artist? (7)PAINTER

3 What the aged once had but cannot boast of any longer (12)YOUTHFULNESS

4 Its call has to be answered periodically (6)NATURE

5 Antelope has young goat turning up twice (3-3)

8 Small farm frequently goes after credit (5)CROFT

9 Acts of getting accustomed to perverse Haitians’ bout (12)HABITUATIONS

15 Painter Picasso or Poet Neruda (5)PABLO

16 Gardening tool, small, the German retrieved (6)WEEDER

18 Master has Oriental fellows to destroy international leader (7)

19 Scope of original six lodged in cathedral stall (7)

20 Female friends in France extremely loth to starve (6)FAMISH

Solutions to THC # 9499 (first go)

Across

8 Under no circumstances, an odd boy made is nervous (4,2,4,4)

9 Town is the starting point in India’s capital (6)

10 Pal has a strange remedy for a close relationship (8)

11 Soundly supervises in a foreign country (8)OVERSEAS

13 Bears a design to wear away (6)ABRASE

14 Break the hollowed-out space (6)

16 Holy man can form an English attitude (6)STANCE

19 Perfect place to bend the cover in Iowa (6)UTOPIA

21 Invisible creatures born to an unusual cat, each covering the side of the road (8)BACTERIA

23 One who scouts the way ahead for a group (8)

24 North-east worker head is the one in to be a freshman (6)NEWBIE

26 Did three get her to experiment the intensive interrogation? (3,5,6)THE THIRD DEGREE

Down

1 Additionally, a large room covering an English priest is taken up (8)MOREOVER

2 Take a secret look in the gym record (4)

3 Official to trap the politician in anger (6)

4 Good exercise for the sailor before the third treatment of the fat (7)

5 Animal has the skill to cover the current cloudy lens (8)

6 Aversion to bar her once maybe (10)ABHORRENCE

7 Takes in to note the short time in the notices (6)

12 Get back to cure the troubled in Peru with progressive speed (10)RECUPERATE

15 Time period taken to almost drill in the triangular surface area (8)

17 Called forth the Spanish in charge of the wrong diet (8)ELICITED

18 Push out to adjust our debt (7)OBTRUDE

20 Excited, so to speak having received specific instruction (6)TAUGHT

22 Horse ride in a Tuscan territory (6)CANTER

25 Take up the uncooked layer of the product (4)WARE (?)

Solutions to The Hindu Crossword 9496

Across

1 Confused opera piper led in a neat manner (5-3,5)APPLE-PIE ORDER

8 Father turns back for a respite to order the first course of a meal (9)APPETISER

9 Actions taken on legal documents (5)DEEDS

10 Plain artist has one caught in anger (7)

12 South Island has the main kind of monkey (6)SIMIAN

14 Fruit drink for a crowd of people (5)

16 Mammals measure up to twenty incomplete squares (4)ELKS

19 Head nurse to copy the back side of the neck (4)NAPE

20 Born in Alabama on Tuesday, an explorer gets a large bird (9)

21 Leader in charge of the ceiling decoration (4)

22 Cast perform some parts of the play (4)ACTS

25 Subjects of study in software assignments (5)

27 Jade in to last for long in the space station (6)

29 Scholarly king on the little horse (7)

32 Emperor protects a wild ass (5)

33 People not present have seen a best form (9)ABSENTEES

34 Real speedy tax developed in a worse manner (13)EXASPERATEDLY

Down

2 Leader’s short speech to boost confidence (3,4)PEP TALK

3 Subsequently — an unpunctual monarch (5)LATER

4 Mounted up the lady on the side of a pram (6)

5 Royal Navy after each to work hard for money (4)EARN

6 Rhode Island covers a notice on single line segments (5)RADII

7 Welcome celebrities on a coloured rug (3,6)RED CARPET

8 Have enough of an unopened specimen for analysis (5)AMPLE

11 In charge of the oriental snake in the vessel (7)

12 Talk in a friendly way to a quiet animal (7)

13 People in South Africa have an organization for the very intelligent (5)MENSA

15 Loosen the odd gunny twines (5)

17 A double for an actor (4,5)LOOK ALIKE

18 Disrespectful German soldier is in to request (5)

23 Hide the fact from the commander in a clean manner (7)

24 Borders of a liner around a fish (5)

26 Gangster to request before a state (6)ALASKA

28 Strong desires from four gestures (5)URGES

30 Girl terribly inane (5)ANNIE

31 Losing heart to sculpt the hollow enclosure (4)CAGE

Solutions to THC # 9363 (First attempt)

Across

 1 Heat treatment to get rid of bugs (14)

 8 Place visible from Anantnag purely by chance (6)NAGPUR

 9 An investor’s hope (8)INTEREST

11 Singing at Xmas, a profession that captures the heart of Jerome (9)

12 Fertilizer from Goa — new, superior variety (5)

13 An intellectual to incite the chief (7)

15 Shutters for a shuteye (7)

17 One who threw out English conqueror (7)

19 Some music that can daze unexpectedly (7)

21 Devastation caused by a village officer in the House of Commons (5)HAVOC

23 Show of anger, a feature of Deepavali (9)

25 The chap you reportedly call is enriching the soil (8)

26 Go there and do some restoration (6)

27 Old-fashioned, like one holding up a newspaper? (6,3,5)

Down

 1 Self-assurance that made a Greek god suffer pain (7)

 2 Gur, as refined, is a sweet thing (5)SUGAR

 3 Bullet that is new becomes buoyant (9)EBULLIENT

 4 Hairstyle of one unmarried going around capital of Hungary (7)

 5 Object that is a part of the earth in general (5)

 6 Musical drama? No, it spells out some work in the theatre (9)OPERATION

 7 Cricket matches around Oxford University are very unpleasant (6)ODIOUS

10 Flier making an offer, that’s about right (4)

14 Complaint that upsets even Craig (9)GRIEVANCE

16 A grant to stop women suffering start of trauma (9)

17 Disinter the one-time philosopher of Scotland (6)

18 Well-mannered but showing anger about penalty (7)REFINED

19 Treatment for a priest in France (4)

20 Heavenly ladies like Tilottama perhaps (7)APSARAS

22 A dog, bit of a Rottweiler, separates upset policeman and military officer (5)

24 The kingdom of a genuine head of men (5)

Solutions to THC # 9348

Across

 1 Periodical supply of ammunition may be expected from here! (8)

 5 Strength to a male fowl (6)

 9 Cursory glance: fail to notice if parts are shifted (4,4)

10 Miser, upset without a bit of money, to boil (6)simmer

12 Wrestling with problem coming to nothing (4)sumo

13 One month, a father in India, extremely terrible, ordered: “Behead!” (10)decapitate

15 Closet accessory may hold a coat (6)

17 Cut down on a dried fruit (5)

20 Furnish out of pique? (5)

21 State Ruth is snobbish? (6)

24 What a magician would do to get the audience’s attention (4,1,5)

27 Plant from the Cho yard (4)

29 Not enough of a clue (6)

30 Hint: a sort of apparel (8)

31 One with an eye for pine leaf (6)

32 Next to a radio announcer, a copper (8)

Down

 1 Annoy spies on top of tier (6)

 2 Sad to hover within the limits of Guduvancherry (6)gloomy

 3 Move rapidly to menagerie at top of

mountain (4)

 4 Relative first to emerge in French city (5)

 6 If one has this, one is eliminated from the list of suspects (5)alibi

 7 Man put my order in one’s ear (8)tympanum

 8 One with selling propositions, no doubt (8)

11 Subordinate bureaucrat offers weekend

music (6)

14 The French politician is one to provide light (4)

16 Irritable German odd and extremely

pushy (6)

17 Typist losing way and wandering?

A matter for regret (4)pity

18 A film villain has some on the side (8)

19 Mega smug about what only fools will perform (4,4)

22 Something to pay a girl in residence (6)

23 Mourn for the French fellows on

edge of tragedy (6)

25 March ends when this starts (5)april

26 Having crow’s-feet (5)

28 Eager to elevate the singer (4)

The Hindu Crossword 9345 Solutions (first go...)

Across

 8 The act of directing the executive officers of a government (14)ADMINISTRATION

 9 Alberta turns to make a mistake going back with large container (6)

10 Left one with wrong sense of permissible legal documents (8)LICENSES

11 Return aid to be set back for metabolic disorders (8)DIABETES

13 Subjects of newspaper copies (6)

14 Largely set her — the Jewish queen of Persia (6)ESTHER

16 Main head editor for one article situated in the middle (6)MEDIAN

19 Initially, leave a will yet entitled rightly for an attorney (6)LAWYER

21 Church prayer for blockage of an artery (8)

23 Darkest colour covering for the head of a bad guy (5,3)BLACK HAT

24 Seasoning was a second grade head item (6)

26 Bend in a pung urn altered making it operational and ready to use (2,2,3,7)BE UP AND RUNNING

Down

 1 Rap back a different side of heaven (8)PARADISE

 2 Oddly get mail read from an Islamic ruler (4)

 3 A Norwegian head king let a piece of jewellery (6)ANKLET

 4 Futile purpose for tennis player inside the United States (7)USELESS

 5 Learn by repetition the customary way of operation (8)

 6 Saint and saint unwell, coming to a complete halt (10)STANDSTILL

 7 Company here to stick together (6)COHERE

12 Take a shower at the end of the day to almost escape from an underwater diving vessel (10)BATHYSCAPE

15 Trig a hen towards a fastening electrical equipment (8)EARTHING

17 Son turns to Lincoln back as General Secretary for feeding sacks of animals (8)

18 Loudly cry tune for a hundred years (7)CENTURY

20 Like back from travel even exemplary leaders put he to rest (6)

22 Social gesture for Bishop to pay what is due (6)BOWING

25 Cut off the brightness for the lower leg (4)

Solutions to THC # 9211 (back in the game)

Across

 1 Happened fortuitously for the new engineer to be in Chad (7) CHANCED [cha n ce d]

 5 Call at public house for gymnastic exercises (7) BARBELL [bar bell]

 9 Henry resides in a nice appropriate place (5) NICHE [nic H e]

10 A melancholy old schoolmaster might put his capital into them (4,5) BLUE CHIPS

11 Steer many out to perform a bone surgery (6) RESECT [steer c]

12 They do not take one’s own, but others’ issues (8) ADOPTERS

14 Son returns quarter of loaded cargo (5) LADEN [son=lad + quarter=north-east/ne returned]

15 Nearly set wrong in a serious way (9) EARNESTLY [nearly set]

18 Lost at sea? (3,6) OFF COURSE

20 Men from city holidaying out west (5) DUDES

22 Standard ideas revised in Garden of Eden (8) PARADISE [standard=par + ideas]

24 Engineer accepts different role for the West Indian of Mixed Spanish blood (6) CREOLE [ce role]

26 I dealt one to myself at just the right moment (5,4) IDEAL TIME [i dealt one/i myself/me]

27 Eyed impertinently at the French with the dog around (5) OGLED [le dog]

28 Support America having stain all over (7) SUSTAIN [us stain]

29 General pardon for little woman brandishing Sten (7) AMNESTY [amy sten]

Down

 1 As a vocalist she’s low in the register (9) CONTRALTO

 2 Charge brought against Bill by many employed by him (7) ACCUSED [ac c used]

 3 Sound increase in score displayed round about the finish (9) CRESCENDO [score c end]

 4 Many bet foolishly only to be in obligation (4) DEBT [d bet]

 5 Sure sign they’ll be big hits (10) BOUNDARIES

 6 Briefly go over the main points (5) RECAP

 7 Noteworthy pit surrounded by another ten (7) EMINENT [mine ten]

 8 Fails to be successful (5) LOSES

13 Unhappiness caused by a slump (10) DEPRESSION [slump/unhappiness]

16 Duck below the bedcover (9) EIDERDOWN

17 The past twentyfour hours (9) YESTERDAY

19 They are the agriculturists (7) FARMERS

21 Scribbles but does included old camouflage (7) DOODLES [does old]

22 Rises quietly in order to peep into something private (5) PRIES [rise p]

23 A Greek letter on alluvial deposit at the river mouth (5) DELTA

25 I’m at South American flat topped hill (4) MESA [me SA]