Hindu Xword 8224

Across

1 Just the possibility of getting an open-air job? (7,6)

8 Stiff drinks served at Wimbledon (7)

9 Put down one's name as a competitor (7) NOMINEE(?)

11 Turn out a fowl for a couple of pounds (6) FOLLOW(?)

13 Box files for chirpy air travellers? (8) SPARROWS

15 A right to claim desert (5)

16 Division of number without a remainder (7)

18 Lad returns to critically examine the malicious gossip (7)

19 Article concerning a name for a girl (5) MEENA

21 Halt or ring Police Department instead (4,4)

23 Supposing the Eastern priest turns up at Italian resort (6)

25 Tried to renovate an American city (7) DETROIT

26 Neither long nor correct to have an eyeglass (7)

28 Gloomy forecasters (8,2,3)

Down

2 Who'd turn the purser out and take his job? (7)PURSUER

3 Get old and rich to somewhat contribute for gold (3)

4 A good looking person serving at table (4)

5 Pale, richly textured cheese (10)

6 He plays his part (5) ACTOR

7 Vehicle to harbour at a covered parking space (7)

8 Impersonal description of a fully automated setup? (11)

10 Distant one I set out for (11)

12 Run in the next race (5)

14 Keep on the beach (4,6)

17 Strip oneself of armour (5)

18 Slip off on a swift motor boat (7)

20 In the middle of the moorland one perceives the lover of Arden (7)

22 There's nothing in landing by parachute to grow weak (5) DROOP

24 A positive sign to be unusually great (4) PLUS

27 An umpire to arbitrate shortly (3)

Hindu Xword 8223

Across

1 Teach how old continental currency heartened the Early English (7) EDUCATE

5 Hard to escape in this situation (7) IMPASSE

10 A nursing nun (6) SISTER

11 Defenceless rams tumbling in met their death (8) DISARMED

12 Female divinity at one time seen in article repeatedly (6) ATHENA

13 Last to include many a woman, it's realised (8) ENCASHED

14 Listen otherwise there is nothing to hear (6) SILENT

15 Provided it was used as a nest by the hen (4,2) LAID ON

18 Dedicated man arranging outside broadcast at the last minute (6) OBLATE

20 Shy about gag made to have long rough and loose hair (6) SHAGGY

23 Mend a dud adaptor, though that's extra (8) ADDENDUM

25 How the prisoner wrote (6) PENNED

26 Check balance before the fall (8)RESTRAIN

27 To charge air, there's art involved at each point (6) AERATE

28 Turn to list — that's made to serve some purpose (7) UTILISE

29 Late for now to turn around to praise excessively (7) ADULATE

Down

2 Splits with daughter and then wanders around (6) DRIFTS

3 The broken heart I can mend, lady (9) CATHERINA

4 Open gallery at the side (7) TERRACE

6 Claim made to us of having skill in expressing harmonious melody (7) MUSICAL

7 Cares for large areas of land (5) ACRES

8 Ordered leeks by the ton, but still a bony figure (8) SKELETON

9 This notice determines VAT coding (13) ADVERTISEMENT

16 Usually, I learn, contrived to conceal information (2,7) IN GENERAL

17 Honour one plunged in depression for being submissive (8) OBEDIENT

19 Arouses affection as he finally listens (7) ENDEARS

21 A dual organised very quietly receives praise (7) APPLAUD

22 Small group prepared to include physical training with energy (6) SEPTET

24 Old lot turn to praise (5)EXTOL

Hindu Xword

Across

1 Confess to having washed before going out (4,5)

6 Make an impression in the Post Office (5)

9 Vietnam once served up heavenly food (5)

10 Darling, pay attention to musical embellishment (5,4)

11 Continued steadfastly by itself against reed destruction (10)

12 Right time to regret (4)

14 Made to devise a new improved version (7)

15 Locked quarter reset anew by copper (7)

17 He is assigned on mail duties (7) POSTMAN

19 An examination question that one cannot answer (7)

20 Chooses to work on the back path (4) OPTS

22 Once favoured by women appreciating a good spread! (10)

25 The simpleton is French so finds a supporter (9) ASSISSTANT

26 A stupid apprentice gets into a cave (5)

27 Scores equal at seven (5) EVENS

28 Inherited from forefathers (9) ANCESTRAL

Down

1 Mash a dish of potatoes! (5)

2 Five go for sermon arranged near trees in muddy swamps (9)

3 Obstruct a few being unwieldy (10)

4 Highbrow with salmonella on the brain (7)

5 Most systematic and bovine creatures set at odds (7)

6 Cook in hot water — like the Irish? (4) BOIL(?)

7 It's early for our friendship to develop (5)

8 Falsely claimed money again for having performed services (9)

13 Recalls dilemma of 150 electors (10) RECOLLECTS

14 Unprincipled professional man cutting discount (9)

16 Sterling taken in by foreign killer (9)

18 Ran in vain for creation of a blissful state (7) NIRVANA

19 To be excessively enthusiastic may in fact be outlandish (7) FANATIC

21 Experience discrimination (5)

23 Scam a magic formula (5)

24 In the pass, find venomous snakes of various kinds (4)ASPS

Hindu Xword 8219

Across

1 Sort of writers touched by hints (4,4)

5 It has to be kept untold (6) SECRET

9 Amble leisurely in Rhode Island's earthen bank (7)

10 The bulk is for a kind of physics (7)

11 Australian port with almost unrestricted cover (9)

12 Permission to depart (5) LEAVE

13 Musical instrument with top portion broken is still a musical instrument (4) LUTE

14 Tara prone to change, as matters are (3,2,4)

17 Question that will get fine answer (3,3,3) HOW ARE YOU

19 City in which the pace is not so slow (4) OSLO

23 Sibal crushed a herb (5) BALSI

24 Rerun fact to unfold the skill to read magical signs (9)

25 Pirate ship (7)

26 Ranges apparitions (7)

27 Horse going round the top of wasteland is agitated (6)

28 Seized cents had scattered (8) SNATCHED

Down

1 Measures by which food is pitched into the mouth? (8)

2 A doctor in a period of fasting is bright (7)

3 Frigate of model Rajasthan city (6)

4 Mistake of certain types (8,5) FLAGRANT ERROR(?)

6 Making possible for the sailor to be near the fish after a measure (8)

7 Draw back on the field (7)

8 Mean to be among the strongest emperors (6) TEMPER

10 Quinn, Gore goes round: there are strange happenings (5,6-2)

15 Dance and mega circus at a sporting activity (4,4)

16 Left, it is alleged, for this Egyptian city (4,4)

18 Watch old boy dish up (7)

20 Has hint about repetitive word in mantra (7) SHANTHI

21 Counter used by some Colaba customers (6) ABACUS

22 Approve the account for church payment (6)

Hindu Xword 8212

Across

1 Never does a dunce find the school periods so simple (4,5)

6 Part of thing each door needs (5) HINGE

9 Combination of elements (7) AMALGAM

10 Raised without a decent pedigree (3,4) LOW LINE

11 Go-between negotiators (6)

12 Eastern verse becomes oppressive (6) SEVERE

15 Points to my negotiator being a spy (5,5) ENEMY AGENT

16 Hearsay gossip (4)

18 Essential foundation (4) BASE

19 Deviation of lateral bend (10)

23 Vegetables for use in bowls (6)

25 Completed movement in series (6) STREAM(?)

28 Shedding granite to pieces (7) TEARING

29 Provisions prepared for use (7)

30 Side step by trickery (5) DODGE

31 Put things right after a bath (9)

Down

1 Originate from tea name (7) EMANATE

2 Battered and out of form (9) SHAPELESS

3 Closely put together (7)

4 Beat down quietly on the inclined plane (4) RAMP

5 Understanding fish (4) SOLE(?)

6 Hesitate to cry out for a glaring error (6) HOWLER

7 Coolness in danger (5) NAIVE(?)

8 Undivided whole (7) ELEMENT

13 White bird stuck in tangled tree (5) EGRET

14 Corner of the bend (5) ANGLE

17 Postscripts for concluding programmes (9) SEQUELANT(?)

18 Blindly intolerant I got into bed (7) BIGOTED

20 Cut the ice left in the dead skin at the base of the fingernail (7) CUTICLE

21 Provoked the sempstress? (7) TEMPTED

22 Request the pleasure of someone's company (6)

24 The Spanish and English type of African deer (5) ELAND(?)

26 A rag back of a seaweed (4) AGAR

27 We seem to aid the greedy somehow (4)

Hindu Xword 8211

Across

1 Apparently is some set arrangement (2,2,5)SO IT SEEMS

5 Bear troubles with a toothy smile (4)GRIN

8 Drinking vessel that sometimes overflows (3)CUP

9 Hotchpotch medley that will rightly go far (7)FARRAGO

10 Clamour in the diner here (3)DIN

11 Favouring extreme views or measures (5)ULTRA

12 Fully anxious to look after attentively (9)CAREFULLY

13 She is a curse with a wail portending death (7)BANSHEE

15 Authorise to arrest Lee (6)ENABLE

17 Take pleasure in being unusually mad with anger (6)ADMIRE

18 Most rapid progress ahead of true time (7)FASTEST

21 Jugglers who swindle the members of the panel somehow (9)CONJURORS

22 Turn out the victim inside (5)EVICT

24 Easy to crack seed (3)NUT

25 Old bait to get sensational headlines in small newspaper (7)TABLOID

26 Pair of performers (3)DUO

27 Utiliser of a right (4)USER

28 Cite extra involvement to set free (9)EXTRICATE

Down

1 Be forced to yield and die (7)SUCCUMB

2 Mischievous child to return to short punishment (5)IMPOT

3 Made wealthy men, Richard included (8)ENRICHED

4 Twinkling eyes of an enthusiastic child (6)STARRY

5 Grow to dislike one's boss to the point of total unreason? (2,3,4,4)GO OFF ONES HEAD

6 It gives an impression of permanence (9)INDELIBLE

7 Protein catalyst of specific biochemical reaction (6)ENZYME

9 Lightest of brushes (7,6)FEATHER BUTTER

14 Proposes names to appoint in office (9)NOMINATES

16 Branch away to grow quickly (8)OFFSHOOT

17 Advance in social status (6)ASCEND

19 Electronic valve to deter someway (7)TETRODE

20 Mobs hesitate to be gloomy and dismal (6)SOMBRE

23 Bestow aid in this country (5) INDIA

Hindu Xword 8210

Across

1 Prominent part of view (10)

6 Tail-wagging show of affection (4)

9 Swindle you strongly fear somehow (7)

10 He is not highly intellectual or cultured (7)

12 Pass away food and clothes free (4,4)

13 Crystal clear and distinct (5)

15 He takes rum to discharge tears (5)

17 Blow for slow retaliation (3,3,3)TIT FOR TAT

19 Structures to hold tool for cutting, taut (3,6)

21 Move along to dance and become brown (5)

23 State of being most badly evil (5)

24 Storm cooled in a tea cup, maybe (4,4)

27 Special boat to catch fish (7)

28 One bleeds to get things to be eaten (7)EDIBLES

29 Tear charge for measure (4)RATE

30 Flagrant mistake (5,5)? ERROR

Down

1 Cause to disappear gradually (4)FADE

2 Reason for delayed start to increase economic activity (7)

3 Drag north for the imposing summit (5)GRAND(?)

4 Something that has been done for years (3,6)OLD CUSTOM

5 Invalidates and makes void (5)

7 Fruit to get from Capri (7)APRICOT

8 A refurbished guide for those who want to wine and dine differently (3,7)

11 Go courting, but jilt the girl (4,3)

14 New sources clearly tapped not of the sea (5,5)

16 Trail mother regarding wedded bliss (7)MARITAL

18 Sense a smaller number without flavour (9)TASTELESS(?)

20 Assurance to demand sanction (7)

22 One who irritates a sewing woman? (7)NEEDLER(?)

24 Hesitate to steal to get the insect (5)

25 Love to live near the evergreen tree (5)OLIVE

26 First Russian imprisoned by Bolsheviks's armed forces (4) TSAR

Hindu Xword 2591

Across

1 Reason Italian's back in
action (6)MOTIVE

4 Wanting to cross, finds
a quicker way (5,3)SHORT CUT

9 Hood shown in book with
a silly call girl (9)

11 Check utterance made
by president (5)CHAIR

12 Faithful ally worried about
nothing (5)LOYAL

13 Indicate section of
flagship (9)

14 Playing in guest, character
introduced song associated with him? (9,4)? TUNE(?)

18 Tree, very small in street,


a reddish-brown colour (5,8)? CHESTNUT(?)

20 Fish only served after fruit (5,4)

22 Beer fit for a king knocked back (5)LAGER

24 Saw maiden meeting German fellow (5)

25 Send down countryman at end of case (9)

26 Game fish (8)

27 Inventor is entertained
by English lecturer (6)EDISON

Down

1 One's in Alabama port to
prepare for active service (8)

2 Score ton with partner (5)TALLY

3 Sway to and fro, being
sick during leave (9)VACILLATE

5 Completely topsy-turvy (4,4,5)HEAD OVER HEELS

6 Go over, step right up (5)RECAP

7 Clean home, in a mess, for fickle person (9)CHAMELEON

8 Seaman hit bull's eye (6)TARGET

10 The sound of a sailor going


over reportedly rough training ground (7,6)

15 Storage tank most agree
needs to be demolished (9)

16 Not tarnished? Could
become dull in use (9)UNSULLIED

17 Naval doctor eating piece of
tuna fish (8)

19 Alluring island castle (6)

21 I grumble about girl (5)

23 Greek fool, informant (5)

Hindu Xword 8209

Across

1 The attitude, resulting from where one is looking (5,2,4)POINT OF VIEW

9 Worker with time to reduce deadly sheep disease (7)

10 Disturbance caused when destruction is partial (7)RUCTION

11 Worker's monotonous sound (5)

12 A name to be changed for disease-carrying organism (9)ENTAMOEBA

13 Bird house, possibly, of silver, found in church (4)CAGE(?)

15 To wrongly interpret a dream is sad (7)MISREAD

19 Fix everyone, including bishop, in table game (7)PINBALL

20 Tea time talk (4)CHAT

24 Strength of purpose shown in daily deed with a suggestion of hesitation (9)CHARACTER

25 At no time a part of pristine verity (5)

27 Producing greater volume, I got into a more prying environment (7)

28 An idea, albeit the last of the last (7)THOUGHT

29 Greene's creation, Abel? (3,5,3)THE THIRD MAN

Down

1 Kinkajou goes to pot! (5)(???)

2 Country that old British P.M. found headless and tailless (6)ISRAEL(?)

3 They may come after unaccounted money (6)TRADES

4 Police report serious — emergency help arrives (5,3)FIRST AID

5 Closed to the public but not necessarily photographed (2,6)IN CAMERA

6 Mural coat to cover faults (9)WHITEWASH

7 A room cut short for a place for horses to be stabled (7)

8 It took a marriage to make him relative (2-3)IN-LAW

14 Segovia for one (9)(???)

16 Scraping like Emery (8)ABRASIVE

17 Could a cult harp about a Greek biographer? (8)PLUTARCH

18 Repeat a bit of what the waiter at eatery said (7)ITERATE

21 Small amount of money for perfume (5)SCENT

22 Hole in the ground left by a bomb (6)CRATER(?)

23 Notify the trendy class (6)INFORM

26 He is more than just a vegetarian (5) VEGAN(?)

Hindu Xword 8208

Across


1 Running late, timid Ben, he scurried (6,4) BEHIND TIME

7 Flowering shrub, one among the best (4)

9 Law number one backed in court case (6)

10 The present time of the Hindus (4,4) KALI YUGA

11 Dirty woman can translate without a difficulty (8)

12 Change is hard here for an entertainer (6) GEISHA

13 Colourful bird, once part of a royal seat (7) PEACOCK

16 Immersed in the deepest confusion (7) STEEPED

17 A sparkler of a suit (7) GARMENT(?)

19 Suffered and finished off around the old city (7) ENDURED

22 The way church accepts a new attitude (6) CHANGE(?)

23 Involved in love, Bala suffered more than anything else (5,3) ABOVE ALL

26 Al's force dissipated in the open air (8) ALFRESCO

27 Growing old, a German is in a doubly good situation (6) AGEING

28 No start for ethical kind of examination (4) ORAL

29 Going back to childish ways (10) REGRESSING(?)


Down


2 Outdo 40 Roman characters, say (5) EXCEL

3 Stupid like a Dostoevsky character (7) IDIOTIC

4 Thick component of condensed milk (5) DAIRY(?)

5 For the trendy sort, an option for payment without cash (2,4) IN KIND

6 Provide illumination in the glen somehow (9) ENLIGHTEN

7 Crazy new way in lease (7)

8 Large portion of Edam, perhaps, for the VIP (3,6) BIG PHOEBE

14 Letter writer: sounds like an English shooter (9)

15 Corn needs to be treated with a capacitor (9) CONDENSER

18 Substance extracted by a miner alert to opportunities (7) MINERAL

20 "Integrity without knowledge is weak and — ... " (Samuel Johnson, Rasselas) (7) USELESS

21 Chant about a right kind of garment (6)

24 Make a speech, blackleg, in Old English! (5) ORATE

25 In music, slowly advanced with love (5)

Hindu Xword 8207

Across

1 Queensberry rules — what one expects in boxing, say (4,4)

5 A daughter chooses and takes as one's own (6)ADOPTS

10 Skin is cut off (5)

11 Handle some timber, dry timber used as tinder (9)

12 Fixed firmly in the mind by reading trendy novel (9)

13 Slow speech is crude on the outskirts of Dindigul (5)

14 The point of a broken thorn (5)

16 Good kind of diet or bad, containing clean bits (8)

18 Persistent queen is upset in Father Time's embrace (8)FREQUENT

20 Artist's aid for relaxation and a bit of leisure (5)EASEL

24 A lake could be a nesting place for an eagle (5)AERIE

25 Reversal in a fashionable account (9)INVERSION

27 Hunter of Moby Dick, say (9)

28 Magistrate in Venice hides daughter to avoid ... (5)EVADE(?)

29 ... meteor crumbling far away (6)REMOTE

30 Constituent pounds in stone (8)

Down

1 Resistance to movement loses right in falsehood (7)INERTIA(?)

2 A number to greet in ecstasy (7)INTEGER

3 Father accommodates a good man, providing something to eat (5)PASTA

4 Career in Bollywood (6)ACTING(?)

6 Surprisingly, they dared to remove the water (9)DEHYDRATE

7 Matter of fact professionals upset American spies (7)

8 Encumbered by having a seat put on (7)

9 Solar timekeeper (7)SUNDIAL

15 Hard river craft, a place to stay in (9)

17 The very old develop a nice tan (7)ANCIENT

18 In one's cap, it means achievement (7)FEATHER

19 A murder staged with a tympanum (7)EARDRUM

21 Con man's forte (7)

22 The light that the Pole learnt to repair (7)LANTERN

23 Exaggerate? A lover does it here (6)OVERDO

26 Navigator's aid found by girl in expensive car (5)

Hindu Xword 8206

Across

1 Identify body odour to bring about beneficial impact from make-believe medicine (7,6)

10 Timid pose is contrived and taken full advantage of (9)OPTIMISED

11 Call on Pak. spies in old Mumbai station (5)VISIT

12 Irish cop is a bore in retrospect (5)

13 Luxury vehicle minus oil? Energy diverted (9)LIMOUSINE

14 Authority for travel, one sought after by aspiring politico (6)TICKET

16 Wet ground that is a cause for worry (5)MARSH(?)

19 Greet flying bird (5)EGRET

20 Endure, Teddy! Rise! (4,2)BEAR UP

25 Officer to join a group with fellow worker (9)COLLEAGUE

26 Young swimmer, a little eel verily (5)ELVER(?)

27 Send back the watch (5)REMIT

28 Misra shops around for pithy maxims (9)APHORISMS

29 Civil defence official who gets busy when the siren goes (3-4, 6)

Down

2 Ability to read and write English with clarity perhaps (8)LITERACY

3 Mark gives pause to the reader (5)

4 Noisy activity ruined the French (6)TUSSLE(?)

5 Selene's lover, beautiful man, would deny Moin's dilemma (8)

6 The one fancied to win (9)

7 American agency traps fool with a plant (6)CASSIA

8 Acquired by corrupt means (6)

9 Article swallowed by queen — it benumbs (5)

15 Whisk, for example, good one for rousing game (9)EGGBEATER

17 Big haze drifting around the north in Libyan city (8)(??)

18 Ironsides saver climbed up a fissure here (8)CREVASSE

21 Fried food's top in taste for a pedant (6)PURIST

22 Number with which to make a hit (5)SCORE

23 Old students distributing UN mail (6)ALUMNI

24 Asinine vocal expression (6)

26 To lose head in panic is a mistake (5) ERROR

Hindu Xword 8205

Across

1 Loner is about to accept crafty clues (7)RECLUSE

5 Emphatic approval for Public Law inspection (7)PLAUDIT

9 Emotion-packed means of reaching a higher level? (6,9)MOVING STAIRCASE

10 Dawn in an old place, golden: auspicious start (6)AURORA

11 Tame show has to be revised a bit (8)SOMEWHAT

13 Bleating about, that is manifest (8)TANGIBLE

15 Old boy is overdue, he is devoted to the religious life (6)OBLATE

18 People in the household are people with maturity (6)MENAGE

19 Player in a group is a bad man, flirting with Poles (8)BANDSMAN

22 A guide in the sky burdens sailor (8)LOADSTAR

24 A tool to cut up GI's jaw (6)JIGSAW

27 Susan, the dope, can be misled by something that is easily decided (4,3,4,4)OPEN AND SHUT CASE

28 Obscuration caused by a blow in one direction (7)ECLIPSE

29 Quiet worker, the girl's a big cat (7)PANTHER

Down

1 Men rant about what is left (7)REMNANT

2 Fellow with the right disguise (5)COVER

3 Discouraging a gunner in distress about victory (9)UNNERVING

4 Relax when in East European capital (4)EASE

5 Lighthouse — Harpo's design (6)PHAROS

6 Give consent to accept a note in time (5)AGREE

7 Light regulator distorts a dim graph (9)DIAPHRAGM

8 Scene of operations (7)THEATRE

12 Smart but disease-spreading creature (3)FLY

14 Peerless example that is plainer on reconstruction (9)NONPAREIL

16 Game for a long drink? (9)BADMINTON

17 Lawyers' watering hole (3)DAM

18 Sugar may melt so, a novelty (7)MALTOSE

20 A time for pious resolutions (3,4)NEW YEAR

21 Source of light revealed in magic and legerdemain (6)CANDLE

23 Keen kind of musical note (5)SHARP

25 Maiden in a belt is a big hit (5)SMASH

26 To inform against another is quiet work (4) WHOP(?)