Cryptocracker

Wednesday, March 09, 2005

Hindu Xword 8236

Across

1 Without exaggeration, they also taste funny (2,3,3,5) TO SAY THE LEAST.

9 Old hairpiece for a porker, containing twisted wire (7) PERIWIG.

10 They bar re-spelling from memory (2,5) BY HEART.

11 Quality of time spent in a speech of praise (9) ATTRIBUTE.

12 Mature insect caught by Poornima got away ... (5) IMAGO.

13 ... despite the fact that the power of reasoning was cut short (7) THOUGH.

14 Headlong rush made pets scurry (8) STAMPEDE.

17 Put at risk like many a species of wildlife (8) ENDANGER.

19 Climber could descend thus very quietly: real trick (6) RAPPEL.

23 He can heal a dog reaching the Emergency Room (5) CURER.

25 Give a name to an oriental portent in an engagement (9) DESIGNATE.

26 It relieves the pain of people, though briefly, before onset of laryngitis (7) MENTHOL.

27 Integral, not constructed externally (2-5) IN-BUILT.

28 The Times etc. on the march, getting the sack? (7,8) WALKING PAPERS.(?)

Down

1 This support for sail is a most apt arrangement (7) TOPMAST.

2 English town where a good man, famous car maker, captured a deserter (9) STRATFORD.

3 Opening the mouth wide in a gesture of boredom (7) YAWNING.

4 Important person's audible greeting at a further level (4-2) HIGH-UP.

5 Text of opera about fickle, brittle love (8) LIBRETTO.

6 The unbeliever's belief (7) ATHEISM.

7 A place in Mumbai for a police station (5) THANA.

8 Freshly hard-coated battery terminal (7) CATHODE.

15 Lay stress on speed as is found in extremes of endurance (9) EMPHASISE.

16 Latest food shop admits husband in city (3,5) NEW DELHI.

17 Expressions of praise providing income? A novelty (7) ENCOMIA.

18 Arctic creature featuring in a seminar whalers conducted (7) NARWHAL.

20 Symbolic study of mathematics? (7) ALGEBRA.

21 Character from Hamlet or King Lear set about (7) LAERTES.

22 Making a demand qua the ruler (6) ASKING.

24 Restore some of the old serene way of life (5) RENEW.

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