Hindu Xword 8285

Across

1 Sport at the table? Ready (9)BOARD GAME.

5 Be mean to Kipling boy in the custody of police officer (5)SKIMP.

8 Travel document for a vessel beginning passage in harbour (8)PASSPORT.

9 Sickness of Una, sea being turbulent (6)NAUSEA.

11 Tool that can bore like a soothsayer, say (5)AUGER.

12 Provide soldiers, last in unit, with the needed tools (9)EQUIPMENT.

13 Mystery of a mean GI resolved (6)ENIGMA.

14 Suppress the controller of fuel supply (8)THROTTLE.

16 Alien killer of Boston, say, lost a pound (8)STRANGER.

18 Physicist who found carbon in a length of timber (6)PLANCK.

22 Bad veal is destroyed: that is to be recommended (9)ADVISABLE.

23 A sweet conjunction within city limits (5)CANDY.

24 Support for the head engaged in kind of talk with spouse (6)PILLOW.

25 Central character in play who was opposed to the girl's love (8)ANTIHERO.

26 Fat old by gets direction (5)OBESE.

27 Does Goran care about conceit? (9)ARROGANCE.

Down

1 Acquire, say, a flier, one with two sets of wings (7)BIPLANE.

2 Weapon of a Nazi guard member, for example, first class (7)ASSEGAI.

3 A tormented priest I left in distress in shopping place (10,5)DEPARTMENT STORE.

4 Flying people partake of some fair menu items (6)AIRMEN.

5 Popular hobby, assembling some pieces of paper? (5,10)STAMP COLLECTING.

6 Check out the little creature swallowing a piece of peanut (7)INSPECT.

7 Money that a priest minted (7)PIASTRE.

10 Copper, timid but comfortable (5)CUSHY.

15 Plants that belong to the girl, including a little basil (5)HERBS.

16 Cleanser for locks (7)SHAMPOO.

17 Go round a side and grow (7)REVOLVE.

19 Grandma eager for a kind of fabric (7)NANKEEN.

20 Opening for the opener (7)KEYHOLE.

21 More petty than the average queen (6) MEANER.