The Hindu Xword 8514 Solutions

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1 Choppers hit corps Lee fanned out (11) HELICOPTERS

9 Prompts Rex to hang out denims (7) REMINDS

10 Person for whose performance there is no accounting (7) AMATEUR

11 Stop being an outsider (5) ENTER

12 All over the U.S. studios? (9) UNIVERSAL

13 Tripura's leader questions undertakings (5) TASKS

15 Occasions when balloting is done (9) ELECTIONS

18 The verdicts of the court on indices so cleverly manipulated (9) DECISIONS

21 Some official U.N. articles associated with the moon (5) LUNAR

22 Full of life, greet nice representations (9) ENERGETIC

24 Agreed to be presented (5) GIVEN

26 A burning issue may come out of it (7) VOLCANO

27 One drink gulped down by Miss West in picture (7) IMAGINE

28 Within these an afterthought is expressed (11) PARANTHESES

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1 Gathered the rabi or kuruvai? (9) HARVESTED

2 Restrict it after 51, Monsieur (5) LIMIT

3 Draws a distinction between the light and the dark, perhaps (9) CONTRASTS

4 Bearing not zilch but first-class grazing land (7) PASTURE

5 Inspect knife springing up on quarry (7) EXAMINE

6 Haphazard races cause panic (5) SCARE

7 As used to create a stir in the cup (8) TEASPOON

8 Spoken lesson doesn't start (4) ORAL

14 How the agents work behind somebody's back (8) SECRETLY

16 Wire: "Great help needed" (9) TELEGRAPH

17 Unfamiliar persons are U.S. commandos, by the way (9) STRANGERS

19 Excel in getting gold in a kind of game (7) OUTDOOR

20 Notices broken fragment (7) SECTION

22 Covet some housed in green Vyasarpadi (4) ENVY

23 Take hold of a key file (5) GRASP

25 Aids to circulation (5) VEINS

The Hindu Xword 8509 Solutions(first go...)

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1 The finest tars? (4,5)

6 Elaborate dramatic portion of opera (5)

9 Sell pie in regular oval shape (7) ELLIPSE

10 Her gout makes life more difficult (7) TOUGHER
11 Cheap inferior container (6)

12 Small vessel used at the breakfast table (3,3)

15 So cat upset railway worker with maritime force (5,5)

16 Interesting fact not previously known (4)

18 Seek out to kill or capture (4)

19 Pale boy Mel can perhaps be given a job (10) EMPLOYABLE
23 Small cupboard ravaged by hungry clerk (6)

25 Rightly score ten millions somehow (6) CRORES
28 Arranging in sequence (2,5)

29 Bass found in the ocean (3,4)

30 Characterised by style of artistic execution (5)

31 Applying to all things (9)

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1 One who takes cynical views (7)

2 Punched into one ugly villain without any effect (3,2,4) ALL IN VAIN

3 Supreme paramount principal (7)

4 Knotty problem for navigators (4)

5 Ties for a place where some activity is conducted (4) SITE
6 Sully with disgrace (6)

7 Morally correct and honourable (5)

8 By the way it is to be the point (7)

13 It's present only as figurehead (5)

14 Subject to severe questioning (5)

17 Some barge put under restrictions (9) EMBARGOES

18 Keeping fast and maintaining in position (7)

20 Payment for use of stockyard (7)

21 Fuel splashed around rough sea becomes soothing (7) EASEFUL

22 Full bloom of prosperity (6)

24 Haircuts — all seasons growth (5)

26 Title of a German woman (4)

27 Scintillating spore sac found here (4)

The Hindu Xword 8506 Solutions

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1 Spring, at night perhaps, indicates action taken unaware of possible consequences (4,2,3,4)LEAP IN THE DARK

9 Could a BE repel, somehow, a portable radio signal receiver? (7)BLEEPER

10 Bundle, almost complete, is menacing (7)BALEFUL

11 Delight in conveyance (9)TRANSPORT

12 Chew on some lasagna sharply (5)GNASH

13 Strongly tipped to win socialist is excitable (3,3)RED HOT

14 "Beauty is in the eye of the — '' (8)BEHOLDER

17 Ceremonial steps taken before battle (3,5)WAR DANCE

19 Shy, English PC's transmogrified soul (6)PSYCHE

23 The fibre of a French friend in the Royal Engineers (5)RAMIE

25 Ready-to-wear for the prancing, hep toff, e.g. (3,3,3)OFF THE PEG

26 Speak persistently about love for a hunter's aid (7)HARPOON

27 A transport organisation to broadcast the approach (7)AIRLINE

28 A boxful of valuables caught theatre users slipping (8,5)TREASURE CHEST

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1 Large strobe trained on marine creature (7)LOBSTER

2 Greek warrior who could relax and start enjoying dance (9)ALEXANDER

3 Painting technique found in grim pastoral scapes (7)IMPASTO

4 Great fear of finding fault after time (6)TERROR

5 Printer's measure, harsh, can make one hostile (8)EMBITTER

6 Instruction to one in orchestra, legal or otherwise (7)ALLEGRO

7 Female grasped by uncle in Delhi was a writer (5)KAFKA

8 Bookmaker failing to settle bet (7)WELCHER

15 A pet device turns misleading (9)DECEPTIVE

16 Reports from a Conservative nobleman (8)ACCOUNTS

17 African wild pig with a growth problem (4-3)WART HOG

18 The solvent makes amends around church (7)ACETONE

20 Globe-shaped perch is unusual (7)SPHERIC

21 Most disjointed English digest revised (7)EDGIEST

22 A very loud song of a romantic relationship (6)AFFAIR

24 Excellence in a summer ritual (5) MERIT

The Hindu Xword 8502 Solutions(Partial)

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1 A rickety engine producing the force of motion (7,6)KINETIC ENERGY

10 Exercise aids for brainless beauties, say (4-5)

11 Rustic Rau moves between two sides (5)RURAL

12 Let everyone be an endless debtor (5)ALLOW

13 Sort of legislator who was not returned (9)NOMINATED

14 Roles reversed around a minor ruler (6)

16 Craft that could turn over in lidos (5)

19 Measure — raise it to the third power, say (5)CUBIC

20 Stableman with a way in new role (6)OSTLER

25 Bat always poetically used by a fraud (9)

26 Essential Indian excavators in olden times (5)

27 Hunt for a prolific thriller writer (5)

28 Hero worship worries Naidu a lot (9)ADULATION

29 Check your Inbox, understand? (3,3,7)GET THE MESSAGE

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2 I am overdue, about an instant, to offer a sacrifice (8)

3 Joint featuring the Spanish weapon (5)ELBOW

4 Doing nothing, like the car stopped at the signal (6)IDLING

5 See men scurrying, escorting lawyer as a group (8)ENSEMBLE

6 No re-use or recycling? That is wrong (9)ERRONEOUS

7 Does a heartless chap deserve to whirl? (6)GYRATE

8 Student steeped in thoughts of role models (6)

9 Dashing young man seen in an Hasselblad expo (5)BLADE

15 A goddess reportedly intended as a diversion (9)

17 Start listening, repeat and become educated (8)LITERATE

18 Advantage that is not so significant at home in the environs of Beijing (8)BLINDING

21 Withdraw statement about insincere talk (6)

22 A split nut (5)

23 Eight notes of music (6)OCTAVE

24 Urge so unusual in a bird (6)

26 Alloy provides support on ship (5) BRASS

The Hindu Xword 8501 Solution

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1 Toss and turn with the aged at the doorway (9)THRESHOLD

5 Sorceress with a key inside (5)WITCH

8 A flier, fit, can be made less intense (8)ABATABLE

9 In traffic it has a stop and go effect (6)SIGNAL

11 Statesman— what a run he managed! (5)NEHRU

12 Canine transport in America (9)GREYHOUND

13 An area to ignore, possibly (6)REGION

14 Royal Indian party figuring in the papers (8)PRINCESS

16 Moving around small island, prepare for action (8)MOBILISE

18 Half of them, except Kelvin, get on board (6)EMBARK

22 A tribal do produces flap on lorry (9)TAILBOARD

23 Bird that managed to get into church (5)CRANE

24 Needlework in the theatre (6)SUTURE

25 Badly spoiled, hard, but refined (8)POLISHED

26 A girl's bit of banter (5)SALLY

27 Swollen and destined to suffer, with a bit of dysentery (9)DISTENDED

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1 A coach to coach the queen (7)TRAINER

2 Inconsiderate driver, a swine by the way (4,3)ROAD HOG

3 Ellis Island monument, a gift from the French (6,2,7)STATUE OF LIBERTY

4 Treat boil e.g. and do a favour (6)OBLIGE

5 Scale that got Angie chewing him out (8,7)WEIGHING MACHINE

6 Shaving the head is not new, certainly (7)TONSURE

7 Chemicals in skins contain aluminum (7)HALIDES

10 One body part or another in extremes of heat (5)HEART

15 Testing a metal- arsenic, for example (5)ASSAY

16 Cell division- is it some endless mystery? (7)MITOSIS

17 English city where Lt. Boris worked (7)BRISTOL

19 At a party, journalist is disconcerted (7)ABASHED

20 Prepared the dough as required, reportedly (7)KNEADED

21 Do bounced promissory notes become repulsive? (6) ODIOUS

The Hindu Crossword No. 8492(partial)

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1 He tells of soldiers in opposition (9)

6 Snares for the travellers? (5)TRAPS(?)

9 Create a stir about a film (5)MOVIE

10 Where Galatea became involved with a male leader outside the youth centre (9)GUATEMALA

11 Able to communicate through the mind or by TV, say, using course that's pronouncedly icy (10)TELEPATHIC

12 Hit friends who come back (4)SLAP

14 Ian had nothing within the State he belonged (7)IDAHOAN

15 Lost old Indian copper coin (7)

17 Swears to new ways in combating attacks (7)

19 Canoodles without spectacles, as luminaries (7)CANDLES

20 Wingers can be awfully slow (4)OWLS

22 Talk about classy French wine is jingoistic (10)

25 In a trance, amazingly, describes the gold (4,5)NINE CARAT

26 Moderate sailor is consumed (5)ABATE

27 Rhubarb man put into rum (5)RHEUM

28 For him, business is picking up (9)

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1 Clock up mail (5)

2 A few in the Sicilian detachment are non-military (9)CIVILIANS

3 Move in processing men due to be laid off (10)

4 Make it more close-fitting (7)TIGHTEN

5 Prepared to die dear, in rebellion (7)READIED

6 Change of rite creates a row (4)TIER

7 Take advantage of gains (5)AVAIL

8 Impressed by Eastern direction flights (9)

13 Anaemic pet treated and set free (10)EMANCIPATE

14 Where naughty boys stood confronted by a dilemma (2,1,6)IN A CORNER

16 Fashionable young man, about teatime, to gad about (9)

18 Relating to a class of society where many perish in disorder (7)SPHERIC(?)

19 Dried up scrap of bread and salt to cur not right (7)

21 Clean cut is needed in surgery (5)LANCE

23 Not our Henry to tire in a muddle (5)THEIR

24 Managed to get his camera out of a swindle (4) SCAM