The Hindu Xword 8662 Solutions

Across

1 Communication device to help clone production (9)CELLPHONE

5 Constable, artist, finds source of oil (5)COPRA

8 Substance initially derived from carbon, oxygen, barium, antimony, lithium and titanium (6)COBALT

9 Bird left gazing all around (8)

11 Instrument to evoke key spirit (4)DRUM

12 A mean fellow, he takes cap around (10)CHEAPSTAKE

14 Language quirk of old African leader getting order (5)IDIOM

15 Nearest interpretation of seriousness (7)EARNEST

16 Muse of song (7)

17 One doing needlework in a drain (5)SEWER

19 With which to shoot American church building (4,6)....CAMERA

20 Blackleg's cover for injury (4)SCAB

22 Packing for legal action perhaps (8)

23 Make a cut in a trendy measure, say (6)INCISE

24 Fear of those gone carrying the beginning of rubella (5)

25 A handspring, acrobatic revolution! (9)

Down

1 Insect with some thoracic adaptation (6)CICADA

2 Mutinous Brit leaves union in which much of the costs are due to wages (6-9)LABOUR INCENTIVE

3 A tree on hand (4)PALM

4 The kind of perception that a psychic could have (12)EXTRASENSORY

5 Bottle openers seal prison officials (10)CORKSCREWS

6 What a civil surgeon may be permitted to do is not the general routine (7,8)PRIVATE PRACTICE

7 Add to Aunt Meg's discomfiture (7)AUGMENT

10 Performance by a small orchestra in summer: Bachic variation (7,5)CHAMBER MUSIC

13 Flavouring agent for an ersatz drink (6,4)

16 Forgiven and released from duty (7)

18 Sailors lie back and come down by rope (6)ABSEIL

21 Fall in winter reveals love in three directions (4) SNOW