The Hindu Crossword 8801 Solutions

Across

1 He makes fast deliveries (4,6) PACE BOWLER

7 Difficult journey, returning in a darker time (4) TREK

9 Repair a fracture and shed weight (6) REDUCE

10 The Latin way with the press etc., to find a compromise (3,5) VIA MEDIA

11 A strict disciplinarian would term it an oddity (8) MARTINET

12 Variable missile found in a plant (6) YARROW

13 Alms-giving? Get careful about it! (7) CHARITY

16 Letters that bring a breath of fresh air to stars? (3,4) FAN MAIL

17 One small measure relating to the mouth is unethical (7) IMMORAL

19 Behind time and found dead in a part of the garden (7) DELAYED

22 Man-eating giant one, a gross eastern horror (6) OGRESS

23 What a royal residence should be (8) PALATIAL

26 A voice that is a bore? Ain't funny (8) BARITONE

27 A harpy backs attempt to get support for a crane (6) GANTRY

28 Daughter with time, time for starting an operation (1-3) D-DAY

29 A medical branch I join because of temptation (10) ENTICEMENT

Down

2 Nut tree — hundred found in a region (5) ARECA

3 Earthy line with zero latitude (7) EQUATOR

4 Glyceride released on grabbing a garland (5) OLEIN

5 Frivolity of including popular industrial sector in an imposition (6) LEVITY

6 Off-the-peg but conventional (5-4) READY-MADE

7 Formula derived from a crumbling, hot meteor (7) THEOREM

8 Impose tie-break and make an example (9) EPITOMISE

14 Part-time volunteer — to protect the hearth? (4,5) HOME GUARD

15 Are parents so worried as to sign in a different key? (9) TRANSPOSE

18 Excess flesh can tie boys in knots (7) OBESITY

20 It is as hate is to love (7) ANTONYM

21 Buoyant, with a raised pulse (6) UPBEAT

24 Good sense shown by soldier in line of control (5) LOGIC

25 Article about professional stage part (5) APRON