Solutions to The Hindu Crossword 9496

Across

1 Confused opera piper led in a neat manner (5-3,5)APPLE-PIE ORDER

8 Father turns back for a respite to order the first course of a meal (9)APPETISER

9 Actions taken on legal documents (5)DEEDS

10 Plain artist has one caught in anger (7)

12 South Island has the main kind of monkey (6)SIMIAN

14 Fruit drink for a crowd of people (5)

16 Mammals measure up to twenty incomplete squares (4)ELKS

19 Head nurse to copy the back side of the neck (4)NAPE

20 Born in Alabama on Tuesday, an explorer gets a large bird (9)

21 Leader in charge of the ceiling decoration (4)

22 Cast perform some parts of the play (4)ACTS

25 Subjects of study in software assignments (5)

27 Jade in to last for long in the space station (6)

29 Scholarly king on the little horse (7)

32 Emperor protects a wild ass (5)

33 People not present have seen a best form (9)ABSENTEES

34 Real speedy tax developed in a worse manner (13)EXASPERATEDLY

Down

2 Leader’s short speech to boost confidence (3,4)PEP TALK

3 Subsequently — an unpunctual monarch (5)LATER

4 Mounted up the lady on the side of a pram (6)

5 Royal Navy after each to work hard for money (4)EARN

6 Rhode Island covers a notice on single line segments (5)RADII

7 Welcome celebrities on a coloured rug (3,6)RED CARPET

8 Have enough of an unopened specimen for analysis (5)AMPLE

11 In charge of the oriental snake in the vessel (7)

12 Talk in a friendly way to a quiet animal (7)

13 People in South Africa have an organization for the very intelligent (5)MENSA

15 Loosen the odd gunny twines (5)

17 A double for an actor (4,5)LOOK ALIKE

18 Disrespectful German soldier is in to request (5)

23 Hide the fact from the commander in a clean manner (7)

24 Borders of a liner around a fish (5)

26 Gangster to request before a state (6)ALASKA

28 Strong desires from four gestures (5)URGES

30 Girl terribly inane (5)ANNIE

31 Losing heart to sculpt the hollow enclosure (4)CAGE