The Hindu Crossword #2645 - 12th March 2006


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Across

1 Seduced, leader of team? Gutted, I must leave (7)

5 Weigh down with work at mill (7)

9 Special wine - comply with note about date and it should mature in time (9,6)

10 Call up? That's all right during late part of day (5)

11 Lying down in middle of bed after drink (6)

14 Tramp breaking lots of wine bottles (9)

16 Painful ulcer needs treatment (5)

17 Port in Japan, very large, known by another name as well? (5)

18 Additional demand in racing town (9)

20 Awfully misty approaching end of office block (6)

21 Strong and wiry copper arresting teacher in retirement (5)

24 Like street bands playing for amusement (4,3,8)

25 Yearbook bound by local man, a collector (7)

26 New rose-red screen (7)

Down

1,2 Lot H? A Scott novel (3,5,2,10)

3 Heavy blow to rear with end of cane or strap (5)

4 River pilot's first view, reportedly, of distant waters (4-3)

5 Old copper's bagging best fairground ride (7)

6 Phone, by special arrangement, one pursued by spies in ancient land (9)

7 Marathon record I start to challenge (4)

8 Extremely stark, the old island (4)

12, 13 Bob and William typed up `Seals at Sea - Aquatic Mammals' (4-6, 10)

15 One may be heading for a port abbatoir (strang name) (4,5)

18 Not settled in the Channel Islands, boy's upset (7)

19 US breakdown vehicle crew crashed by roadside? Almost (7)

21 Supply food for social event in Surrey town (not meat) (5)

22 A British graduate in pop group (4)

23 Join up, then fall heavily (4)


2 Responses to “The Hindu Crossword #2645 - 12th March 2006”

  1. Anonymous Anonymous 

    Hello from Crossword Bebop!

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  2. Anonymous Anonymous 

    May I have a word with Douglas.

    This particular crossword (2645) as well as any Sunday crossword is actually the Everyman crossword that is published in The Observer of the UK, with a two-week time-lag. The weekday puzzles are originals set indigenously.

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