The Hindu : The Hindu Crossword 7557

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Monday, Dec 30, 2002

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The Hindu Crossword 7557

Across
 1 Improves State ranks (8)
 5 Compensation not on at the film site (6)
10 Not the place for a progressive traveller (4,3)
11 Where Mala kneaded wheat flour without a drop of til (4,3)
12 Lascar proves to be a blackguard (6)
13 It shouldn't tumble from one's cupboard (8)
15 Chop Indian hemp (4)
16 Remember how you go to the zoo? (4,2,4)
18 So near as could be given a ring (6,4)
20  Search a restaurant for a hidden help (4)
23 Principally (5,3)
24 Business apparently away from the rink (6)
26 Assist as the employee is gone (4,3)
27 Instance provided by former wife is adequate (7)
28 Held without force and tore (6)
29 Fighter raves that they move from one place to place (8)
Down
 1 Ill, being exposed to the elements (5,3,7)
 2 These are required to see topless women (7)
 3 Primate offers pea, for a change, to the chap (6)
 4 Ultimate objectives? (4)
 6 Throw around the stupid bum results in blundering (8)
 7 Former Prime Minister makes a final change in the Indian scripture (7)
 8 These will no doubt climb the trellis (7, 8)
 9 Crowd has training on a machine tool (4-5)
14 Sift each firm bit of legumes to eat leisurely (9)
17 Within which the hours are the same everywhere (4,4)
19 English novelist gives up eastern slattern (7)
21 What a lady takes to her head: bend on the road (7)
22 Love's the thing (6)
25 Half of the lec-dem I videographed (4)

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