Miscellaneous - Crossword

The Hindu Crossword 9368

Across

 1 Card game in which bets are made for air-conditioned motor in club (8)

 5 Forcibly take away sailor by tube (6)

10 Nine players lacking a safety feature? (5)

11 Such a tool, modified, produces large-scale destruction (9)

12 It might bring an aroma to the atmosphere (9)

13 Something to make motorists see better in fall (5)

14 An engagement made by Indians long back, with destiny (5)

16 Extremely weary and got dried out (3-5)

18 Are his glasses rose-tinted? (8)

20 Vestments that bring order in extremes of roughness (5)

24 Preliminary sketch for a floater, following start of deluge (5)

25 Such property is not for the self-made man (9)

27 Protection for a premature arrival (9)

28 Often nuisance includes some boredom (5)

29 He brings in the bread (6)

30 A law-breaker, maybe, with a tool Ravi built (8)

Down

 1 Live in good health around the north-east: that’s an advantage (7)

 2 Shout about old queen in a food-processing unit (7)

 3 Character that makes for a restless desire (5)

 4 Capital article included in half of a response (6)

 6 Isolated place seen in black and white: a racket busted (9)

 7 He has no right to be there (7)

 8 Instructed about a new route in backward, small district (7)

 9 Old trumpet noted for its call (7)

15 Arrivals and departures feature in it (9)

17 Grass found in seaport reconstruction (7)

18 Idle Tom, dithering, is typical of the past (3-4)

19 Transport vehicle, a model motor containing computer memory (7)

21 British honour would exclude one beginning to tope (7)

22 A fighting ant (7)

23 Duty for a month shortened by French king (6)

26 Dispose of about a penny in a period of time (5)

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