Saturday, August 4, 2012

The Hindu Crossword No. 2698






















Solution No. 2697



Across


1 Crazy, me, about a Frenchwoman (6)


4 Make a mistake rotating students (4,2)


8 Huge movie (7)


10 A series under discussion (2,5)


11 Name old-fashioned puzzle (4,6)


12 Gorilla may be hot on board vessel (4)


14 No North Sea oil? That’s confused naval man (7,6)


16 Training on second musical instrument, a fiddle? (5,8)


18 A stake in Italian tearoom (4)


19 They may be put on for the rest of the train travellers in France, perhaps (6-4)


22 Trendy type seen round hotel, briefly (2,5)


23 Inform editor, surprisingly acute (7)


24 Good parties for French wine (6)


25 Small number crossing river, British one (6)


Down


1 Record label millions love, tenor’s first to admit (6)


2 Put off cleaner gent jilted (5)


3 Handwritten document, with tear, kept in blessed sanctum (10)


5 Hideaway left warm and dry (4)


6 Model that’s changed inside as fast as possible (9)


7 Drama in gym – gentry involved (4,4)


9 Opposite number’s bar role (11)


10 Film a number entertaining Irish press (3,5,3)


13 Novelist in infamous bar in the north-east (5,5)


14 Hospital in the Alps, newly-built with a fitness centre (6,3)


15 Evaluating a small saw (8)


17 Behind adult not inclined to leniency (6)


20 Crazy discarding spades? Senseless (5)


21 Solid fuel all right in church (4)


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via The Hindu Newspaper http://www.thehindu.com/arts/magazine/article3711107.ece

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