SUNDAY CROSSWORD OF THE HINDU DATED 12TH JULY 2009 (FILLABLE AND WITH HINTS AS WELL AS SOLUTION)



FOR FILLING UP, POINT THE MOUSE AT THE APPROPRIATE GRID AND TYPE THE LETTER

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Across

1 Weaver's backside and foot (6)

5 Lassie, perhaps, with a heavenly body (3,4)

9 Carry maiden over symbolic pole (5)

10&11 A growth that's turned up under one's nose? (9,9)

12 Irishman, last in office, returned message (5)

13 Print phrase out for union (11)

15 Demons at dominoes and dice (6,5)

20 Give a tie back (5)

22&23 Church member from Cairns, in stitches, breaking up about it on the way back (9,9)

24 Strange article defending madeup story (5)

25 Sent off, say, about grand in savings (4,3)

26 Fury shown by boy with incomplete toy (6)

Down

2 Elsewhere, ran and hurdled better (9)

3 Risk failure in US state capital, supporting draw (5,10)

4 Hair style, macho in comic (7)

5 Ballerina's partner in US? Andre possibly (7)

6 Successful worker upset getting severance pay (6,9)

7 I chewed up a bone (5)

8 A bank meeting resistance? Not often (6)

9 Book, and how I may want it dedicated? (4)

14 One who expects the worst tip misses out (9)

16 Skiving when head's gone missing (7)

17 Cap, black - ghoulish attire (7)

18 Clergyman's page on crime (6)

19 Clergyman must get rid of cold soon (4)

21 A young woman? Not quite right (5)


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Posted at 17.00 hrs IST on 12-07-2009