HINTS TO SOLUVE SUNDAY CROSSWORD OF THE HINDU DATED 21ST JUNE 2009 (SOLUTION ALSO GIVEN)



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Across

1 Keen on board to win lottery (10)



6 Work in shop, usefully (4)



9 Tear in top worker’s trousers (5,5)



11 Very nearly, or very wellbehaved? (2,4,2,4)



15 A Conservative declaration gets praise (7)



16 Nursed a poorly ballerina’s partner (7)



17 Warning card (7)



19 A bridge hand easy to play? No, a pal and I suspect (7)



20 Something more noticeable smeared on garage exit (12)



23 Become a member of nightclub, briefly (4)



24 Director coming from Japan’s capital via Mysore, possibly (5,5)



25 Ring gang (4)



26 Singer in study accepting a short drink (4,6)



Down

1 Rifle fire (4)



2 Face of estate agent’s watch (4)



3 Careful, father at home betting (11)



4 Small restaurant with rent the reverse of low (3,4)



5 Girl starts to delve into digest used for cricket (7)



7 Start to pillory female on about flipping Captain Marvel? (10)



8 Shriek catching a boy dressing (5,5)



12 As a con man it worked, in a city near LA (5,6)



13 Axe 14 in severe reduction (7,3)



14 Calling for the seizure and control of a foreign territory (10)



18 Sporting rare tan, recount events (7)



19 Glib talk by northern model (7)



21 Did battle, reportedly, in citadel (4)



22 Girl from Brooklyn neighbourhood (4)




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