SUNDAY CROSSWORD OF THE HINDU DATED 26TH 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 Female breaks in tight set - if good service follows it'll do for a Wimbledon champion (6,4)

6 Dog with no lead causes irritation (4)

10 Run off with sailor back out East (7)

11 A flap from one lair, welloiled (7)

12 Right occasion to rotate forward (5)

13 Mexican dish left in hacienda to be cooked (9)

14 Woeful issue? (10,5)

16 A question that may be asked at the bar: why is poor aunt so drunk? (5,4,6)

20 Having loose morals with you, sexually? (9)

21 Painting style showing circle followed by lines? (2,3)

23 An Arabian state, perhaps, could make me flipping angry! (7)

24 Cancels Pasteur broadcast (5,2)

25 Confess offence in front of gendarme, initially (4)

26 Put money back in, control already acquired (10)

Down

1 Who killed Cock Robin using extremely sharp weapon? (7)

2 Racecourse out of step, so modernising (5)

3 Calamity Jane's in town (no firearms fired?) (14)

4 Lucky find in middle of boggy, sodden ground (7)

5 Chaos? Some involving bridge (7)

7 Turtles, partners swimming round island (9)

8 Short answer appearing in forceful political publication (7)

9 What a dark bar may contain? (5,9)

15 Savage in a Conrad novel (9)

16 Wife stands, seeing vermin (7)

17 Disgusting old boy linked with ugly incident (7)

18 Peculiar story about Herts town (7)

19 Famous father's come in for a jotter (7)

22 Girl turned up for a valuable thing (5)


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