Cryptic Crossword from Economic Times New Delhi (9596 of 12-05-2026)

Cryptic Crossword from Economic Times, New Delhi (9596 of 12-05-2026) - Fillable and with solution

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Across:
1 Varied groups here to hold plea essentially for homeless person (5,7)
8 Umpires respond to these requests for donations (7)
9 Cracking promise, typifying some sportspeople? (7)
11 Eve hid ball naughtily, lacking in manners (3-7)
12 Ingenuity about first part of rigorous legal document (4)
14 Posh patron, say, among characters getting accompaniments to puddings (8)
16 Hour to probe secret society in crowd (6)
17 Native shortly lacking in love (3)
19 Develop a French following of a traditional nature (6)
21 Diminish sport in a miserable state (4,4)
24 Woman among numerous Arabs (4)
25 Wrongly dub wartime thing to transport food (4,6)
27 Common sense is shown in kingdom (7)
28 Ordinary family on holiday mostly in Japanese islands (7)
29 Odd coastline after a storm is made stronger (12)

Down:
1 Perils at sea around quiet or little waves (7)
2 Powerless to accommodate celebrity that's not responsive (10)
3 Uses sparingly male spouses (8)
4 Recruit swapping parts has to pay attention (6)
5 Part of problem mythologising TV award (4)
6 Pots are to be shifted for grass (7)
7 Cold sailor favoured cooking curries in motor boat with living quarters (5,7)
10 Elderly type is good to wear one raincoat that's crumpled (12)
13 One dispensing with complaints? (10)
15 Broadcast in this way supported by women (3)
18 Fresh recruits strangely now double after leaving university (3,5)
20 Service upset artist getting to leave mess (7)
22 Dismissed attraction from the south as superficial (7)
23 Bash in season without cover in place (6)
26 Thing used by fish amid surfing in sea (4)
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