CRYPTIC CROSSWORD FROM THE TIMES OF INDIA, BANGALORE (3100 of 28-05-2017)(Fillable and with solution)
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Across:
1 It could make me a lord (7)ANAGRAM of ME A LORD
5 Somebody apparently incompetent (7)
9 Waits and doesn't let go (5,2)
10 Greek hero oddly sly in habits (7)CHARADE+ANAGRAM of SLY
11 So one maybe finds a catch in it (5)ANAGRAM of SO ONE
12 It is ground where games are finely balanced (5-4)
13 Found to be less habit-forming (9)ANAGRAM of LESS HABIT
15 Vessel in dock (5)
16 A boring couple (5)
18 The big swell may be a bore (5,4)
21 Cranks may be motivated by such an odd character (9)
24 Well-known craze takes me in (5)
25 A plant from the list (7)ANAGRAM of THE LIST
26 As a newcomer to the stage she won't be affected (7)
27 Not a compound heater (7)
28 Criticises a levy we hear (7)
Down:
1 There are two points he can possibly raise (7)CHARADE+ANAGRAM of HE CAN
2 Exclude a possible cause of faulty measurement (4,3)
3 I'm blessed in a new order that is fake (9)ANAGRAM of IM BLESSED
4 Minks seen around the place (5)ANAGRAM of MINKS
5 He is round although poorly fed (9)ANAGRAM of HE IS ROUND
6 It's the herb season (5)
7 Be right and left as well (7)
8 Point behind the ship towards the sunrise (7)
14 A grave commitment (9)
15 Ring contest (9)
16 Have some inspiration and beat her perhaps (7)ANAGRAM of BEAT HER
17 Attribute that makes a writer (7)
19 Its days are numbered (7)
20 Descriptive of an eternity ring (7)
22 In the harden it reinforces saltpetre (5)CONTAINED INSIDE