9694

Across
1 The outcome of such erosion is plain (9)
6 Scouts’ parade (5) FLOAT
9 Equally determined to secure an item of value (5) ASSET
10 A tear in a printed sheet indicates extraction (9)
11 A solitary crustacean (6,4) HERMIT CRAB
12 Distraught seer giving tongue (4)
14 Injured GI and rest of patients given required treatments (7)
15 Made indirect reference to everybody about dude (7) ALLUDED
17 Materials used as inner surface to garments (7)
19 Less expensive (7) CHEAPER
20 Has snow settled? (4) OWNS
22 With no top man, male stress may result (10)
25 A manufacturer of spirit, yet in dire trouble (9)
26 Issues of Japanese immigrants found in U.S. quarter (5) ISSEI
27 To place players on stage for greater visibility is to err foolishly (5) RETRO
28 Stripped down? Anything but! (7-2) DRESSED UP
Down
1 Chap directed to be informer of a beautiful girl (5)
2 The allegation made in a store’s found to be false (9) ASSERTION
3 Contracting for the production of a string net (10) ASTRINGENT
4 There’s great pressure on the little pest before the lawsuit (7) IMPACTS?
5 Blissful state where Ivan ran wild (7) NIRVANA
6 A taste for seaweed (4)
7 Delighted to be broadcasting (2,3) ON AIR
8 He may tend to ape soldier to give a false appearance (9)
13 Plans to make nasty pictures (10) BLUEMOVIES
14 Elevated rank that’s difficult to   achieve (4,5) HIGH ORDER
16 Weighed down with iron indeed? (9) DEPRESSED
18 On the way, Ted got everybody in and blocked the road (7)
19 Tie around core group having   common interest (7) COTERIE
21 Detects a direction among those   voting against (5)
23 Skip around maiden barely giving her attention (5) SKIMP
24 One does not expect to hear the   truth from him (4) TYRO

9693

ACROSS
1 Powerless rogue has nothing to cover (8) IMPOTENT
5 Get the better of teacher (6) MASTER
10 Merely frozen water for the magistrate (7) JUSTICE
11 Stretcher (7)
12 Soak to the skin dear, topless woman (6) DRENCH
13 To get ahead, receive in excess (8) OVERTAKE
15 Do they throw away their lines? (4) CAST
16 Bearing being sent away? (10)
18 Children alone are cared for in these homes (10) ORPHANAGES
20 Solo dance in city (4) OSLO
23 Dry dean perks up with song (8) SERENADE
24 Mason’s weapon? (6) MORTAR
26 Press output doesn’t begin incitement to riot (7) EDITION
27 Examine leading ultra’s act in ancient soldiers’ shelter (7) TESTUDO
28 Fifty-five leave villages in a rampage for stored fodder (6) SILAGE
29 Ma’am and gals concoct mixtures (8) AMALGAMS
DOWN
1 June 1 discussion turned out to be marked by imprudence (15) INJUDICIOUSNESS
2 Own groups around the leader of Sikhs (7) POSSESS
3 Fool at church showing evidence of nervousness (6) TWITCH
4 Name that’s yielding up another name (4) NOEL
6 Expedition in the manner of the French metropolis going round river (8)
7 Measure a solution: bird’s shedding tear (7)
8 From where people come out refreshed (10,5)
9 Postpone, for the holiday has finished (5,4) LEAVE OVER
14 Girl accepts Dan’s withered flower (9) CELANDINE
17 Phantom occupation that’s unforgettable? (8) HAUNTING
19 Biased but not to full extent (7) PARTIAL
21 A necessity when up is mandarin orange (7) SATSUMA
22 Labour around polls (they say): if inflamed it needs to be removed (6) TONSIL
25 Exciting time for a piece of news (4) ITEM

9691

ACROSS
1 Get together with cheat on the edge (8) CONVERGE
5 Monkey with a new colour (6)
9 Don’t do anything to show it! (7) NEGLECT
10 Asian leader, attacked harshly, is disconcerted (7) ABASHED
11 Having an appearance for Doordarshan? (9) TELEGENIC
12 Gridman is back having encountered insect (5) EMMET
13 Country in super utopian state (4) PERU
14 Alas, saint turns attacker (9) ASSAILANT
17 Start-up (9)
19 It leaves certain things to certain people (4) WILL
23 Cut short graduate and boy (5)
24 Make inoffensive bad ode and act by wayward sire (9) DEODORISE
25 A lot of time to put footless Indian disciple in a step by step arrangement (7)
26 It takes a lot of time to note to repeat (7) ITERATE
27 Dread making ultimately unpleasant mistake (6) TERROR
28 Herein a spun-out tale, out of this world (8) ETHEREAL
DOWN1 Once path’s hacked, war memorial is seen (8) CENOTAPH
2 Fuss-pot has leggin thrown at redhead (7) NIGGLER
3 Drive ne’er paved on the limits of Gooty (6) ENERGY
4 Learn everything about the job by infiltrating a worker? (3,4,4,2) GET ONES HAND IN
6 ”Woman: shall we go for a buzzer or __ __ __ __ better option?” (2,1,4,1) IS A BELL A
7 One grandmother taking in murmur that is bestial (7) INHUMAN
8 Untidy — untidy with nothing on (6) NUDITY
10 One who goes for the digs (13) ARCHAEOLOGIST
15 French wine, pulse, with two ducks for the meal (8)
16 Flower girl, we hear, follows the conservative (8)
18 Fielder Tom dear in France (7) CATCHER
20 One friend carries one ton to copy (7) IMITATE
21 Sailor despatched, showing a lack of attention (6) ABSENT
22 Stick together with company present (5)

9688

Across
1 Bird on fire? There’s nothing to it! (8) FLAMINGO
5 Mother on modified diet succeeded (4,2) MADE IT
9 Capsize on open vessel (8) OVERTURN
10 Indian uncle having tea after endless conversation (6) CHACHA
12 Tribal of the Nilgiris not fully present (4) TODA
13 Sort out pen with inauspicious result (10) PORTENTOUS
15 Puts out nothing to royal in trance (6) STUPOR
17 Choose from the lecture (5) ELECT
20 Tiny file circulated by peon finally (5) ELFIN
21 Strata in 50 developed years (6) LAYERS
24 Declaration that no one is to return to the fast train (10) EXPRESSION
27 Phobia of extremely stiff appendage (4) FEAR
29 Folly of girl overwhelming girl in extreme comicality (6) IDIOCY
30 Dog boy carrying fabric around leading atelier (8) ALSATIAN
31 Not much kindled before outlet (6) LITTLE
32 Cut short pro leaving counterpart in a whirl (8) TRUNCATE
Down
1 Is buoyant in Florida with grains (6) FLOATS
2 Changes fellows in advertisements (6) AMENDS
3 Nation outside borders allotted very small amount (4) IOTA
4 Dress circle for Australian dustman (5) GARBO
6 Pale when woman appears (5) ASHEN
7 Sen hovers around secret boxes (8) ENCLOSES
8 Passages on characteristics about bridge players (8) TRANSITS
11 Well-set right in the den (6) STURDY
14 Eastern heavyweight in foreign school (4) IOTA
16 Fine-tune a language? (6) POLISH
17 Country causes close to immense anger (4) EIRE
18 Curative for engineer and setter laid up (8) REMEDIAL
19 Article from a book but not in the book (8) OFFPRINT
22 Somehow regain a Canadian town (6) REGINA
23 Draw back from band in the church (6) CRINGE
25 Very good! Fast go away! Outdo! (5) EXCEL
26 Nothing to glare about without a person who gives a flirtatious look (5) OGLER
28 In the clear – never by merit (4) EARN

The Hindu Crossword 9677 Sankalak

Across
1 Uncommunicative and curt, ain’t flexible (8) TACITURN
5 Entertainer’s admission of being a drug-taker (6) AMUSER
10, 21 Dn. Complete freedom of action, not only for the French (5,7) CARTE BLANCHE
11 Shop assistant who may sell good sari collection (9) SALESGIRL
12 Peasants in the middle-east knock down a bird, pocketing note (9)
13 Code-maker who dropped a note from a feeling of guilt (5) MORSE
14 Security device for people directing movement of planes in the outskirts of Loughborough (5) LATCH
16 Would a professional decline into a pathological condition? (8) PROLAPSE
18 As GM, I do act oddly opinionated (8) DOGMATIC
20 Where in Africa can one get an excellent sweet round roll in return (5)
24 Be full of them to be lively (5) BEANS
25 A French duke in the custody of socialist worker? Not needed (9) REDUNDANT
27 Venus in Athens? (9) APHRODITE
28 A look at a part of the ship, originally oval (5) DECKO
29 Label going with package reconstructs 28 ahead of time (6) DOCKET
30 Runners wait for their orders (8) STARTERS
Down
1 What a diplomat has to be? (7) TACTFUL
2 Simple band, round thing, beginning to tarnish (7)
3 An enclosing sheath that he cares to conceal (5) THECA
4 Fungus formed round points gives a reddish-brown colour (6) RUSSET
6 Smell, fresh lemon or honeydew (4,5) MUSK MELON
7 The rider puts his foot in it (7) STIRRUP
8 Lever that is designed to take the burden off (7) RELIEVE
9 Kind of meeting open to all or only half the people? Never! (7)
15 One has to be late to get one’s name on it (9) HEADSTONE
17 Tumour, bifid or otherwise (7) FIBROID
18 Poor reverted worker was an expert (3,4)
19 Lucid symbolic diagram gets one cent (7) GRAPHIC
21 See 10 Ac. CARTE BLANCHE
22 They write to the French over a short spell (7)
23 First appearance at a commercial opening (6) ADVENT
26 The lowest point in a broken drain (5) NADIR