The Hindu Cryptic on Sunday No 63, Sunday 05 Jul 2026, Incognito

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ACROSS

8   Perhaps, Christian boy with a drink? (4)

9   A tub that is damaged and having a hole in it? This vessel may be underwater... (1-4)

10 Times editor, at first, is surrounded by swirling gas (4)

11 Fox appearing in The Day of the Jackal (6)

12 Communist, having kidnapped a pretty girl, mutinied (8)

13 Decrease from the moons orbiting (8)

15 Nero dances in front of engineer getting dress (6)

17 Type of gland, perhaps, having real DNA mutation (7)

19 Tan sari manufactured for empress (7)

22 Entertains American with US bridge players (6)

24 Put off excited toffs carrying Greek letter and going around university (5,3)

26 Nothing left, okay? (3,5)

28 Noise by Indiana man to be married in part of house (Continued in 32 Across) (6,4)

30 Joint from shank needed (4)

31 Silly in an exhibition at first (5)

32 See 28(4)

DOWN

1   Musical group from Porbandar (4)

2   Insane demon ate worm (8)

3   Turning up at end of hour, had returned veil (6)

4   Badly ignore German air chief during WW2 (7)

5   Best bars moulded for assailants using sharp instruments (8)

6   Mariner from small oil tanker leaving Kent and sailing (6)

7   Manufactured cashmere without scam at this place (4)

14 Lady remains unchanged on retirement (5)

16 Wrap turban in absence of right African people (5)

18 Spears animal in front of drunken sage around one (8)

20 About financial penalty on railway for oil processing unit (8)

21 Smoker's accessory from trash thrown by a Yankee (7)

23 Della in Mason books and Baker in Holmes stories (6)

25 Perhaps, what Dracula does... briefs, for example... (6)

27 What uncle did with money in period before Easter? (4)

29 Either way, it's middle of the day (4)

No 14837, Saturday 04 July 2026, Arden

 ACROSS
1 Cheer about Oscar, it reverberates twice (6) REECHO {CHEER}*{O}
4 Stays silent on how dad stays married (5,3) KEEPS MUM [DD]
10 Concluding comments covering lots of pages on a soft drink (5,4) CREAM SODA {CODA} around {REAMS}

11 Repetition reviewed during tenure regularly (5) RERUN [T<]
12 Told you to use silent instrument (7) UTENSIL {U(~YOU}{SILENT*}
13 Dirty urinals cut off (7) INSULAR*
14 Bristles at rejected entry into Vatican (5) SETAE {AT<} inside {SEE}
15 Cassandra - a film about left and right, primarily (8) ALARMIST {A}{MIST} around {Left}{And}{Right}
18 Expressing contempt - back in Dubai, perhaps or its neighbour (3,5) ABU DHABI {BAH<} in {DUBAI*}
20 Duplicates of small cots (5) CRIBS [DD]
23 Classify a record on Asian language (7) TAGALOG {TAG}{A}{LOG}
25 Top few, in other words, are unpleasant (7) NOISOME {NO 1}{SOME}
26 Old get promoted, mostly (5) PASSE {PASSEd}
27 Club provides hemp in a party (9) BASTINADO {BAST}{IN}{A}{DO}
28 Stator winding concealed - he changes the resistance (8) RHEOSTAT {STATOR}* around {HE}

29 Be there at ten daily (6) ATTEND {AT}{TEN}{D}

DOWN
1 Race ends - Aintree, perhaps, is an option (8) RECOURSE {RacE}{COURSE}
2 Top of the world, always is in Paris...(7) EVEREST {EVER}{EST}
3 ...instead bifurcated a hacienda, perhaps (9) HOMESTEAD {HOME=IN}{STEAD}

5 Material gain is unexpected considering everyone's equal (14) EGALITARIANISM*
6 Hilton, perhaps, is capital (5) PARIS [DD]
7 Losing them makes one go insane (7) MARBLES [CD] 
8 Spaceman tracking to include the tag-line (6) MANTRA [T]
9 Short book list - find book in a large fancy cover on this subject (7,7) BOOLEAN ALGEBRA {BOOk}{LEAN}+{B} in {A LARGE}*
16 "Red China is covered in smog", says Turner (9) MACHINIST {CHINA}* in {MIST}
17 Space traveller finds a chemical substance (8) ASTEROID {A}{STEROID}
19 Mean to collect for example, NO bio-fuel (7) BAGASSE {BASE} around {GAS}
21 I criticize accepting order to quarantine (7) ISOLATE {I}{S{O}LATE}
22 Puts up with an alternative to lethargy (6) STUPOR {PUTS<}{OR}
24 Among strangers, no adult gets legal rights over property (5) LIENS {aLIENS}

REFERENCE LIST

Oscar=O, Is in Paris=EST {Is in French}, Book=B, Order=O, Adult=A.