The Hindu Cryptic on Sunday No 50, Sunday 05 Apr 2026, Incognito

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ACROSS

8   Bread? That's mine, and accompanied by a bit of anchovy (4)

9   Hides peels (5)

10 Caretaker's mails lost in Himalayas, surprisingly (4)

11 Capital possessed by Shankar Acharya (6)

12 See Luke going mad about learner's musical instruments (8)

13 Recommend, "Do vacate anyhow" (8)

15 Using machine for putting down on paper and mistakenly taping using Yankee instead of American (6)

17 Harmful constituent of food animal consumed, taking in a lot at first (7)

19 Lands in the lakes? (7)

22 Cancel north eastern entrance (6)

24 Expectorated on university luncheonette assistant initially and started soiling pancake flippers (8)

26 Compose march tune in lounge chair, perhaps (8)

28 Except Australian neon gas (6)

30 Small piece available in Kanchipuram (4)

31 Drink first, followed by setter's game (5)

32 Queen present in Teheran, Iran (4)

DOWN

1   Make a false statement on new right (4)

2   Chop sapodilla after removing top part of pulp to make cooking ingredient (5,3)

3   South African peoples having model with Aswan reconstruction (6)

4   Time taken to read reports of a meeting (7)

5   A message of distress about most superior material that is harmful (8)

6   What the lady did to improve looks to get edam? (4,2)

7   23 in Kalpetta, Kerala (4)

14 Die around 9 or 11 for southern part of the US (5)

16 Diana? Could be a Comaneci... (5)

18 Books confused Thai user (8)

20 True, lady is excited in extra-marital affair (8)

21 Has spread butter with a bit of salt in monasteries (7)

23 Take small quantity covered with peat mixture (6)

25 Sailor accompanies Turkish governor at small monasteries (6)

27 Some leaving Rushmore for German area (4)

29 6 doing headstand? (4)

No 14759, Saturday 04 Apr 2026, Afterdark

 ACROSS
1 Leaking doctor's intellectual property disheartened personally (6) DRIPPY {DR}{IP}{PersonallY}
4 Quarterfinals always leads to a medical condition (1,5) Q FEVER {QF}{EVER}
9 Heads from Gulf Union fear foreign baloney (4) GUFF [Acrostic]
10 Say forest transport's wild bison and buckram essentially (6,4) CARBON SINK {CAR}{BISON*}{aNd}{bucKram} See comments 
11 Miser investing a lot in business (6) CHEAPO {C{HEAP}O}
12 Secret cult loses leader, English Prior's powerless (8) ULTERIOR {cULT}{E}{pRIOR}
13 Type of pistol to ignore; rumoured to lack iron-sight primarily (4-5) SNUB-NOSED {SNUB}{NOiSED}
15 Reform people in a dungeon at first (5) AMEND {A}{MEN}{Dungeon}
16 A soft calcite found in Switzerland and Albania by knight (5) CHALK {CH}{AL}{K}
18 Say, Rajinikanth is fan magnet, appearing in papers every second (5,4) STAGE NAME {MAGNET pApErS}*
22 Slow single male worker passes assignments essentially (8) STAGNANT {STAG}{assigNments}{ANT}
23 Duckett legally blocked a container (6) KETTLE [T]

25 Something preceding it may concern (10) WHOMSOEVER [CD]
26 Persuade to live at the outskirts of Nadiad (4) BEND {BE}{NadiaD}
27 Would he be testing for poison taking egg out of kitchen equipment (6) TASTER {ToASTER}
28 Fly with El Salvador head (6) ESCAPE {ES}{CAPE}

DOWN
1 French heir unpaid in revolution, cross heart (7) DAUPHIN {UNPAID}* over {H}
2 Train Frank to hide below (5) INFRA [T]
3 Pass to enter good company with instrument (7) PICCOLO {PI}{C{COL}O}

5 Hostile France meets East Germany on the fourth of July (6) FROSTY {FR}{OST}{julY}
6 My servant becomes a church official (9) VESTRYMAN* 
7 One day in conflict and confrontation ultimately leads to poor health (3-4) RUN DOWN {R{UN D}OW}{confrontatioN}
8 Belligerent martinet with vague manoeuvres (13) ARGUMENTATIVE*
14 Tennis, Cricket, Hockey, Golf, Soccer, etc (4,5) BALL GAMES [Easy]
17 Warm, square, intense and highly successful (7) HOT SHOT {HOT}{S}{HOT}
19 Games for American children with fine arts after final briefing (2-5) GO KARTS {OK}{ARTS}<=>{briefinG}

20 Collection at Indian festival no good, cheap essentially (7) MELANGE {MELA}{NG}{chEap}
21 Mislead auditor by removing core of unit (6) CAJOLE {CA}{JOuLE}
24 A little setback, one crack in the middle bone (5) TIBIA {A {I}BIT}<

REFERENCE LIST

Doctor=Dr., Intellectual Property=IP, Quarterfinals=QF, Business=CO, English=E, Power=P, Switzerland=CH, Albania=Al, Knight=K, Egg=0=O, Heart=H, East German=Ost, One=Un (in French), Day=D, Square=S, No good=NG.