The Hindu Cryptic on Sunday No 67, Sunday 02 Aug 2026, Incognito

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ACROSS

8   Attire available in Amritsar, India (4)

9   Excitedly goes around lecturer and stares lustfully (5)

10 Father leaves Apache in pain (4)

11 Surplus obtained from old tax (6)

12 Snakelike Hopi and I danced (8)

13 Arrange as region is quaking (8)

15 Wonderland visitor follows maiden displaying spite (6)

17 Draught animal and stag running around lake left by beginning of October (7)

19 Silly ass accepts a container to get fruits (7)

22 Before morning, you and I start to buy costly computer accessory (6)

24 Drains go around street board (4,4)

26 Poem composed about fluttering flag is a big failure (8)

28 One tailless animal follows another bird (6)

30 European on a street gets direction (4)

31 Sound made by head of team near small stream (5)

32 Politician's attempt to consume egg (4)

DOWN

1   Mummy getting right cross for political thinker (4)

2   Twisted wire put during autumn to create protective feature (8)

3   In France, good saint gives up book for miniature tree (6)

4   Fully finished everywhere (3,4)

5   Setter swings his mace, resulting in restricted blood supply (8)

6   Cut up sal and another kind of tree (6)

7   Bird not at home in Rhine area (4)

14 Love included in mysterious true path (5)

16 Rock in Scotland, rolling cigar (5)

18 Utter, "Totally" (8)

20 Old student only gets a note: "Outdated" (8)

21 Puzzling scream by police constable carrying that thing back (7)

23 Unsoiled church seat is broken (6)

25 Lamb preparation consumed in Alcoholics Anonymous in city (6)

27 Dash from crashed plane after losing first portion (4)

29 United States captures some foreign and alien spaceships, perhaps (4)

No 14861, Saturday 01 Aug 2026, Pixie Dust

 ACROSS
7 Air bubbles from damaged mobile (6) EMBOLI*
8 Not the first meal with short, sweet punch (8) UPPERCUT {sUPPER}{CUTe}

9 Disreputable persons repeatedly using a fir! (8) RIFFRAFF {A FIR}* [Letter Bank]
10 Independent male left foreign trade (6) IMPORT {I}{M}{PORT}
11 Disgusted Tom Cruise abandoning one user (8) CUSTOMER {TOM CRUiSE}*
12 Grandpa youthfully concealing distribution of money (3,3) PAY OUT [T]
13 Feverish pirate uses soft wipes (6,5) TISSUE PAPER {PIRATE USES P}*
18 High (from the beginning) she heard repetitive, incessant, loud litany (6) SHRILL [Acrostic]
20 Is this type of wooden case destroying aesthetics? (3,5) TEA CHEST {IS+TEA CHEST}*=AESTHETICS [CA]

22 Guard briefly thwarting initial attempt to split the eardrums (6) DEAFEN {DE{Attempt}FENd}
23 Spooner's dignity, lure and interest perhaps? (4,4) BANK RATE Spoonerism of RANK BAIT
24 Naughty Alice smothering mother and Herb (8) CAMOMILE ALICE* around MOM

25 Colfax mopes every now and then for fixes! (6) CLAMPS {CoLfAx MoPeS}

DOWN
1 Wicked rascal acknowledged dues (7) IMPIOUS {IMP}{IOUS}
2 Jerk cycling around often shredded pieces of coloured paper (8) CONFETTI {(+C)TI(-c)} around {OFTEN*}

3 Please //lay down weapons (6) DISARM [DD]
4 Ape a plant? (5-3) SPLIT PEA {APE}* [RA]

5 Stupid doctor, mainly ignorant, pathetic and extremely prickly (6) DRIPPY {DR}{Ignorant}{Pathetic}{PricklY}

6 Nearly upset bowl on top containing copper in the univalent state (7) CUPROUS {ROUSe}<=>{CUP}
8 Notable Battle of Rugen, perhaps (13) UNFORGETTABLE*
14 Resentment carried out without a bit of emotion's amazing! (8) SPLENDID {SPLEeN}{DID}
15 True! The reality is exposing something exquisite! (8) ETHEREAL [T]
16 Backtracking, loathe tailing revolutionary animal (7) CHEETAH {HATE<}<=>{CHE}

17...that is describing very elevated form of element (7) ISOTOPE {I{SO}{TOP}E}
19 Some werewolf nimbly reversing tide (6) INFLOW [T<]
21 Intermittently alarming, fierce bait for Leopard's-Bane! (6) ARNICA {AlaRmiNg fIerCe bAit}

REFERENCE LIST

Independent=I, Male=M, One=1=I, Acknowledged Dues=IOUs, Doctor=Dr., Revolutionary=Che (Guevara), that is=i.e. (id est).