No 14363, Friday 07 Nov 2025, Saral

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ACROSS

1   Flier and mother right at home (6)

5   Catch off-guard uprisers in a riot (8)

9   To begin with build a compound for church (8)

10 Take care of one short tissue (6)

11 Criminal spoofer leaving electronic evidences (6)

12 Descriptions in record by theist altered (8)

13 Missiles, mostly from commander is returned (4)

14 Kind of second grade awful novel hidden by teen perhaps (10)

16 He smirks naughtily engaging one soprano in arguments (10)

18 Huge tank guarding borders finally (4)

20 Potential loser using drug? Gone! (8)

22 Effect of fantastic lustre (6)

23 Shoot girl with clip (6)

24 Wonderful food! My best recipe originated primarily in continent (8)

25 Judges later managed to review reports (8)

26 Some drank arak in Turkish city (6)

DOWN

2   Am following a gran setting this type of clue (7)

3   Flag in court I roll almost roughly (9)

4   Catches mollusc with head down (5)

5   Rats! He's sneaking deceptively, a treacherous person (5,2,3,5)

6   Fetches bush with local officials of town as per Spooner (9)

7   Not opening section in estate (5)

8   Cut down fresh thorns around trees essentially (7)

14 Covers crown put up in unseen area (5,4)

15 Vet locks initially ill collapsing farm animals (9)

17 Kelvin with articles about DNA editing in this language (7)

19 Without hesitation orderlies working for army man (7)

21 Mathematician's base rule is complex (5)

22 Plant among shrub I added (5)

No 14362, Thursday 06 Nov 2025, Karaoke

Solution to 30A has been deliberately left unsolved and is to be answered only by a non-regular/novice commenter, with proper annotation. Those who have answered earlier in the week, please give others a chance.

Open for anyone to solve, if not solved by 1 PM.

ACROSS

1   Child in the making more by mutation (6) EMBRYO* 

4   Trusted friend at club receives criticism (8) BRICKBAT {BRICK}{BAT}

9   Hire ruthless gang to invade vacant estate (6) ENGAGE {Est{GANG*}atE}

10 Battered a follower with clue finally, worried over play on words (6,2) BEATEN UP {aBc}{cluE}{ATE}{PUN<=}

12 Division protecting tower closely (3,2,3) ARM IN ARM {AR{MINAR}M}

13 Kick bonnet, kick bottoms and cry (3-3) BOO-HOO {BOOt}{HOOd}

15 Share equally? Not very well (4) HALE HALvE

17 Mischievous sprite vandalising Nehru Place (10) LEPRECHAUN*

19 Official in a hurry to smoke no-name cigarette (6,4) COFFIN NAIL {OFFICIAL}* over {N}{N}

20 Type of workers' protest essentially in European city (4) OSLO gO SLOw

23 Pay tribute to sailor rescuing belugas heartily, mid-sea (6) SALUTE {SAL{belUgas}T}{sEa}

24 Termagant, most tough about lowest point (8) HARRIDAN {HARd}{NADIR<=}

27 Turns a blind eye to criminal with blades, I hear (8) CONNIVES {CON}{(~knives)NIVES}

28 We join college old boys' network (6) COBWEB {WE} in {C}{O}{B}{B}

29 Rubbish can be reportedly in a stew sadly (5,3) WASTE BIN {(~be)B} in {A+STEW}*

30 They are brutal and live like tough stuff (6) ?E?S?S (Addendum - BEASTS {BE}{AS}{Tough}{Stuff} - See comments) Indicator missing

DOWN

1   See-saw playing with husband? Nonsense (7) EYEWASH {SEE+SAW}*{H} (Correction - {EYE}{SAW}*{H} - See comments)

2   Lady of high rank, say, hugged by beggar (5) BEGUM {B{EG}UM}

3   Niyogi cycling with woman proficient in physical exercises (6) YOGINI (+ni}NIYOGI(-ni)

5   Deplores deceptive plan, they say (4) RUES (~ruse)

6   Hint about tonic preparation, it hardly has any effect (3,2,3) CUT NO ICE {CU{TONIC*}E}

7   Spooner announces "Polish floors, idiots" (9) BONEHEADS (hone beds to boneheads)

8   Fever running but no infectious disease primarily? - It may frequently happen in India (7) TYPHOON {TYPHOid}{ON}

11 French city using old arsenal to destroy Russia at last (7) ORLEANS {O+aRSENAL}*

14 Maybe second or third alternative number in phone (7) ORDINAL {OR}{DI{N}AL}

16 They rescue by pumping current and oxygen finally to the almost dead (9) LIFELINES {LIFEL{I}{o...eN}ESs}

18 Financial assistance rejected to ethnic group for attack (8) DIATRIBE {AID<=}{TRIBE}

19 Fight and triumph, reject left and right, it continuously generates funds (4,3) CASH COW {ClASH}{CrOW}

21 Substitute in second round compilation (7) OMNIBUS {SUB}{IN}{MO}<=

22 Model's journey without essential authority in Tube (6) TRIODE {T}{RI{a..hOr..y}DE}

25 Drinks in daybreaks, not active for office primarily (5) DOWNS D(-a+o)OWNS

26 Shop selling prepared foods in capital, neither new nor hot! (4) DELI {new DELhI}

Reference List

Very = V, No = N, Name = N, Old = O, Boy = B, Husband = H, Number = N, Current = I, Left = L, Right = R, Second = MO, Model = T, Active = A, Hot = H