The Hindu Cryptic on Sunday No 11, Sunday 06 Jul 2025, Vidwan

ACROSS

9   Small, very small rent, covers scarp of common cereal (5,4) SWEET CORN {S}{WEE}{T{Co...n}ORN}

10 Bold monk left France and rose (5) BRIAR {B}{fRIAR}

11 Vision spanning twenty-one years (3) EYE [T]

12 Common craft for tactics (11) GENERALSHIP {GENERAL}{SHIP}

13 Honest, as guards are faceless (7) SINCERE {SINCE}{aRE}

14 Quickly, evenly, penetrates practically at the heart (7) NUCLEAR {N{qUiCkLy}EAR}

16 'Ron there in India'....absolutely correct! (5,2,3,5) RIGHT ON THE MONEY {RIGHT}{ON THE}{MONEY} {Re = Money in India}

20 Standard place mostly for arriviste (7) PARVENU {PAR}{VENUe}

21 Hot beverage with hint of tonic water at French country house (7) CHATEAU {CHA}{To..c}{EAU}

23 Cite one reel about campaign (11) ELECTIONEER*

25 More than some bitcoin (3) ETH [T]

26 Courts, say working for prosecution (5) OPINE {OPINE+COURTS}*=PROSECUTION [CA]

27 Spontaneous devil's caper on Tuesday (9) IMPROMPTU {IMP}{ROMP}{TU}

DOWN

1   One examines donkeys' spoors regularly (8) ASSESSOR {ASSES}{SpOoR}

2   Humble faculty head admitted me (6) DEMEAN {DE{ME}AN}

3   Crawler, horny and old, hosting grand social event (4,6) STAG BEETLE {STA{G}{BEE}{T}LE} T from?

4   Couple introducing individual resident of city (6) TOWNIE {T{OWN}IE}

5   Fix unopened core and one missing edge (8) ENTRENCH {cENTRE}{iNCH}

6   Adam's boy basically, turned out evil (4) ABEL {Ad..s}{Boy}{EviL} &lit He was not evil!!

7   The genie belted a number (8) EIGHTEEN* That should have been 'belted out'

8   Power line runs right (6) PROPER {P}{ROPE}{R}

15 Fellow citizen and leader of clan running away from small quarrel (10) COMPATRIOT {COMPAcT}{RIOT}

17 Reading about a yellow flower (8) GARDENIA {READING}*{A}

18 Unhealthy, unstable, unerotic (8) NEUROTIC*

19 Active address of second person, scratching backside of the most rich (8) YOUTHFUL {YOU}{THe}{FULl}

20 Buried men with a remarkable disinfectant (6) PHENOL PHENOmenaL 

21 Disturbing doctrine, mostly hollow pruriency (6) CREEPY {CREEd}{Pr...cY}

22 Release reins carelessly for experiments (6) EXEMPT {EXEMPT+REINS}*=EXPERIMENTS [CA]

24 Side said to be prolific (4) TEEM (~team}

Reference List

Small = S, Bold = B, France = F, Water in French = EAU, Grand = G, Social event = BEE, Power = P, Runs = R