The Hindu Cryptic on Sunday No 22, Sunday 21 Sep 2025, Incognito

ACROSS

8 & 12 E-tag for barging in without invitation (4,8) GATE CRASHING {ETAG}* [RA]

9   Entertain Aligarh Muslim University students at first with sweetheart (5) AMUSE {AMU}{St...s}{swEet}

10 Initially, Assam state police station gets snakes (4) ASPS Acrostic

11 Bachelor gets divine gift for monkey (6) BABOON {BA}{BOON}

12 See 8 Across

13 Engage one top performer to follow a couple of females around mid morning (8) AFFIANCE {1}{ACE}<=>{A}{FF} around {morNing}

15 Peter's urn (3,3) RUN OUT {URN}* [RA]

17 Hen can't run around and bewitch (7) ENCHANT*

19 Around one, President, gets a bit of hope for resounding victory (7) TRIUMPH {TR{1}UMP}{Hope}

22 Nearer shutter (6) CLOSER [DD]

24 Twirl fine rope and start shooting (4,4) OPEN FIRE*

26 Monetary incentive for arranging cab and shack (8) CASHBACK {CAB+SHACK}*

28 Hot goods dealers from marshy lands around church (6) FENCES {FEN{CE}S}

30 Embrace, with love, author Victor (4) HUGO {HUG}{O}

31 Europeans captured by Sudanese (5) DANES [T]

32 Long dash with setter's award (4) EMMY {EM}{MY}

DOWN

1   Kathak academy's ceremonial war dance in New Zealand (4) HAKA [T]

2   Destroy dilapidated limo shed (8) DEMOLISH*

3   Criminal adopts a new name and gets a big gun (6) CANNON {C{A}{N}{N}ON}

4   Follow and win (7) SUCCEED [DD]

5   Person mending relationship between spouses at odds with one another? (8) REPAIRER {RE-PAIRER}

6   Irishman, Chinese and Pashtun (6) PATHAN {PAT}{HAN}

7   Rotate rolling pins (4) SPIN*

14 Last part of fish is with a student (5) FINAL {FIN}{A}{L}

16 Uttar Pradesh person without issue gets part of shoe (5) UPPPER {UP}{PERson}

18 Average student leaving New York around beginning of day for French region (8) NORMANDY {NORMAl}{N{D}Y}

20 Baseless! Losing nothing and getting no monetary allocation! (8) UNFUNDED UNFoUNDED

21 Actor Anthony jumps around relatives (7) HOPKINS {HOP{KIN}S}

23 Where many fish learn? (6) SCHOOL [DD]

25 Channel fishes, to some extant, can be small (6) ELFISH [T]

27 A peculiar flowering plant (4) ARUM {A}{RUM}

29 The Spanish manuscript for trees (4) ELMS {EL}{MS}

Reference List

Female = F, Church = CE, Long dash = EM, New = N, Name = N, Student = L, Student = L, The in Spanish = EL