Prepared by

Tony Sebastian

Across

1. Some decent Ralph Lauren store is essential. (7)

5. Breaking news: Aussie cricketer narrowly escapes run out call! (6)

9. Terrorist caught with some occult racists. (5)

10. Tear hound to pieces when you can’t lie. (5,4)

11. Dumb like a Dostoevsky book. (7)

12. ____ __ _ dump, not a very uppish state. (4,2,1)

13. Relieved as they finished without the leader. (5)

14. Ball Phosphorous exam for the quickest. (9)

16. What a flashbang did to that thing following a student in a tie up with a journalist. (7,2)

19. Row to a landmass in the sea. (5)

21. Educated student got dough, or may be won bread. (7)

23. S/he makes a living by selling bloomers. (7)

24. Footwear that will make you walk on a knife’s edge? (9)

25. Tribe going in to temple. (5)

26. Digressions as a team gets in. (6)

27. Special seminar for soldiers. (7)

Down

1. Evangelist or puzzle solver? (14)

2. Fools with brains of an erstwhile REC? (7)

3. Poke fun at a journalist, he’s cooked! (7)

4. Include first vitamin for a meal with father and daughter? That would be a nice platform. (6,3)

5. Stoned and tired? (5)

6. Direction team received from the top causes a bungle. (5,2)

7. Think about getting in a picture. (7)

8. Not confident near the crease? Attempt a run out! (3,2,3,6)

15. Why the cricketers couldn’t give their applications. They were ___ __ ____. (3,2,4)

17. Its one insurer getting in with emphasis. (7)

18. Point of view in a theologian hung freely. (7)

19. A junkie in and around Texan capital turns acquirer. (7)

20. Have a liking for the glove with the pole. (7)

22. Lawyer set backwards some particular days. (5)