THE HINDU CROSSWORD CORNER: No.10891, 30 Sep 2013, Klue Klux Klan

THE HINDU CROSSWORD CORNER

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No.10891, 30 Sep 2013, Klue Klux Klan Sep 30th 2013, 03:00, by Kishore KKK presents a thriller with some beheadings (in 4a, 13a), some de-tailing (in 1d), a MALEFIC OCCULTIST and a SHOWER and a bath orgy (in 8d) with a houri (in 15a) ACROSS 1 Female protected feline from damage (6) SCATHE (SHE protected CAT) 4 Cause of beheading: betrayal (6) REASON (tREASON) 9 Young salmon for erstwhile English queen (4)  PARR (2) 10 Bricklayer traps one character, edges away to apartment (10) MAISONETTE (MASON traps 1, lETTEr) 11 Lavish display, ever hollow (6) SHOWER (SHOW EveR) 12 Is he an insect-giant? (8) BEHEMOTH (BE HE MOTH) 13 Notice ally, beheaded monarch uniting (9) ADJOINING (AD JOIN kING) 15 Tamil Nadu town uncentered by one nymph (5) HOURI (HOsUR 1)            I understand from a cartoon I recently saw that heaven has put up a 'No Stock' board 16 Plum-mixed cocktail loses kick, tastes like starters (5) ICACO (COCKTAIL)* 18 Formerly make amends by association with captured headman (2,3,4) AT ONE TIME (ATONE TIE with captured Man) 22 Equal weapon, so to speak (8) PARLANCE (PAR LANCE) 23 Tough crow, not trim, frail (6) UPHILL (triUmPH ill) 25 Pep her sick, odd-looking dog (10) SCHIPPERKE (PEP HER SICK)*            Schipperke reminded me of the lisping Kripke from the comedy mentioned in 8d.             "Kids wove me: There's just something about me that makes them waugh and waugh."  26 Regularly incur two women's slang? Enough! (4)  NUFF (iNcUr FF, 2 females) 27 Hate of Spanish examination (6) DETEST (DE TEST) 28 Scout confused about one language (6) TSOUIC (SCOUT* about 1)   DOWN 1 Tailless bird, lost, made splashing noise (7) SWASHED (SWAn SHED) 2 Pointer to let directions change (5) ARROW (ALLOW -LL+ RR, lefts changed to rights) 3 Base hit, shattered Rome protected by Attila, for one (4,3) HOME RUN  (ROME* protected by HUN) 5 Retrospective coverage captures first human's times (6) EPOCHS (SCOPE< captures H) 6 Side with snake in good man's vessel (9) STEAMBOAT (TEAM BOA in ST.) 7 Swimmer's infant regularly loses at dart board? Nothing odd (7) NATATOR (iNfAnT dArTbOaRd)            Natator reminded me of Piscine Molitor, the protagonist of Life of Pi, who was named after a swimming pool 8 Organise bath orgy binge to explain formation of universe (3,4,6) THE BIG BANG THEORY (BATH ORGY BINGE)*            The Big Bang Theory is at the centre of comedy universe!  14 One who studies the supernatural is bizarre, stoic, shelters cult (9) OCCULTIST (STOIC* shelters CULT) 17 Exalted Celt leader replaced some Englishmen, found… (7) CHANCED (ENHANCED with En replaced by C) 19 …doctors initially needed for head of news agency (7) NEUTERS (N instead of R in REUTERS) 20 Man, first in charge, evil (7) MALEFIC (MALE F IC) 21 Attacks Oriental caught in crops (6) SNIPES (E caught in SNIPS) 24 This paper's sources have important news delivered upfront (5) HINDU (H I N D U)             Should this have been THE HINDU?

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