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Crossword by Raju Bharatan
© Harmony Magazine
1 - How apt it would be if the B in this doe-eyed beauty's name stood for Bangalore, it actually expands into Bairappa! (1 6 4)
8- Called out to counter Roshan-Sahir's Taj Mahalised lament of Kaise naadaan hai sholon koh hawaa de te hain? (4 7)
11 - Sourav's dropping from the Rest of India team, isn't it a clarion call to Rahul to so raise his game at one-slip? (2 2)
12- Bina Rai to 'Salim' Pradeep Kumar (4)
13 - A Rao hub for a swift-running bird (7)
15 - Trust Fedex to be so just when they are talking of showing him the locker-room door! (2 1 4)
16 - What's even the Woman of Substance sans it? (5)
17 - Mangeshkar of Mangeshkars? Not for us! (4)
18 - The Times Group papers' publisher was, for as long as this compiler is able to recall (1 3)
19 - Mark Tully's problem: he ceased to be one cast in the BBC mould (5)
21 - What the Buddha-Mamta imbroglio all but turned the Tatas' Nano into (1 3 3)
22 - Given by Bapu Nadkarni through 21.5 overs (in the January 1963 Madras Test vs Mike Smith's England) for final figures of 32-27-5-0 in the very first innings played during 5 drawn Tests! (3 1 3)
23 - The 4 letters of Hema aren't the 4 letters of …, are they? (4)
26 - No longer Shilpa Shetty's spot response to who'd carry the Sunny-knighted Geoffrey Boycott's helmet? (1 3)
27 - Shiva's gift to televised sport? (3 5 3)
28 - Devtaa tum ho meraa sahaaraa, main ne thhamaa hai daaman tumhaaraa (5 6)
2 - Opening enough to send Khushwant Singh's imagination racing! (4)
3 - Her sort, they speechify (7)
4 - In his prime, Murali did the best of batsmen (4)
5 - Damning description of Rin Tin Tin? (7)
6 - Methu follower (4)
7 - On the younger one, so cutely giving Ashok Kumar the Dharmendra slip, it's, remember, not Lata but Suman ghosting Rahen na rahen hum (8 3)
8 - Trust any digitalised edition of a Marilyn Monroe film to have the Blonde Bombshell shaping up, even more sharply, as … (6 5)
9 -Attractive White girl, delicate and fair-skinned, is what Chattaikkari Laxmi looked as Julie (7 4)
10 - At a (1956) point in his career, when he'd moved away from such a norm of music, he conjured Eena meena deeka in one swing of the baton, upon a mischievous assistant's suggesting he could no longer 'do an O P Nayyar' (1 10)
14 - We'd have America to thank if we got to view India-Pakistan so poised, all over again, in a cricket 'match' (2 3)
15 - No neo illicit haunt? (5)
19 - Hopefully the Hundred of Hundreds still to flow from Ten's MRF blade (4 3)
20 - State of mind revealing comedian Prakash to be disinterested in his role? (7)
24 - Just the thing needed to implement Eden Gardens weeding out of talent (1 3)
25 - Sex-symbolic of Sugardaddy Dev Anand's being wrapped up in a Youthful One at all times (4)
26 - Uthupam? (4)
