Saturday, March 30, 2013

Random distribution


A random crossword... variety of topics.. have fun!

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Across

3. Plays colonel Trautman in the Rambo series -(7,6)
5. Word for slaughterhouse (french origin)- (8)
7. Author of Gulag Archipelago - (11)
12. Eusebio turns it around 0-3 to 5-3 in the WC. Venue? -(8)
13. 'Mere pas maa hai' - who plays the ma in this Hindi movie which features this legendary line?-(6,3)
14. Joseph Von Ryan in the war classic - (5, 7)
17. India-Pak ODI game abandoned midway after news of Indira Gandhi's assassination. Where was the match?- (7)
18. German invasion of the Soviet Union - (10)
19. Produce 'seedless' fruit - (13)
20. Who said this about Sanskrit? "more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin" (7,5)

Answers (across)
Richard Crenna
Abattoir
Alexander Solzenitsyn
Goodison Park
Nirupa Roy
Frank Sinatra
Sialkot
Operation Barbarossa
Parthenocarpy
Sir William Jones

Down

1. Middle name of MS Subbulakshmi - (14)
2. A call for a run from him should be treated as no more than a basis for negotiation. Who said this about Denis Compton? - (6,6)
4. Property of Carbon to form long chains - (10)
6. Genetic disease predominantly found in Ashkenazi Jews (3,5)
8. The Nautillus' captain in Jules Verne's classic (4)
9. Traditional practice in Wimbledon abandoned in 2003 -(6)
10. What do AR stand for in the expansion of HAART? (4, 10)
11. Led the Khmer Rouge for 35 years - (3,3)
15. Krishna:Panchajanya::Arjuna:?- (9)
16. Genus of the bacteria causing cholera - (6)

Answers (Down)
Shanmugavadivu
Trevor Bailey
Catenation
Tay Sachs
Nemo
Curtsy
Anti retroviral
Pol Pot
Devadatta
Vibrio