Mar 9 clues & answers
Every clue of this Indian mini crossword by Mangesh Ghogre, with the answer and, where it helps, how the wordplay works. Solve it yourself first: the puzzle is open to subscribers.
Across
- 1A Femina or Meri Saheli, slangily MAG
- 4A “Having said ____ . . .” THAT
- 8A "Now!" letters ASAP
- 12A Cricketer ___ Kirsten GARY
- 13A Healthy HALE
- 14A Ate DINED
- 16A Type of number rarely taught in math class ITEM In the Wordbook: Item
- 17A ____ Woods, "Legally Blonde" protagonist ELLE
- 18A Discourage DETER
- 19A Message from MG THANKYOUSOLVERS
- 22A Attacks ASSAILS
- 23A ____ hours (when many solve MG Mini!) WEE
- 24A NBC comedy show since 1975, briefly SNL
- 25A JLo in "___ in Manhattan" (2002) MAID
- 27A ___ the wrong way RUB
- 30A "That's huge!" SOBIG
- 33A Many a one is enjoyed in Lonavala rains CORN
- 34A "Jana ___ Mana..." GANA
- 35A Occassion for MG's message THOUSANDMGMINIS
- 38A Sundaram Keralam festivalam? ONAM In the Wordbook: Onam
- 39A Follow the rules OBEY
- 40A Diminish in intensity ABATE
- 41A Nursery purchase POT
- 42A Parabola shapes ARCS
- 43A IPL 2025 winner (abbr.) RCB
- 44A Cricket scoreboard heading WKT
- 45A Commands BEHESTS
- 49A Message from MG IMSOHAPPYFORYOU
- 54A "We're ____ for each other!": MG to solvers MEANT
- 55A Loan revision, in brief REFI
- 56A Fe, in Chemistry IRON
- 57A Winter jacket PARKA
- 58A ___-B: Colgate rival ORAL
- 59A Vadlapati Vijayalakshmi aka ___ Smitha SILK
- 60A Make-up artist? LIAR
- 61A Roll up, as a flag FURL
- 62A "Rumor ____ It" (Adele hit) HAS
Down
- 1D "Go figure" subject in school MATHS
- 2D Calculus calculations AREAS
- 3D Place to do deadlifts GYMNASIUM
- 4D "___ never know what hit 'em!" THEYLL
- 5D Saintly glows HALOS
- 6D Tollywood's ___ Arjun ALLU
- 7D Golfer's pocketful TEES
- 8D Confused ADDLED
- 9D Tea making essential SIEVE
- 10D Up the ___ ANTE
- 11D Journal article reviewer PEER
- 12D Bhagavad ___ GITA
- 15D Tech. to review umpire's decision DRS
- 20D ___ College: top university in London KINGS
- 21D Outstanding OWING
- 25D Good manners? MODES
- 26D BTS ____ (K-pop group's fan base) ARMY
- 27D Daggubati of "Baahubali" RANA
- 28D Tesla, for one UNIT
- 29D Everest ___ Camp BASE
- 30D "Enough!" STOP
- 31D "I'm in big trouble!" OHNO
- 32D One making bank-to-bank transfers? BOAT
- 33D Stock watcher's TV channel CNBC
- 34D thaw rbbishu si shit? GIBBERISH
- 36D Major artery AORTA
- 37D Very masculine, like Hanuman MACHO
- 42D Bollywood surname that aptly rhymes with actor AKHTAR
- 43D Common printer's ink purchase REFILL
- 44D "Willy ____ & the Chocolate Factory" WONKA
- 45D "... hands down" BYFAR
- 46D Neighbor of Turkey SYRIA
- 47D Screwdriver, axe and saw TOOLS
- 48D Submerged, as Titanic SUNK
- 49D Childish nuisance IMP
- 50D Lunch or dinner MEAL
- 51D Nauvari, say SARI In the Wordbook: Sari
- 52D Coll. teacher PROF
- 53D Machu Picchu country PERU
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