Crossword for Friday 11 September 2026

Across

1. 1. "Where are you ____ out of?"
2. 6. You can wear one, so can a pen
3. 9. _____ instructions: text on an oximeter box, say
4. 10. Name of an AI company, electric vehicle manufacturer and taxi service
5. 11. Cut for the best tandoori chicken
6. 12. Hot bath that turns potatoes and flour into a samosa
7. 13. When repeated, the time displayed on a watch in a showroom
8. 14. Rice pancake from a wok, served with stew
9. 16. (Marathi/Hindi) Illegal betting, or power, depending on how you say it
10. 18. Haunted-house doors have creaky ones
11. 22. In addition
12. 25. Pulled the curtains, or a gun
13. 26. Sultan who died with his sword raised
14. 27. Shilpa Shetty's morning routine, say
15. 28. Time on an airport screen
16. 29. What someone lost in a maze needs, with "out"

Down

1. 1. Jokes and cigarettes have one
2. 2. Test series whose urn trophy holds these, of a bail
3. 3. Badminton's Nehwal
4. 4. According to legend, there are 100 ways to cook one
5. 5. (Hindi, often slang) Of a rural origin
6. 6. A place to find 4D
7. 7. Sita from Alpha
8. 8. Where destiny is written, for some
9. 15. An ancient dynasty in Tamilakam, also a cricketer
10. 17. Shakespearean "you"
11. 19. What acquired tastes do on you
12. 20. (Telugu) Fly, or Rajamouli's 2012 film about one
13. 21. Rooted, side-to-side motion of someone a few drinks down
14. 22. What Adam did to the forbidden fruit
15. 23. Awesome or exciting, to GenZ
16. 24. Glow-up spot, maybe