New Delhi, July 31 -- LIVE, LEVEL, PAIRS, GREY and AND across; LEARN, IVIED, VERY, ELS and LPGA down.

1-Across (LIVE), 8-Across (AND), and 1-Down (LEARN) together spell out LIVE AND LEARN, the idiom for growing wiser through experience. Three hints are below before the full breakdown.

Hint 1: Three entries combine to form a four-word idiom about learning from mistakes. One is an Across, one is a Down, and one connects them.Hint 2: One Across answer is a mustard brand famous for a very polite TV commercial.Hint 3: One Down clue signals its own answer by capitalizing certain letters inside the clue text itself.

Across

1A: LIVE (With 8-Across and 1-Down, grow from your own mistakes). The first piece of today's theme phrase, anchoring the...