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The Hindu Crossword No. 7963

Across

1 Hoover's means of getting rid of dirt (6,7)

10 Team poet (Scottish) gets whiskers (9)

11 Feast in a rocky ravine (5)

12 Powdered grain is a bloomer, reportedly (5)

13 Drink (cider) from two fruits (5,4)

14 Old American general with method found elbowroom (6)

16 Taking too much interest (5)

19 Street urchin to acquire about a thousand (5)

20 From an old manor a kind of warm jacket (6)

25 A gadget to place plain correctly (9)

26 Dessert that is said to be disastrous failure (5)

27 Dimwit to waste time about redhead (5)

28 Quiet! Bert is fashioning a block of fuel (9)

29 Loss of goodwill for CMG, all for fear of reform (4,4,5)

Down

2 Steroid that may promote male characteristics and initially recharge old general (8)

3 Dark brown colour of OT book without covers (5)

4 Pestle's partner (6)

5 Final delivery of mail with a bugle call to retire (4,4)

6 Try to catch fish and press for steel structural bar (5,4)

7 Cerumen makes hearing apparatus grow larger (6)

8 Practical for you and me, processing fuel (6)

9 Such a container cannot hold water (5)

15 A share, one pound, cannot be called sensible (9)

17 Is sin, say, an obstruction to finding the chief ore of mercury? (8)

18 A sentimental chap, losing heart, is pleasantly pungent (8)

21 Person in charge of other people is to look after queen (6)

22 "Good morning, mom" says a Greek character (5)

23 Box with volunteers in capital of old Doric state (6)

24 Light gas produces a buzz around Celia's heart (6)

26 More depressed because rouble is in trouble? Nothing lost (5)

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