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Miscellaneous - Crossword

The Hindu Crossword No. 8256

Across

1 Can a code stuck within a denial be unravelled? Impossible to figure out (14)

8 Marsupial unable to feel heat — not half (6)

9 Macphail, say, liberated unharmed (4-4)

11 A piano for the little one: great! (4, 5)

12 Pale old tennis ace with new beginning (5)

13 Complex proteins turn leader of medicos sneezy (7)

15 Cluster of leaves arranged in a mechanical procedure (7)

17 Botany e.g. is no fraud on the sense of right and wrong (7)

19 Quarrel, with secondary consequences (7)

21 Wise men caught — wonderful (5)

23 One setting the speed in a race, cutting second off of an arbitrator (9)

25 "Lucid" is a misrepresentation of "self-destructive"(8)

26 Language of the northeast, one derived from Sanskrit (6)

27 Amazing quality of sound put senses at risk (14)

Down

1 Mean and base, as Thomas Gray termed the strife of the madding crowd (7)

2 Disbanding troops from crude mobsters' units (5)

3 Accuse a chap of being a leader of workmen (9)

4 He may reduce messages to a cipher (7)

5 Cavities in bones of worker upset artist (5)

6 Throat and leg operation is to be performed moderately slowly (9)

7 A meeting to get the spirits going? (6)

10 God of war causes harm (4)

14 The spirit of the time shown by, for example, IIT somehow in keen excitement (9)

16 The formal atmosphere in the only eating place around the north (9)

17 Missile, very big, a yummy Indian thing (6)

18 Give a clear account of what was once not beautiful (7)

19 The reality of a fertilizer company (4)

20 Third in Latin, true; it's sad (7)

22 An ape, that man in Cape Province (5)

24 The rogue in the deck (5)

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