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The Hindu Crossword 8376

Across

1 Management of public affairs rightly (14)

9 Implores to give medical treatment (8)

10 Take away with sudden motion (5)

12 Play wildly and joyfully (4)

13 Injure with hot liquid or vapour (5)

14 Natural elevation (4)

17 Rally of scouts (8)

18 Brass instrument like trumpet (6)

20 Rainy day putting depression on outdoor activities (6)

22 Opportunity for a cause (8)

25 Prevailing fashion or custom (4)

26 Costly structure considered useless (5)

27 East end building extension (4)

30 Great administrator and former Prime Minister of our land (5)

31 Nuclear deterrents that used to be good for a toast (8)

32 The desert is somewhere for attaining prosperity (1,5,2,3,3)

Down

2 Least amount possible (7)

3 Model standard (4)

4 Dutiful looking customs officer perhaps (8)

5 Take stock of other people (6)

6 Considerable collection of dwellings (4)

7 Provisional conviction short of proof (7)

8 It opens a disreputable cupboard and everything else (8,3)

11 Decision reached without sufficient evidence (11)

15 The output of industry combed, a darling (5)

16 This moral diversion is a crusher (5)

19 Boy I finally gather in as a kitchen worker (8)

21 Central part of a boat (7)

23 I'm badly upset by such a drive (7)

24 Bet a lot to restrain from drinking out of this vessel (6)

28 Emanation diffused by a person (4)

29 Become entangled in a snare (4)

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