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The Hindu Crossword No. 8390

Across

1 Troubled GI to serve in distress (7)

5 Take over from a king and two biblical characters (7)

9 Small vehicle (7)

10 The meaning conveyed by the sound of a contented cat at Aden, for example (7)

11 Not proper to alter after the due time (5)

12 The guard re-reading orders (9)

13 Composition of drink taken by priest (9)

15 Bands of people associating together (5)

16 Reserves money for future use (5)

18 Be a subscriber? (9)

21 Dead shy in disposition — in a manner of speaking (9)

24 Appeals solemnly to something holy for the truth of a statement (5)

25 Ivan makes a run to a ship in revolting (7)

26 Friendly agreement made for a canvas shelter housed in English quarter (7)

27 An unsound tenet may expose her (7)

28 Elgar variation on the way to being the most grandiose? (7)

Down

1 Girls start with simply designed school tunic (7)

2 Sets on fire when you singe it properly (7)

3 Clergyman incurs debt on behalf of another (9)

4 Skinhead getting on top of goody goody youth (5)

5 Rebuke salesman giving red hen the runaround (9)

6 She left Nora in a turmoil (5)

7 Feeling allows movement to follow direction (7)

8 Draws money out by violence (7)

14 Plenty of refreshment available during a ball (9)

15 A killer and degenerate admitted to an order (9)

16 Sarah, an eccentric of the desert (7)

17 Five make noise to point at game (7)

19 Passionate on how verbs should be used? (7)

20 Just beginning the Eiger's greatest challenge (7)

22 He is afflicted with severest degree of intellectual subnormality (5)

23 Bombastic being elated with emotion (5)

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