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The Hindu Crossword 8416

Across

1 Spare serving men wait at table (7)

5 Being in dazed state, Ned crashed cart (7)

9 Hot displeasure provoked over an incident (5)

10 Work out the derivation of a cute call (9)

11 Jewel thieves who possibly are hitmen (6)

12 Heavenly present for use inside and elsewhere (8)

14 American sappers find tin with sodium substance (5)

15 Cunningly put nearer entrance (9)

18 Shoot the underworld boss as a liability (9)

20 Bright and well-honed (5)

22 A characteristic of houses perhaps (9)

24 A protective plate is held to deflect weapons (6)

26 People using private transport could be a bloomer (9)

27 A gem weighing fourteen pounds! (5)

28 Proper respect shown to a haunting premonition (7)

29 Where those making the effort feel on top of the world! (7)

Down

1 Straightened out crooked redealing (9)

2 Pieces ten gems together another way (7)

3 This element is thin on the ground (4,5)

4 Every new ache separately considered (4)

5 Mean business when you have discussions with a foreign country (4,6)

6 Take undue advantage to deceive (5)

7 A country house in a French vineyard (7)

8 Daughter has a good condition mineral spring to reside (5)

13 The bad habit of keeping things to yourself? (6,4)

16 Quickly seeing through an affectation that's phoney (9)

17 Means suitable to an end manoeuvre (9)

19 Cat that's an awful nuisance (7)

21 One garden flower shaped like a needle (7)

22 Plays on quietly to effect agreements (5)

23 The old perform in a precise manner (5)

25 At sometime many may be absorbed in one (4)

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