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The Hindu Crossword 8483

Across

1 Sounds just the fish for a quick bite (7)

5 A coach employed specifically for training? (4,3)

9 Set apart one so late (7)

10 Runs ashore for logical reasons (7)

11 Consume at teatime (3)

12 Entertain with food and drink (5)

13 Used yet as a fermenting agent (5)

14 Red dog gets a shifty person (6)

15 There is no credit in such a transaction (4,4)

18 Parodic caricature of lancers in the ring (8)

20 Smirk that could be made to impress, say (6)

24 Nurses having ambition in extremes of tenderness (5)

26 Iron through wet cloth or newspaper (5)

27 Unit of electrical resistance (3)

28 Period of stability (7)

29 Racket that should be taken to court (7)

30 Irritated and provoked (7)

31 Tries as forms of literary ridicule (7)

Down

1 Wage for a living (7)

2 A sundry debtor not allowed to develop (7)

3 Quietly confuse childish talk (7)

4 Staggered in a lively dance (6)

5 Meetings for boat races (8)

6 Hard, satirical use of words (5)

7 Choral work is able to add a childish farewell (7)

8 Rose-shaped bunch of ribbons (7)

16 Show garment worn by religious ascetics (4,5)

17 Set forth case for sterling (8)

18 Deposited in imposing style (3,4)

19 State of communication (7)

21 Drop red for one who pokes with pointed instrument (7)

22 The quality of being queer and strangely difficult (7)

23 Serves to get lines of poetry (6)

25 Mere semblance of outward show (5)

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