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The Hindu Crossword No. 8490

Across

1 Vaulting? No, walking after losing face! (7)

5 Use some complex pendulums (6)

9 Flag doctor out in a hospital department (5)

10 Decide to stop Pit (9)

11 Honourably discharged Emir, tie having snapped (7)

12 Publicity by the girl about old gland (7)

13 Ray has replaced foot (5)

14 Effecting a kind of severe punishment (9)

16 Apprehensively crushes velours in New York (9)

19 Two companies produce a drink (5)

21 Uneasy mania about Information Bureau in an African country (7)

23 Digression from a brown guy (7)

24 Became a sailor (4,2,3)

25 The hump in some bridges (5)

26 Poke your nose in mix-up with a slight alteration (6)

27 Obtains or makes safe (7)

Down

1 In which case the letter you sent will bounce (7,7)

2 Actor-politician real annoyed about disease (7)

3 I am the type to make an impression (7)

4 It comes ahead of cleanliness, proverbially (9)

5 In addition to one of the crowd (5)

6 Upstart gives standard location no finishing touch (7)

7 Man from Kerala gets sash somewhere in Kenya (7)

8 She has a prominent part to play (7,7)

15 Mummies' nationalities? (9)

17 A novel language (7)

18 Novel editor, carrying book, went round (7)

19 This may go with con-, ego- or geo-(7)

20 Somehow reach around the cleric for cheese (7)

22 Religious passage - a blend of lies (5)

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