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The Hindu Crossword 8497

Across

1 Given the opportunities, a child break canes (7)

5 Trestle fashioned by an immigrant (7)

9 Five rose to make system subsidiary mechanism trigger the main (5)

10 You'll find them around steamship (9)

11 Russian port using some poetry as uplift? (6)

12 Trimmings for attractive neckware (8)

14 Problem children (5)

15 The queen's content to make cuts exhibiting a democratic spirit (9)

18 Come to rest by evangelist's conspicuous monuments (9)

20 Held by college lecturers due to take up appointments (5)

22 Company member gets engineer to begin (8)

24 Noise in quarter is taken as excuse for not appearing in court (6)

26 Feeling the sieve isn't making a thorough puree of it (9)

27 Spirit of a gazelle (5)

28 Lady with report on the whole affair (7)

29 They try out bed canopies (7)

Down

1 Caught us, to face this sort of sentence (9)

2 On which people may retire, having benefited from inflation (3,4)

3 Support with disagreeable smile (9)

4 Special Air Service takes Henry with a band over his shoulder (4)

5 Indifferent drink available to minor (10)

6 Quietly meet at a place of unsurpassed beauty (5)

7 He comes from country where authorised version of Latin is not spoken (7)

8 He spars with a grating feeling (5)

13 Being good at drawing (10)

16 Electrical devices as art she's to produce (9)

17 Ties up net anyhow and fishes (9)

19 Refusal by colliery to take on English candidate (7)

21 The English aim is sentimental (7)

22 Subjects of investigations (5)

23 She has to take vitamin in any case (5)

25 Well-groomed cattle (4)

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