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The Hindu Crossword 8499

Across

1 Time off for one expecting ... (9,5)

8 ... a discount by current dealers in price (6)

9 Set of bells with which to visit someone around Rhode Island (8)

11 To empower a writer is English (9)

12 Music in the heart of a puritan going dancing (5)

13 Mutinous, but fainted when in a tizzy (7)

15 Expropriate old record in campaign (7)

17 Food served at a place, to the French, is a spectacle (7)

19 PMO sure spells out who is in overall authority (7)

21 Rules, they say, for wet weather (5)

23 British sailors chained — curious impediment (9)

25 Brown's back in step — only to languish (8)

26 Chinese system of callisthenics (3,3)

27 PCO designed to keep hot lines OK (9,5)

Down

1 Imaginary creature, a dream I'm making up (7)

2 Area in the east, a part where the glitterati better their chances (5)

3 The grounds on which to restrict the supply of drink (9)

4 Time to think up new resolutions? (4,3)

5 Live with eleven in an eastern way (5)

6 Card expressing love designed by Venetian student (9)

7 Nap makes Poles dribble (6)

10 Where money is made (4)

14 Invent a brief act somehow (9)

16 The Times, say, to support a book (9)

17 Rely on including husband in drive (6)

18 Release from the yoke (7)

19 Symbol, reportedly, of a trigonometric function (4)

20 Pillar — an honour bestowed on new silk (7)

22 Superficial burn caused by some fireworks in general (5)

24 Mexican dish can upset habitual offender (5)

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