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The Hindu Crossword No. 8539

Across

1 Melt with intense heat (4)

3 Section of links a boy often dressed with oil (5,5)

10 Wood burnt in hearth on Christmas Eve (4,3)

11 The longer they are, the more one can talk? (7)

12 Some American girl (5)

13 Jog one hidden by the rest (9)

14 Press the key this way to get some music (8)

15 Seizes power wrongfully (6)

18 Address boldly whatever the cost (6)

20 Whippings given first take round a tree (8)

24 Hugo wrote about a premonition to bet on (9)

26 Let in for a fee perhaps (5)

27 Track on which wheels run (7)

28 Adds up in writing (7)

29 Kind of person who is not given to dark imaginings, apparently (3,7)

30 Weird and awesome (4)

Down

1 Blank paper at beginning of book (3,4)

2 Man-at-arms serving his nation (7)

4 Habit-forming branch of industry (3,5)

5 Cover up to rise no more (6)

6 Is back in a mountain apparently (5)

7 Transfer funds to make them seem legitimate (7)

8 Prays for unfulfilled longings to be satisfied (7)

9 Yearly calendars with detailed information (8)

16 So to speak breaks the spirit (8)

17 Running shorts or long bags won't help in the event (4,4)

18 Add outside here to be stuck fast (7)

19 Clay inn can be reconstructed shrewdly (7)

21 Somebody named me in one organisation (7)

22 Be equal to meet expectations (7)

23 Tab ray gets barium hydroxide (6)

25 He likes to chop and cut (5)

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