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The Hindu Crossword 8553

Across

1 There is nothing ordinary in such cinema technique (7,7)

8 Score less than a hundred (6)

9 Man of religion who advises on behaviour (8)

11 Killer of Boston, an alien holding student (9)

12 Eastern ruler is making the supply last (5)

13 Getting close to earning a change (7)

15 Would a C.O. mind becoming itinerant? (7)

17 Shade for a representative in some degree (7)

19 Beneficiary under a policy (7)

21 Ring back around one for flower (5)

23 Where one studied in Latin (4,5)

25 Worn out by direct physical exercise, oddly (8)

26 One of several English kings involved in an antiquated war dance (6)

27 With a dark glance, a dog ran, suggestive of intrigue (5-3-6)

Down

1 Top cover — let it stand, boy! (7)

2 Avid, like the beaver? (5)

3 The purpose in stress, say (9)

4 Serve as a herald with a warning and flee (7)

5 Small latitude in Eastern Europe to fill with exhilaration (5)

6 Revenue official who had trails altered (9)

7 Cheroot thrown up after little time — appalling (6)

10 A bullet for the mollusc (4)

14 Mutation of Gail, clean and like a celestial being (9)

16 Stupid creature, male, in means of mass communication — press, TV, etc. (4,5)

17 Disease a boy got in a month (6)

18 Aibara caught mixing a kind of coffee (7)

19 The culminating point for an expert swallowing a bit of marjoram (4)

20 One who ridicules notes on proviso (7)

22 Each learner turns into a disciple in India (5)

24 Strum the guitar perhaps (5)

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