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THE HINDU CROSSWORD 8559

Across

1 Where to find trash (11)

9 Shortfall cited, if wrongly (7)

10 Groundnut or sesame? (7)

11 Drug for a power yearning (5)

12 Alert men begin moving craftily to cause hindrance (9)

13 "Vortex" editor died unknown (4)

15 A negative would suffice? Impossible (2,3,2)

19 At a great distance, shout something different (1,3,3)

20 Fertilizer from manure adds quality (4)

24 Broadcast and support a passage (9)

25 A vegetable said to be scorched (5)

27 Card game in an Illinois city (7)

28 Letters showing right tilt (7)

29 Burglar's aid for accessing scandalous secrets? (8,3)

Down

1 In conflict, iron provides something to eat (5)

2 Religious but, oddly, scared (6)

3 High regard is what 'e encounters on return (6)

4 Operative procedure for a robot in trouble (8)

5 Infectious disease of poor Lazar a.k.a. black fever (4-4)

6 Eleventh month of revolutionary calendar which figures in a lobster dish (9)

7 A commercial selected and taken over (7)

8 In which a lad ultimately becomes a grown up (5)

14 Bloomers found in Wordsworth's lines (9)

16 Gibbon, for one, a grand imitator! (5,3)

17 Some figures that assist the mail sorter (4,4)

18 Fallout of wood work (7)

21 Flavouring that is the role of variety in life (5)

22 Wool producer from Jaisalmer in olden times (6)

23 Anti-aircraft fire getting doubly but briefly acknowledged (3-3)

26 Cordial disposition of a girl accepting appeal (5)

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