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The Hindu Crossword No. 8565

Across

1 At any rate, a slow one the stenographer could cope with (9,5)

9 Ask earnestly to tan the trees (8)

10 What a fat person doesn't like to be called (5)

12 One shallow vessel that causes suffering somehow (4)

13 Worse for the wear, to say the least (5)

14 Disagreeable thing that has to be swallowed (4)

17 Rheumatism in the lower back (7)

18 Opt to find a common vegetable (6)

20 Caught the eye of a Christian community in Egypt (6)

22 It is naturally inclined to keep out of sight (8)

25 Convey to carry as load (4)

26 Imitate for satirical effect (5)

27 Make smooth with hard metal (4)

30 Small quantity of weight (5)

31 Again published and taken to court (8)

32 Buggy sort of cabriolet — go sit uncomfortably in it (14)

Down

2 Establish a trick business house? (7)

3 Care about measure of land (4)

4 Idleness indeed (8)

5 Settle comfortably in the snug retreat (6)

6 Pretend to be a certain character (4)

7 Amatory literature (7)

8 Without definite occupation (2,1,5,3)

11 Written request for a job (11)

15 How Aladdin's genie worked (5)

16 Foolishness to follow mostly the unknown (5)

19 I flip around in love with foreigner (8)

21 Softly tune in for this flower (7)

23 He is really say, from this hot country (7)

24 It gives faithful reflection (6)

28 Snug retreat (4)

29 Back so lost in Norway (4)

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