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The Hindu Crossword 8623

Across

1 If you do, you may expect barks and bites (4,1,3)

6 Old Bob, fool, is self-satisfied (4)

9 Herbal man (6)

10 Free sailor loves to wander (7)

13 Profit in a pecuniary manner (4,5)

14 Bill about southern land measures (5)

15 Fresh start to trap the amphibian (4)

16 By the way, it throws light (6,4)

19 It gives one some higher standing (4-6)

21 Good man soaked in first-class wine (4)

24 Otto makes a tart squirm (5)

25 Selected from a number (6,3)

26 Wearing a loose dress, Kirti, not I, was in the front (7)

27 Alas! Go back to the Railway for compensation (6)

28 Such a sum is a considerable amount (4)

29 Learned M — berated city officials (8)

Down

2 It is raised in surprise (7)

3 Both parents taken round an international canal (6)

4 Blew up the school in the past (9)

5 Meat juice in Agra vying for consumption (5)

7 Disease may produce first-class alarm (7)

8 They may be used in a rep's stage makeup (12)

11 Begins jumps (6)

12 Spiv at Wimbledon? (6,6)

17 Took something to keep oneself fit (9)

18 Nothing singular about this! (6)

20 Wrote in and took part in competition (7)

22 Standing firm in the rush to plague (7)

23 One who gives patient attention (6)

25 Where in a stupa duality is celebrated (5)

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