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The Hindu Crossword No. 8636

Across

1 Fairies manage a submarine aid (9)

5 Niagara, say? Not true (5)

8 Divine dispensation — a flood perhaps (3,2,3)

9 Such leave is taken, not granted (6)

11 A fool whom Dostoevsky `booked' (5)

12 In China, cars spread sweetener (9)

13 A sound movie? (6)

14 False display of strange repentance loses a point (8)

16 Contract to rebuild a convent (8)

18 Money for a horse (6)

22 Lead or copper, say, a lowly element (4,5)

23 Meat that could be brought home to mark achievement (5)

24 Banished once, I showed the way (6)

25 To behave imperiously, man of action goes around pit (8)

26 Glasses that, in full form, could be ridiculous things (5)

27 Capable of causing genetic change, anemic gut's treated (9)

Down

1 Liberace, say, seen as part Thespian is timeless (7)

2 A second hearing (2-5)

3 Security provided by company, not a singular advantage (6,2,7)

4 Instrumentalist, an old boy first to carry nothing (6)

5 Temporarily it is a night item before reconstruction (3,3,4,5)

6 "In the — — we are all dead" (Keynes) (4,3)

7 Improve with directions? He can, somehow (7)

10 Singular worry may cause fear (5)

15 Harmony number one (5)

16 Spider networks (7)

17 Human's tail bone, say, a remainder of what once was (7)

19 Dirty blowgun cleaned out in part (7)

20 Brown bit of magic, say, relating to mystic practices (7)

21 A number followed by the majority, practically (6)

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