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The Hindu Crossword No. 8638

Across

1 Suitableness could be a restriction (13)

10 Watering hole, legal, ending anonymity, gets a build-up (9)

11 A horseman's condition (5)

12 Careful South Indian Vaishnavite? (5)

13 Revealing but allowing no come back (7,2)

14 Seeing visions is vague and impractical (6)

16 Hairstyle with a bit of a reversed partial ponytail (5)

19 An attempt at literary composition (5)

20 Port that does as designed (6)

25 Be of one mind with Ramon: he is reformed (9)

26 The cost of income? Just the opposite (5)

27 A woman wears it at a conservative festival (5)

28 Universal charge that is mistaken for tactlessness (9)

29 Science of law vocalised in jury's caution (13)

Down

2 Having suffered no defeat, like a not out batsman (8)

3 People (not clergymen) find appeal in ballad (5)

4 Minor weakness — result of bile deficiency (6)

5 Pieces of quartz, say, objects of fortune tellers' attention (8)

6 Panic stricken, tried fire treatment (9)

7 Inescapable concomitant of advancing years (3,3)

8 Possibly hot part of a hospice diet (6)

9 Salt solution found by the British in the east (5)

15 Infamous statesman who ordered non-English limousines (9)

17 Settling differences and preparing to go on stage? (6,2)

18 Mysterious coteries broken up (8)

21 The highest point in the orbit (6)

22 A live-wire experience! (5)

23 Gold-coloured alloy used to decorate furniture etc. (6)

24 Language — Tulu, e.g. revised (6)

26 Pigment found in a loch recently (5)

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The Hindu Crossword No. 8638
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