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The Hindu Crossword 8640

Across

1 Important part of diet for a professional youngster, reportedly (7)

5 Large deer, a dear part of Indian cooking (6)

11 One lady lost in ancient part of Asia Minor (5)

12 They bear the water-carrier's sign (9)

13 Hiding or showing a film (9)

14 Policeman getting points from dense growth of bushes (5)

15 Old Peruvian in a plain cathartic state (4)

17 One more of the same kind on earth possibly (7)

21 Minded taking in the French but approved (7)

22 Players getting drink before start of match (4)

26 Ward off part of retrograde jobcentre vagaries (5)

27 Attire of Gandhian simplicity (9)

29 Pay back with a laterite formation (9)

30 Cheerless redhead embraced by loved one (5)

31 The fabric of crazy artists (6)

32 Bitterness in South Asian group as plenum ends (7)

Down

2 Navigator's aid, either way you look at it (5)

3 Businessman trashes red art (7)

4 It is used for making dyes for one glossy fabric (6)

6 Acts of savagery, awful rot in a big town (8)

7 Take the Lord's name in vain (9)

8 Meat for the more impetuous (6)

9 One castle rebuilt with pliable material (7)

10 Word play by a man is caustic (7)

16 Composed and brought together in one volume (9)

18 Could a male cultivate a woman's scarf ? (8)

19 Revolutionary advance in poisonous oxide (3,4)

20 A measure of progress endlessly voiced in Greek (or Roman) vessel (7)

23 Aromatic liquid from a part of the sea? Odd (3,3)

24 Films that came in for editing (6)

25 10 down, a detective in charge (6)

28 Does as told in an order? Yes, heartlessly (5)

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