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The Hindu Crossword 8643

Across

1 Animal to throw its rider to one of the pack? (9)

5 Drug addict maybe (4)

8 Place for scientific investigations (3)

9 Tallest living animal (7)

10 Rather before on time (3)

11 Excel in performance (5)

12 Ten narrow cords hard to operate (9)

13 Bring in better soldiers to improve quality of a force (7)

15 Fly set again to carry many diseases (6)

17 Pay back expenses incurred (6)

18 A snobbish get-together in a sound way (7)

21 A chicken maybe, to bind and pack (9)

22 Silly to be somewhat in an ecstasy (5)

24 Travel precipitately (3)

25 Len with aces enfolds tightly (7)

26 Notice one included help (3)

27 Minute fragments and grit found here (4)

28 Hung up and sued to spend somehow (9)

Down

1 Instrument for creating stream of air (7)

2 Old measure of a piece of copper (5)

3 Acceptable to be causing an insurrection (8)

4 Put out of shape and make ugly (6)

5 Give some thought to a royal engineer on business bent (3,4,6)

6 Force of thought to be physically manifested occult means (9)

7 In the middle there is pronounced perfume (6)

9 Grow to dislike one's boss to the point of total unreason? (2,3,4,4)

14 Laze in fun possibly but not when suffering from this (9)

16 Measured movements especially of sound (8)

17 Engineers' wrong to answer back (6)

19 Made submission and surrendered (7)

20 Dagger mark to lobe us (6)

23 Render presentation as gift (5)

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