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The Hindu Crossword 8660

Across

1 Secured against loss or injury (7)

5 Win causing quiet churchman trouble (7)

9 A predicament to accept either choices, both untenable (7)

10 Strain of rattling one's tin (7)

11 Very hot pepper of special pungency (5)

12 Boring i.e. a wayward native inhabitant (9)

13 Reckless person took risks with vile cocktail (4,5)

15 Not proper to leap at copper, to implore (5)

16 Direct supplier of beef (5)

18 Barker the rubicund stationer (3,6)

21 What the trouser press puts, or intensifies (9)

24 Copy one thousand, given time (5)

25 Strange knit to split pea-plant (7)

26 The French to trace out sugar syrup (7)

27 The underworld class is all cut up (7)

28 Answers for laboratory workers (7)

Down

1 Dunce I'd mistakenly brought on (7)

2 One goes in to join one in the army (7)

3 Memo about a lot of unsold books (9)

4 Mad gunner makes a theatrical entertainment (5)

5 The Irishman took a turn on the beat (9)

6 Cross Channel listlessness (5)

7 Foolish when I have one over the eight (7)

8 Oil applied to bats, wild in Leeds (7)

14 Bright as a button and beautifully turned out (4,5)

15 A top man's pride sent crashing (9)

16 Unilateral defence against barking? (7)

17 Inspires advance in sex change (7)

19 It became obsolete when the market backed the automobile (4,3)

20 Refers to Oriental in disguise, for marijuana cigarettes (7)

22 Irene in trouble turns to him (5)

23 It's a right created string instrument (5)

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