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Miscellaneous - Crossword

The Hindu Crossword 8661

Across

1 Rotting corpse with clue in blood cell (5,9)

8 Attend to a breakdown, go there (6)

9 They help a horse look ahead (8)

11 That is Mac, suffering with a breathing difficulty (9)

12 Strainer is back with the first day (5)

13 Agamemnon's daughter in a select radical group (7)

15 Omen now deciphered as indicating a periodic phase of a satellite (3,4)

17 Vehicle that Bertram carefully parked inside (7)

19 Preferences of gentlemen on screen? (7)

21 Roam around looking for a fight in extremes of peril (5)

23 Good feature, round thing that makes the car move (9)

25 Briskness seen in a city in the U.S.: shout about it! (8)

26 Fisherman, compleat one booked by Walton (6)

27 Preliminary inspection for development of non-scenic areas (14)

Down

1 Military exercise, a sport in conflict? (3,4)

2 Putin's strange contribution (5)

3 Mysterious image in Connecticut unscrambled (9)

4 Bird gets lice scampering in cooking vessel (7)

5 Big star is upset by cavity in facial bones (5)

6 Feudal superior or idle ogler, perhaps (5,4)

7 Nautically backwards (6)

10 Location of the forge of Volcan in Italy (4)

14 Highly complicated tale: a bore, however (9)

16 Players of the flute, clarinet and so on (9)

17 Superior cover that has to accommodate work (3,3)

18 A side, working and up-to-date (5-2)

19 Could an old magistrate be a ruler? (4)

20 Bout of extravagance in a place in a sudden mass movement (7)

22 Some music from a popular golden album (5)

24 The Spanish and French name of a girl (5)

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