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The Hindu Crossword 8662

Across

1 Communication device to help clone production (9)

5 Constable, artist, finds source of oil (5)

8 Substance initially derived from carbon, oxygen, barium, antimony, lithium and titanium (6)

9 Bird left gazing all around (8)

11 Instrument to evoke key spirit (4)

12 A mean fellow, he takes cap around (10)

14 Language quirk of old African leader getting order (5)

15 Nearest interpretation of seriousness (7)

16 Muse of song (7)

17 One doing needlework in a drain (5)

19 With which to shoot American church building (4,6)

20 Blackleg's cover for injury (4)

22 Packing for legal action perhaps (8)

23 Make a cut in a trendy measure, say (6)

24 Fear of those gone carrying the beginning of rubella (5)

25 A handspring, acrobatic revolution! (9)

Down

1 Insect with some thoracic adaptation (6)

2 Mutinous Brit leaves union in which much of the costs are due to wages (6-9)

3 A tree on hand (4)

4 The kind of perception that a psychic could have (12)

5 Bottle openers seal prison officials (10)

6 What a civil surgeon may be permitted to do is not the general routine (7,8)

7 Add to Aunt Meg's discomfiture (7)

10 Performance by a small orchestra in summer: Bachic variation (7,5)

13 Flavouring agent for an ersatz drink (6,4)

16 Forgiven and released from duty (7)

18 Sailors lie back and come down by rope (6)

21 Fall in winter reveals love in three directions (4)

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