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The Hindu Crossword No. 8670

Across

1 Where recorder presides on tripod surrounded by buildings (9)

5 The right to withhold another's property sounds slender (4)

8 Soft stuffing used to diminish jarring (3)

9 Bustle up to use horse-rider's foot-rest (7)

10 Come to perceive (3)

11 Terminated at the extremity (5)

12 Asked earnestly to treat need (9)

13 Step towards aping wisdom (7)

15 A very noisy boy commits a breach of peace (6)

17 Beloved of Venus (6)

18 Supervise doing work (7)

21 Aphrodite's emaciated form (9)

22 In the loch realised there was some red clay (5)

24 Tree with serrated leaves (3)

25 Of invisible image that may be developed (7)

26 Considerable number (3)

27 Of holiday in safe territory (4)

28 Addicted to plunder or robbery (9)

Down

1 The tree Percy's treated with sulphur? (7)

2 Successfully dealt with a knotty problem (5)

3 A liquer I put down before going out (8)

4 Remove part or all of burden of rates (6)

5 We can't recall being affected by one (5,2,6)

6 Simple modes of expression in Never-Never land (4,5)

7 Causing fatal injury (6)

9 We do not think to act upon it (6,7)

14 I am not ready, says the computer reading a schedule (9)

16 Make more compact (8)

17 Diminished and made to grow less (6)

19 Set uprightly or rigidly (7)

20 Highest point of excellence (6)

23 Beginning of a telephone conversation (5)

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