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The Hindu Crossword 8698

Across

1 Fail to make a thorough go of tying the knot? (4,5)

6 Muslim chief and religious leader (5)

9 Card game resembling rummy (7)

10 Fail to come up to expectations (3,4)

11 Still attics are untidy (6)

12 Deep gorge with stream (6)

15 What meaner disposition of a meteorologist (7,3)

16 God's beautiful creation looking towards the sky (4)

18 Enable to get over difficulty (4)

19 Means of passing one's time (10)

23 A ticket to give back (6)

25 Time at which something is plentiful (6)

28 Spray for treatment of roseola (7)

29 Simplest member of the paraffin series (7)

30 A crucial or difficult point (5)

31 Whimsical in the style of a musicologist (9)

Down

1 Tool for cutting metal (7)

2 Help to advance a factory worker (4,1,4)

3 Dried leaves used as narcotic (7)

4 Shallow lidless box forming compartment in trunk (4)

5 Grasp where the cargo is (4)

6 Forty winks? (6)

7 Outrageously foolish person (5)

8 In France maybe redhead leaves money (7)

13 Trained animal's unusual action (5)

14 Uncertain or ill-defined meaning you gave (5)

17 Replace in lost position (9)

18 Winter rainfall for the tract of land (7)

20 Free from harmful bacteria (7)

21 Home shared by unmarried sisters (7)

22 Decisive moment in time of danger (6)

24 Exhausted and become weary (5)

26 Combination of parties to foster a particular interest (4)

27 Short for ammunition (4)

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