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The Hindu Crossword 8702

Across

1 Speed rate (8)

5 Have harmony, son, in marriage (6)

9 The present time appears sad? No way! (8)

10 Here's aromatic liquid: rub may be effective (3-3)

12 Expel some of the jousters (4)

13 Waste of tar by spilling causes friction between parties (5,2,3)

15 Doctor in mere operation exposes leg (6)

17 Praise ten in embroidered tale (5)

20 Rapid writer (5)

21 World body's assistance is retracted (6)

24 Such prices are announced during "sales" (4-6)

27 Assist youth losing headgear (4)

29 Half of them had a trick to use (6)

30 Nipponese tosses a coin for a shrub (8)

31 Talks about southern mountains (6)

32 Last month, I in a Bombay suburb made a judgment (8)

Down

1 A number to finish with an alternative seller (6)

2 We lost. Perhaps, the kind of score which would make anyone lose! (6)

3 Payment at the door leading to a final passage (4)

4 Go on the street for a meeting (5)

6 Marsh, the fiction writer, for one (5)

7 As might be turned to open or close a container (5-3)

8 Name true facility able to solve arithmetical problems (8)

11 Moves the good man to acquire skills (6)

14 Run to hide! (4)

16 Causes the point to be lost (6)

17 Boy in America (4)

18 Wild pursuers of royal thrones? (8)

19 Follower puts dirty pile under the record (8)

22 Twins make a sign (6)

23 I am out of aspirin that's ordered for an injury (6)

25 A follower to secure the building (5)

26 A hero stranded in an international airport (5)

28 Spoil one with Indian bread (4)

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