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The Hindu Crossword 8715

Across

1 Our U movies hurt a part of the eye (8,6)

8 A container to dispose of, you say? Stop it from happening (6)

9 Be non-committal about DD's alert somehow (8)

11 Bring to the usual state a girl with horrid lies (9)

12 Sharpener used in bistro perhaps (5)

13 Wide open, like the mouth of a bored one? (7)

15 A plant in the main (7)

17 Turn, do a turn in a circular construction (7)

19 Basis for writing in ancient Egypt (7)

21 Code that the Royal Engineers abandoned in anguish (5)

23 Wet blanket's outlook (9)

25 Entertainer whose whirls go wrong (8)

26 Relating to government revenue — large amounts provided in return (6)

27 Learned people, all sitting in outskirts of Ennore uncomfortably (14)

Down

1 What one may fill when taking a job and create when leaving it (7)

2 The general drift of thought — of Caruso? (5)

3 Scale drawing of building shows grandeur (9)

4 The lass scampers without top cover (7)

5 Laments of some Samoan sailors (5)

6 Slip etc., can't they be talked about? (9)

7 Part of mobile phone providing opener which father and daughter follow (6)

10 Fish from Islington (4)

14 Wet the feathers and weaken (5,4)

16 It can travel on land and water in Namibia freely, carrying the potential of Hydrogen (9)

17 Negligent priest cut short by girl (6)

18 A quiet place in Mumbai for clothes (7)

19 Pain in the neck? Step off! (4)

20 Where, in Africa, I am also confused (7)

22 Keen-eyed flier (5)

24 Anvil-shaped bone in the ear (5)

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