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The Hindu Crossword 8721

Across

1 Could a closing be a kind of offence? (10)

7 Big hit of a party (4)

9 Two cats in a drum (3-3)

10 A citizen that no one backs in African province (8)

11 Brood over and arbitrate, accommodating head of trust (8)

12 Bacon's source, a writer in a sty (6)

13 Military unit to destroy a bridge (7)

16 Deny profit, for example (7)

17 Sack the insect, arsonist (7)

19 Convenience at any time by arrangement (7)

22 Astounded by a ghost with change of heart (6)

23 Lab chemicals of a strange eastern sort (8)

26 Bovine feature sought after by marksmen (5, 3)

27 Unit for American gas (6)

28 Advantage of heavy metal (4)

29 Relative move by senior nurse (10)

Down

2 Measure, one for gas (5)

3 The stuff of a vacuum? (7)

4 Dance, boy, with bachelor (5)

5 A cap for the motor engine (6)

6 Substance emanating at a séance place: most unusual (9)

7 Second-grade, inferior, firearm, a weapon used for shooting poisoned darts (7)

8 A trapper's model of what a service station should have (5,4)

14 It gives the measure of a fall (4,5)

15 The oldest bus repaired? Certainly (9)

18 Provided with the means, girl extorted money (7)

20 Partner of pins in causing a tingling (7)

21 The place to apply a lubricant, say (6)

24 Watchful guardian caught in a peculiar gustatory exercise (5)

25 A bit of a tiny aperture that serves as a fulcrum for the oar (5)

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