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The Hindu Crossword No. 8724

Across

1 Right way to keep up with the times (9)

5 A hankering to come up to scratch, may be (4)

8 Spare the stick and spoil the child? (3)

9 Sucks up and assimilates (7)

10 Cause to act or serve for a purpose (3)

11 Flower for a hundred old coins (5)

12 Lived in monastic style (9)

13 Graduated glass tube for measuring small quantities of liquid (7)

15 Calling for immediate action (6)

17 Yellow skin-flint in wretched state of mind (6)

18 Put into circulation again (7)

21 Fine legend too great for words (9)

22 Moral fabulist who adopted a pose (5)

24 Get absorbed in the system (3)

25 I have you with a seaman who is offensive (7)

26 Animal found passed over (3)

27 Strength of character (4)

28 Malicious informers (9)

Down

1 Cylindrical part to which grains are attached (4-3)

2 Of a former age (5)

3 Instilled a person with feeling (8)

4 Grossly coarse material (6)

5 Unruly bastion ruined (13)

6 Too may to be reckoned (9)

7 Again correct for publication (6)

9 What pertains to the sphere of what is existent (1,6,2,4)

14 He holds others in deferential esteem (9)

16 Belonging to the tube conveying blood from the heart (8)

17 Mutilated me and the maid somehow (6)

19 Displays former assumed attitudes (7)

20 Take away by force (6)

23 Receptacle for one object (5)

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