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The Hindu Crossword 8729

Across

1 Shocks with surprise as a good man beheads dogs (8)

5 Experts on southern musical instruments (6)

9 Former wife making a reference is thrilling (8)

10 Presents with a bias bracelets with top worn off (6)

12 Food and drink for the legislative body? (4)

13 Writes quickly: "Senate's nod dissipates" (5,1,4)

15 It may go into a box containing 5 (6)

17 The woman is with The Economic Times, the paper (5)

20 Rare display around one frame for drying clothes (5)

21 First of sacred rites modified for relative (6)

24 The French chaps' list is sad (10)

27 I am recalling Mother to the Muslim priest (4)

29 Surrenders produces (6)

30 Somehow save business in petroleum jelly (8)

31 Wave list with hesitation (6)

32 Beat like mad for electrical insulator, maybe (8)

Down

1 It takes time and organisation for a meeting to go through this (6)

2 This ensures admission to an event (6)

3 How Ruskin's novel title begins? (4)

4 Closely crowded together in studies, we hear (5)

6 The man has the girl coming up in colour (5)

7 Turn to reinvest in a similar fund (4,4)

8 They are thought to have committed crimes (8)

11 They sum up dangers in the garden (6)

14 It is the key in an Alistair Maclean novel (4)

16 Sad, maids fall for the unknown (6)

17 One who perceives visually (4)

18 One who accosts you on the street — a hen, perhaps (8)

19 Credit mantra to a spring in Connecticut (8)

22 Cleverly trims one group of Hindu writings (6)

23 Mother comes up with French father and physicist (6)

25 Approach dug-out in the North-East (5)

26 Lash out at a capital (5)

28 Nothing more than a boundary marker (4)

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