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The Hindu Crossword 8732

Across

1 In position, it's of exemplary significance (8)

5 View snake, etc., crawling (6)

9 It is held up when things get rather hot (7)

10 The appearance of someone who just steps out of the swimming pool (3,4)

11 Presentation that a journalist gives the steel baron (9)

12 Second icon broker by heir (5)

13 It is expensive — nothing to New York Times (4)

14 Native American (3,6)

17 Read even as you pass a barrier (2,7)

19 Muse over firm holding 51 (4)

23 Presentation in good Latin? (5)

24 Cross enough to bury most of the group (9)

25 Bierce, the writer, for one (7)

26 Write notes? (7)

27 Substitute sheds tears on receiving the last letter (6)

28 A thread in Gilbert and Sullivan on bare coverings (1-7)

Down

1 Phoney admission of deprivation enveloping a good man (8)

2 Insignificant credit garnered by journalist on the boundaries of Bombay (7)

3 Is able somehow to lower oneself from the mountainside (6)

4 What you do to bring in the law when there's some trouble (4,3,6)

6 Ignore fixed, wrong ideas (3,5)

7 Things with a foreign flavour (7)

8 Producing a film, thanks to raja (6)

10 They offer support to the old and infirm (7,6)

15 Ugly shape not "in"? Remove gradually! (5,3)

16 Defensive structure for hair (8)

18 Large volume of transport? (7)

20 Get into a sleeping position (3,4)

21 Sailor, do nothing in anger (6)

22 First-class textbook (6)

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