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The Hindu Crossword 8766

Across

1 Strive to make music (6)

4 Only the male worker accepts direction still (8)

10 Music for student celebration week (7)

11 Losing one second is undesirable and causes irritation (7)

12 Name on chest of informer (4)

13 Figure there are always strings attached (10)

16 Lied once about enforced absence from his home (6)

17 Running away to disappear (7)

20 Sam to plan effective attacks with inflammable bombs (7)

21 Bring a charge for Bill to use (6)

24 More than fair description of the attractive and virtuous (6,4)

25 Clear space (4)

27 Cover Stanley put on a revolving cylinder (7)

29 An extortioner who once had a role on boards (7)

30 Blinded to reality with imaginary dust (8)

31 Didn't work for nothing (6)

Down

1 A fast runner (8)

2 Way to bring back food (not strictly for the birds) (11)

3 Knight I sent back for the flag (4)

5 Bleating about what may be clearly grasped (8)

6 No hostility on the golf course for environmentalists (10)

7 Everybody left a liberal (3)

8 Tried a critical examination (6)

9 American state reviews taxes (5)

14 Full marks for being more than one over the eight (3,3,2,3)

15 Created havoc as the Hindu deity said (10)

18 Pictures of fully developed six footers (8)

19 Offered to care for wild deer (8)

22 Empty rooms? (6)

23 Weathermen join company of astrologers who forecast by it (5)

26 There's a legend about silver in South Africa (4)

28 A point father makes about a seed (3)

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