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The Hindu Crossword 8769

Across

1 Invited for a drink, and to practice law (6,2,3,3)

8 Cry of disgust about a doctor getting grass (6)

9 One who eats anything — ducks, vermin: terrible! (8)

11 Mona, a soul turning inconsistent (9)

12 Carved channel represented in hieroglyphics (5)

13 Ornament for a listener getting call (7)

15 How to sell below cost price when uncertain what to do (2,1,4)

17 It is used in perfumery by a boy, a figure halved (7)

19 Puss in good form enlists (5,2)

21 Pole could man the office (5)

23 Take care of appearance later in time (4,5)

25 Star-shaped heavenly body going round the sun (8)

26 Liveliness of the elf, moving last to first (6)

27 Mature instruction — for the not so young (5,9)

Down

1 Vegetable found in a sack in taxi, last in line (7)

2 Member getting nothing in a place for the lost (5)

3 Summoning up for an English career (9)

4 A fuss in Delhi perhaps has Atma in trouble (7)

5 Looking carefully at some money in generous measure (5)

6 Nondescript and mousy? No, an aberration (9)

7 Networks seem disturbed around centre of gusher (6)

10 Pine, new in wood (4)

14 Socialist travelled on floating planks and prepared a plan again (9)

16 Transform with ease, an age in an arm of the Mediterranean (6,3)

17 The French mark an eastern sailor (6)

18 The discomfort of the garland girl is beginning to evaporate (7)

19 Singular, new stroke (4)

20 Fanatic moralist is in an Orissa location to get brown (7)

22 Savage old Indian law: beginning of licensing (5)

24 Swampy region at the base of Himalayas, part of a remote rainless area (5)

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