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The Hindu Crossword 8832

Across

1 What prompts one to go without a rest (9)

5 Advantage conceded in betting (4)

8 Jacket for nuclear fuel rod (3)

9 Biased (7)

10 Vast quantity or expanse (3)

11 Arouse to sense of danger (5)

12 Well-timed and seasonable (9)

13 Wildly impulsive people (7)

15 Counterbalanced (6)

17 Larva by the way becomes dirty (6)

18 Air is breathed in (7)

21 Offensively arrogant behaviour (9)

22 Series of events in the mind of a dormant person (5)

24 Twentyfirst Greek letter (3)

25 Suave and insinuating like the softly lustrous fibre from cocoons (7)

26 A joke either way (3)

27 Makes out a living with difficulty (4)

28 Certain to be in step if highly valued (9)

Down

1 Win back from waste (7)

2 Miraculously supplied food substance (5)

3 Members of the third order of ministry (7)

4 Type again (6)

5 Morning, afternoon, evening — that's the state of things (5,2,3,3)

6 Payment of money (9)

7 Passionate expression of grief (6)

9 Sleep-walkers (13)

14 Used to play percussion instrument (9)

16 Ferrous carbonate mineral from a red site (8)

17 Grasping power of influenza (6)

19 Injured father figure lassoing wild game (7)

20 Ornament worn on leg (6)

23 Full of keen desire (5)

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