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The Hindu Crossword 8857

Across

1 A cad's dream — way out trophies for screen players (7,6)

9 One-way transport at a time of trouble in France (7)

10 Partly, it is drawn inexorably backward into the mind (7)

11 Lubricant for treating social rot (6,3)

12 One transaction that is perfect (5)

13 Sent out, like Bonaparte (6)

14 Bitterness of an agent about strange rite (8)

17 Wisconsin is terrific, but ominous in part (8)

19 Large fish found right and left in the main of old (6)

23 Least variable unit of magnetic flux density (5)

25 Gory entertainment, usually curtains for a bovine (9)

26 Note Paula's broken shoulder blade (7)

27 Give a fresh tag to a lively dance around research facility (7)

28 Tourists adore hot milk, say, boiled (13)

Down

1 Object — a right touch provoking laughter, say (7)

2 Owning up to what is sought after by aspiring students (9)

3 Body part of a nobleman on order (7)

4 Cowardly shout cut short, subdued (6)

5 Injury caused by a jerk was hard, enveloping a joint (large) (8)

6 Would our spies conceal untanned leather? (7)

7 Fabric of an NCO, no worker (5)

8 Show a girl's theatrical work (7)

15 Eligible student, somehow hard to read (9)

16 Computer accessory for important directors (8)

17 Meet the conditions, say, grasping twisted fist (7)

18 In the south-east, a bird, a marine bird (7)

20 Two small boys with a perennial plant (7)

21 Plants that sting test Len sorely (7)

22 Ministers, but not those in government (6)

24 Punctuation mark making a sweeping cut (5)

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