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The Hindu Crossword 8861

Across

1 Cancel a measure fully in order (7)

5 Making palings of it would surely be premature (7)

9 Church leader has a number to discipline (7)

10 Put nail on the wedding (7)

11 Be elated to see the snake-like fish here (3)

12 Minor local official (5)

13 All mother can do to get the beast (5)

14 Long seat for more than one (6)

15 You tend to be shamelessly presumptuous (8)

18 Rounded up but not rounded off (8)

20 Force exerted for special activity (6)

24 She comes of age with poles (5)

26 Excuse of being somewhere else when crime was committed (5)

27 Surpass to be superior (3)

28 Vibrating effect in singing (7)

29 The nuclear deterrent that used to be good for toast? (7)

30 What a dhobi is paid to do (7)

31 What sailors follow, follows a sailor (3,4)

Down

1 Core of the atom (7)

2 Single sheet for distribution (7)

3 Come between to cover free development (9)

4 Pulled the American newsman (6)

5 Luminary rays that brighten the day (8)

6 One who is taught by another (5)

7 Copy action to follow example (7)

8 Chivalrous ladies' man (7)

16 Constant international body is declining (9)

17 How to beat an urge to the left (8)

18 Any movable property (7)

19 Short poem with opening words used as refrain (7)

21 Surpassed to go faster (7)

22 One who gives information about horse races (7)

23 Talented expert (6)

25 Be angry with and find fault (5)

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