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Miscellaneous - Crossword

The Hindu Crossword 8904

Across

1 Fruit found rotting in a Roman garden (8,6)

8 Rogue, half German, is one who begs (6)

9 Respected English journalist covers return encounters (8)

11 The German lookalike's gun (9)

12 Bones found in a dismantled sitar (5)

13 The wine that alarms a sufferer (7)

15 African capital, scene of famous rescue operation in 1976 (7)

17 Accountants settled down with an ice cream (7)

19 Kind of bean split in a chariot (7)

21 Woman's shawl worn by some Pacific hunters (5)

23 He puts money in the bank (9)

25 What a successful book may run into, to the delight of the author (8)

26 Small duration of time, very small (6)

27 An engine, ill-built, defective, could be Greek (14)

Down

1 Scottish son of the first man was the inventor of a road surface (7)

2 The lowest point in a defective drain (5)

3 Baseball, apple pie, Superman etc. captured in a camera, rolling (9)

4 Watch the old boy fill the bill (7)

5 Turn away from a salutation? Right (5)

6 Stick with the Sudanese, say, in charge of exudate used in making asafoetida etc. (3,6)

7 Counsel for a daughter on immoral action (6)

10 A Greek article in a historic Indian town (4)

14 Surgical procedure, a No.1 secret, is spelt out (9)

16 The object includes reckless physical assault (9)

17 Chest of the hacker, say (6)

18 Slow bit of music, neat and new (7)

19 That chap accepts work in anticipation (4)

20 Worldly Frenchman pursues half-sister (7)

22 News agency working on alliance (5)

24 Ekalavya's guru dakshina (5)

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