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Miscellaneous - Crossword

The Hindu Crossword 8905

Across

1 Take for granted that letters, overdue, include the first from university (9)

5 Catchment area finds bachelors at home (5)

8 Resolve to find detectives hiding in river (6)

9 Croon about equal right in fighting (8)

11 A keen-eyed creature's reported connections (4)

12 I order a cut to be executed (7,3)

14 Specimen, not small but generous in proportions (5)

15 Oriental cult straying in Maryland was cheated (7)

16 Snare for a small flier, could be Venus's (7)

17 Nobody admits origin of crime in the present time (5)

19 Can ICC yell about a letter from the Pope? (10)

20 Fabric of wool that could be examined by touch (4)

22 Unruffled workers find fluids for radiators (8)

23 New development in the centre (6)

24 Famous German poet of a type housed in the environs of Ramsgate (5)

25 Not given to dreaming, such a one is said to truly persist (9)

Down

1 Walk barefoot in water with two daughters in dim surroundings (6)

2 Place of learning, but certainly not lower in importance than others (9,6)

3 Language spoken in a dour duologue (4)

4 Inexpert male turns out to be tentative (12)

5 Old Aussie cricketer on policy that is ambiguous (10)

6 Creature that may leave a wake in the sands? (4,2,3,6)

7 A bit of raga playing in distress is neutralised (7)

10 Computer accessory badly trips learner (5,7)

13 Go up in value per capita somehow around end of sale (10)

16 Does he charge outrageously for sheep shearing? (7)

18 Unchanging interference in radio reception (6)

21 In Goa it may go to one's head (4)

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