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THE HINDU CROSSWORD 8907

Across

1 Popular singer in a tight corner harbouring love (7)

5 Dispenser in a jet perhaps lacking plane, so large (7)

9 Eager, meagre ruler has an illusion mistaken for reality (7,8)

10 They do not like work, surely (6)

11 Losing head, author of fables accepts demand for a bivalve (8)

13 Leggy NCO is treated with a polysaccharide (8)

15 Blueprint for notes with hint (6)

18 Famous actor's voyage (6)

19 Three articles by master, one who is abhorred (8)

22 Verbal exchange about garment worn around university (8)

24 Add a supplement with a very soft finish (6)

27 A stunt lady cries, dismayed by book (1,5,2,7)

28 Set aside, for a listener, old money in Europe (7)

29 It gives one a current measure (7)

Down

1 Ruminant fish in a part of an aircraft (7)

2 A thrush resting in a lighthouse languidly (5)

3 Villainous foe ruins a change (9)

4 Part played by bread, say (4)

5 Horrified Accountant General holds end of audit (6)

6 Famous old parliamentarian, a veteran Gandhian in part (5)

7 Painting for a quiet existence (5,4)

8 Kind of bowling that could make a member whirl (3,4)

12,17 Colourful material for revolutionary writing? (3,3)

14 A child that an unknown surgeon treated, taking time (9)

16 Plots came unstuck in vapour emanating in a seance (9)

17 See 12

18 A pretense provides a daily with a couple of notes (7)

20 One who listens to an examiner (7)

21 Remove the connection from a Cancun linkage (6)

23 Clay artist in a dance pose (5)

25 Enthusiastic approval for new lace, with a bit of trimming (5)

26 The place to be in when I start to agitate (4)

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