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The Hindu Crossword No. 2706

Across

1 Like some terraced houses, one after the other (4-2-4)
6 What the burglar took was awfully good (4)
10 Famous cricketer, first to get run (5)
11 Odd term to describe identifying mark of artist (9)
12 To accept or refuse the offer could be the thief's dilemma (4,2,2,5,2)
13 Brilliant essayist visiting hospital department (7)
15 Really try in a series of IOM races (2,5)
17 Play trick on purpose (7)
19 Frankness, and in court! Not quite (7)
20 What bark beetles help to cause, causes the middle to rot (5,3,7)
22 Raw, inexperienced youth in new house on outskirts of Ripon (9)
23 Friend in Potsdam, Igor (5)
24 Top expert banking millions (4)
25 Holy man in street, Arnold perhaps (2,8)

Down

1 A piece pocketed by beautiful woman in game (9)
2 Work out with expert (5)
3 The enemy infiltrating the organisation in novel (3,4,7)
4 Fight about pot causes exhaustion (7)
5 Girl with accountant going round a plant (7)
7 Now I began swimming in Wisconsin lake (9)
8 Unfairly influenced foolish person to accept tons (3,2)
9 Ordered as nightcap, beer might give one an opportunity to relax (9,5)
14 Halfway through, I'd stammer uncontrollably (9)
16 Came to be expelled (6,3)
18 Fish - extremely exquisite head of panchax crushed by yobbo (7)
19 Rhythm of exotic dance taped by church (7)
20 Follow scholar, teaching (5)
21 Excuse used by Mexicali billionaire (5)

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