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The Hindu Crossword 8931

Across

1 State of ruthless competition, not necessarily only for beasts (3,2,3,6)

8 Diminutive title abroad wraps liberal (6)

9 A daredevil on screen perhaps (5,3)

11 Fairies manage to provide submarine aid (9)

12 Location of the Crimea Conference of 1945 (5)

13 Videos, can be seen by all, but, however, dishonest (7)

15 Lively fellow, a bridge player and hockey player (7)

17 Cheese for an actor, it is doctored (7)

19 Where one may wait, to be picked up for money (3,4)

21 Guys' partners in an outstanding musical (5)

23 Fairly good role — table building (9)

25 Stirred up by a vigil, end unexpected (8)

26 What gives South Indian coffee its uniqueness? (6)

27 Swaraj, for which fervent men slog painfully (4-10)

Down

1 Floating leaf, oddly pallid, a bit yellow inside (4,3)

2 Essential element, note, that could be enveloped in conflict (5)

3 Prove inadequate with right half lost, paralysed (4,5)

4 Jack replaces first of worthless one's notebooks (7)

5 Girl in American city, a nursemaid (5)

6 Chaplin's spot? (9)

7 Peacekeeper's expo is partial (6)

10 Sleep in ship after party (4)

14 Blow hot and cold but give up about a couple of pounds (9)

16 An addition that could make TN noisier perhaps (9)

17 Artist with a face like a kind of tyre (6)

18 Decorate endlessly anew in 1930s style (3,4)

19 Inrepid type perhaps (4)

20 A report I rewrote for a pantomine character (7)

22 Support for a quiet, mischievous child (5)

24 Steep climb, utterly exhausting, to find a flat-topped hill (5)

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