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Miscellaneous - Crossword

The Hindu Crossword 8932

Across

1 Means of payment when bad credit is involved (5,4)

5 Such music from a Dickensian boy — two notes (5)

8 Spoil drink, one more than what is needed (6)

9 Force U.S. somehow with love? Certainly (2,6)

11 Clamorous and offensive to look at (4)

12 A daughter embarks on hazardous operations (10)

14 Athenian marketplace playing a part in a fear of open spaces (5)

15 Thomas Gray, say (7)

16 Low wall, with a section confining a monkey (7)

17 Silly person on a wild trip around the west (5)

19 Material extensively used in Delhi recently to stop unauthorised commerce? (7,3)

20 Distinguished singer, girl, returns, escorted by American prosecutor (4)

22 Midday, with the sun at its peak (4,4)

23 Straw hat, for a time carried by a South African (6)

24 A true subject, for example, clothed in falsehood (5)

25 Protection for crops, a frightening sight (9)

Down

1 Depression showing on the face but often considered an attraction (6)

2 In the Atlantic it could spell danger, albeit rum, unusual (7,8)

3 Understand that it is a small branch of a tree (4)

4 Car part that gets re-inflated if faulty (12)

5 A professional's dissertation on replacement of body part (10)

6 John Millais was one, so was James Whistler (8,7)

7 The kind of eyes that an intense group may have? (4-3)

10 Profitable but aged, a van's out for repair (12)

13 Disposition to yield to others who complain wrongly in front of church (10)

16 Grandpa's challenge is partly about Easter (7)

18 A part of bone which was a medieval missile (6)

21 Drug that is acceptable in the outskirts of Coimbatore (4)

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