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The hindu crossword 8956

Across

1 Accumulate a bill while on Mediterranean tourist island (7)

5 Goes like Elijah in his chariot of fire (7)

9 They build farms on cattle land (7)

10 Girl is clear in advance payment (7)

11 Market for silver gilt article (5)

12 Logical outcome of taking off (9)

13 The point of this device may not be apparent (6,3)

15 Dull and tedious, daughter goes to the back (5)

16 Arrange to hire car belonging to them (5)

18 Duck below the bedcover (9)

21 The housekeeper’s pantry is never full, apparently (9)

24 Ted returns with Bill to undergo training in the army (5)

25 Work in the theatre (7)

26 Aimless person can be fired by right (7)

27 One can sit at building in a Baltic republic (7)

28 The collier needs a pound to get a drink (7)

Down

1 Year books of plants (7)

2 Finished with Jersey, say? Push the boat out! (4,3)

3 Always the first woman to beam (4,5)

4 Moved gently to be free from pain (5)

5 Left a group of music men done in (9)

6 Surly individual, disinclined to believe in goodness (5)

7 Chemical for a trip in the dark, say? (7)

8 Steer around fleet in a more hard manner (7)

14 Spectacles of woman only, presumably, in untidy heap (9)

15 Track supervision (9)

16 The material sets our fashion (7)

17 Noteworthy pit surrounded by another ten (7)

19 Lord set to become advanced in years (7)

20 An idiot being the obvious choice (7)

22 The French ran around to gain knowledge (5)

23 A palindrome address to a woman (5)

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