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The Hindu Crossword 8960

Across

1 Creature with a method for capture of bouncing ball (7)

5 Time to cause irritation with a chocolate sweet (7)

9 Hurrying to meet deadline emaciates rating awfully (4,7,4)

10 Party backs oral song — something unusual (6)

11 In a stupor? Come to, as directed (8)

13 28 days in which to bury fear perhaps (8)

15 Part of the body that could get cut in a kind of aggressive competition (6)

18 White wine in ship causes outrage (6)

19 A medicine for GIs, a mean concoction (8)

22 Covering the kernel, it gives eccentrics a very disagreeable condition (8)

24 Hardy girl in South America who returned poperty (6)

27 Be prone to accept something without protest (4,2,5,4)

28 Calling for tinnitus (7)

29 Feline ability to see a gemstone (4,3)

Down

1 Turn aside from conflict, make a greeting gesture (4,3)

2 Clear reversal seen in periodic ultrasound study (5)

3 Quick money made by playing a sackbut forte (1,4,4)

4 Shopper’s prerequisite in Beijing (4)

5 Worthless work put up in colour (6)

6 Powerful tradition provides cover for radical (5)

7 Childish fool, virus infected (9)

8 The peak of man’s achievement (7)

12 and 17 Prohibition policy was an uninteresting act (3,3)

14 Gift of something to read later (4,5)

16 But does it need eyes at the back of the head to realise what should have been done? (9)

17 See12

18 Politician, one to stare on rudely (7)

20 Basis of alibi for a sailor — awareness, reportedly (7)

21 Ex-convict in new gaol consumed 100 ml (3,3)

23 A Thai island transported to a place in the West Indies! (5)

25 Call up the first girl travelling around Oklahoma (5)

26 Record of a girl’s introduction to civilisation (4)

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