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The Hindu Crossword 8993

Across

 1 Flying elephant? (5,3)

 5 Begin haltingly to bend at last part of car engine’s connecting rod (3,3)

 9 Small special presentation of protective cover for book, maybe (4,4)

10 Shakespearean character who argues for a pound (6)

12 Garden in Oriental study (4)

13 Minor kind of industry in India (5-5)

15 It is worthwhile to solve this clue (6)

17 More certain user actively stands by right (5)

20 Twentyfour of them are all in a day (5)

21 Stick the sailor wielded to beat (6)

24 Arachnophobic character from the nursery (4,6)

27 It has a choice of dishes set out on it (4)

29 King of fitted wardrobes (6)

30 Starts a striptease? (5,3)

31 The world of the CBI and IB? (6)

32 Kind of concrete for instant use (5-3)

Down

 1 Jaipur’s leader on steed cavorted and made merry (6)

 2 Clad in armour, Bond’s boss suffered (6)

 3 Clown, without solicitor, in pain (4)

 4 Record on some unfinished town in the U.K. (5)

 6 Carries out an evening job (5)

 7 The USP of diapers, maybe (5-3)

 8 Words fallen on these get no hearing (4,4)

11 This clue is not sufficiently bright (3-3)

14 Questions the fool about the king (4)

16 “For old, unhappy, — things” (Wordsworth) (3-3)

17 Cleaner, long-running TV show (4)

18 Prem thus tackled those who smite (8)

19 Stores writings on a method to contain rising workers (4,4)

22 Better create again (6)

23 Beat in trickery as Aesop’s stork? (6)

25 Tree in rising Indian village comes to nothing (5)

26 Avoid wily deva in the East (5)

28 Stag is up in a rush (4)

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