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The Hindu Crossword 9013

Across

 1 Checks that the ironing has been done again (9)

 5 Forced out of straightness (4)

 8 Shorter signal of the two used in Morse (3)

 9 Where games are held every four years (7)

10 Impair fatally (3)

11 Withdrawn and uninvolved (5)

12 Not a professional (7)

13 Having top news value (7)

15 Be bound by gratitude for small service (6)

17 A plank in a ship (6)

18 Mark track or path (5,2)

21 A strong drink

22 Swollen state of tissue (5)

24 Fore part of hoof (3)

25 Engineers hollow shape for a tyre (7)

26 He lives away from his country (1,1,1)

27 Portable weapons (4)

28 Working out at full length (9)

Down

 1 Beaming with joy or hope (7)

 2 Inner court open to the skies (5)

 3 Light pieces of canvas to catch wind on square-rigged ships (8)

 4 Partition between the chambers of a shell (6)

 5 Narrowly lost and received a school caning (6,2,1,4)

 6 Marine flatworm (9)

 7 Netted crook used in lacrosse (6)

 9 Pursuivant (7,2,4)

14 He takes excessive advantage of others’ needs (9)

16 Multitude of celestial bodies looking like powdered earth (8)

17 Funds for companies (6)

19 Relating to proximity (7)

20 Lack of usual social standards in group (6)

23 Mental weariness from lack of interest (5)

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