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The Hindu Crossword 9029

Across

1 Part magic spell, but businesslike (9)

5 Exclude one from French legal profession (5)

8 Hospital official stumbles on tram (6)

9 Most furious, curious ire in a state of anxiety (8)

11 Vibes coming from abstainers around an old place (4)

12 Old transport that could be priceless (7,3)

14 He adjusts a piano, say, to make it sound true and new somehow (5)

15 A songbird chewed small, dainty pieces of food (7)

16 The way to send one being sacked peremptorily (7)

17 The whip for a lisper’s song (5)

19 Pitch money about for a smoker on the roof (10)

20 Last bit of music for a physician in retrospect (4)

22 It could shed illumination on what is being shot (3,5)

23 Daughter in authority gets a toilet accessory (6)

24 Possible answer to a question of location (5)

25 Study a French percussion instrument that is a brain-teaser (9)

Down

1 Father’s escorting a member to grassy plains (6)

2 Can a critic trace clan dispersed in a belt south of the equator? (9,6)

3 Doctor on overtime? That is open to debate (4)

4 State of health, something unwritten in Britain (12)

5 Disparagement of French supplication in a church ceremony (10)

6 Chloride of lime for treating chop, raw, bleeding (9,6)

7 Says adieu to work but again becomes weary (7)

10 Difficult to decipher — but not to the Egyptians of old (12)

13 Line of people, one behind the other — brave people (6,4)

16 Corrupt constable unable to cover end of malfeasance (7)

18 Aromatic liquid that one may rub if injured (3,3)

21 It may be the subject of a statement (4)

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