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The Hindu Crossword 9034

Across

 1  Hard to beat in cretinism? (7,8)

 8 Being cold to your girl hurts (7)

 9 The drink in the cup Ron got was spiked (5)

10 Blunted Shakespearean rapier still remains a fighting organisation (1,1,1)

11 Old Opposition still has its programme (6)

12 “All we want is a limousine and a … for the peepshow.” Louis Macneice (6)

13 The robots as they once were (1,1,1)

14 The road may be pleasant, but the journey is vain (2,3,6,4)

19 Stop as if for a dance (3)

20 One fails if one is an overachiever in this objective (6)

21 Cause to become entangled in something (6)

22 This organisation recently lost nothing and remained the same (1,1,1)

23 Ruled (5)

24 Long in the tooth? (7)

25 Menace from above (5,2,8)

Down

 1 Hasten to inter stale stories? Hardly! (10,5)

 2 Support a turncoat? Hardly playing the game! (8)

 3 Step on the gas! (6)

 4 Got it? (7,8)

 5 Dropping a letter as in a minor slip may lead one straight to jail (8)

 6 Russian Trinity (6)

 7 Users of this book shout, Great! (6,9)

15 War journalism, US style? (8)

16 Lily of the dead (8)

17 Aye, Aye (6)

18 A newcomer in office is made to feel sheepish (6)

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