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The Hindu Crossword 9041

Across

 1 Dining grandly (8)

 6 Meadow, for instance, in Virginia (4)

 9 What many would like to do with a direct marketing campaign (3,3)

10 Rare confusion about deception before now (7)

13 Incident that is sure to hit the headlines (9)

14 Child ailing with cold (5)

15 Somewhat neurotic about new currency (4)

16 When it’s the whole nine yards? (4,6)

19 Do a patriotic display in tricolour? (3,3,4)

21 Looked about California’s top promontory (4)

24 Harvests exotic pears (5)

25 One who says ‘no’ to drinks — even brewed tea in bars! (9)

26 Want the French pointers (7)

27 Deft publicity provokes riot (6)

28 Whirl causes bear to lose head (4)

29 State of the U.S.A. — a right state (8)

Down

 2 Give abilities to Oriental politician and debtor (7)

 3 “ — — and say hi!” — what a blog writer would want visitors to do (4,2)

 4 At the entrance the devotee is completely unclothed (2,3,4)

 5 Foreign national with good smell (5)

 7 Going out (7)

 8 They are said to bring May flowers (5,7)

11 Frame the alien in mafia activity (6)

12 Noisy obstruction (12)

17 Shylock was one (4,5)

18 Hundred greeting the French showing up fraud (6)

20 December 31 (4-3)

22 Open with a Shavian play (7)

23 Tram shudders and takes on the dowager (6)

25 Cruising on a ship in confusion (2,3)

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