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The Hindu Crossword 9043

Across

 1 Craft with hesitation an old coin (7)

 5 Leers and sneers are their looks (6)

 9 Old ascetic footloose in German city (5)

10 Tell the whole story as you emerge out of the bathroom? (4,5)

11 Not like to revise the author? (7)

12 Look at British newspaper endlessly (7)

13 Caught scent of Edward getting operating system (5)

14 It’s laid for dignitaries to walk on (3,6)

16 Pupils might look forward to hear the bell at its end (6,3)

19 Social class we’re told to discard (5)

21 Things done with priest leaving pieces (7)

23 Vani ran wild in blissful state (7)

24 Revolutionary returns with band to perform heroic daring (7-2)

25 Sweep sleeping chamber when Ed leaves it (5)

26 Corrects some that are so deficient in objectives (6)

27 “— — and no further!” (4,3)

Down

 1 Stringers cadge recycled features of Christmas, New Year, etc. (9,5)

 2 Slights the fashionable sultans without an arrangement (7)

 3 Pope’s epic of dunces (7)

 4 Modern Communist placed in the middle again (9)

 5 Small part came to nothing (5)

 6 A coin is tossed to choose a city (7)

 7 Become more pleasant on getting 1dn, perhaps (5,2)

 8 Where the anvil often comes by — auction (5,3,6)

15 Well, such a process will give us less and less water (6,3)

17 Which should be wide to protect the wearer from sun (3,4)

18 Scholar of an English town and university (7)

19 Rudolph’s Canadian cousin? (7)

20 Make tight but the animal’s gone! (4,3)

22 Marks the name of oneself (5)

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