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The Hindu Crossword 9054

Across

 1 Such close-fitting clothes make small relatives drunk (4-5)

 5 Meat for the essayist (5)

 8 Enumeration of desires of an SI whilst on the move (4,4)

 9 The staggers make me resolute (6)

11 You have a meal reportedly and consume fully (3,2)

12 One boy angry with a military decoration (4,5)

13 Bugle call for a design on the body (6)

14 Re-do oriental act, modify and embellish (8)

16 Enduring quality of a card game (8)

18 Such a child may not have tasted much of the rod (6)

22 Blunt? True, but, oddly, unruly (9)

23 Immature egg cell endangers universal love (5)

24 Served in burning brandy, a drop of brandy in a blaze (6)

25 About to occur to me in mint condition (8)

26 Person caught between two sides, he does not like company (5)

27 Enabled or otherwise, it is a streamer (9)

Down

 1 Joiner’s by-product (7)

 2 Closely examine the little creature, soft at heart (7)

 3 Humble Peter, one new to work out what identifies the caller (or one called) (9,6)

 4 Idle talk is so backward in a doctor (6)

 5 Failure to keep one’s commitment to tie the knot (6,2,7)

 6 City that made a bard coo strangely (7)

 7 Greeting a good man sporting a title (7)

10 The two-wheeler moved aimlessly (5)

15 One that propels head of ship and company (5)

16 A tulip, if crushed, is distressing (7)

17 Ground for a queen in procession (7)

19 Where conception occurs upsetting routine (2,5)

20 Scene of operations where, in part, great heat reigns (7)

21 Flower part for a good man? So be it (6)

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