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The Hindu Crossword 9056

Across

 1 A game insect (7)

 5 Rarely changed models (6)

11 Annoy team leader with facility (5)

12 Ma’s outcry is silly but is according to convention (9)

13 Poetry on the house? (4,5)

14 Popular Xmas visitor, a worker in South America (5)

15 Test taken formerly in the morning (4)

17 A limit I violated for the troops (7)

21 Staying power displayed by Rustam in a race (7)

22 Hindu holy book written by journalist in Virginia (4)

26 Dressing with a bit of cambric in a way (5)

27 Without stopping, trendy worker accepts duty (9)

29 Preparation for the launch (9)

30 Mistake, one among some in a bard’s work (5)

31 Lure a medical specialist with diamonds (6)

32 A grand master, nasty but one trained in exercises needing agility (7)

Down

 2 Take away violently from a mediocre, average place (5)

 3 Divide the first of clans and quit (6)

 4 Request for a repeat performance (6)

 6 Self-seeking cities go bust (8)

 7 Twisted diaper pin found in a kind of trousers (9)

 8 Call for help on workers’ holiday (6)

 9 In-house journalist carries stick with hesitation (7)

10 Abstemious one breaks case: spasm follows (7)

16 Said to be opposed to faith and against monopoly (9)

18 Forceful and having an impact, he dances (8)

19 Firedog, also hard metal (7)

20 Source of power needed for assault (7)

23 Indian in America upsets father with pain (6)

24 Deficient and unable to perform in extremes of secrecy (6)

25 The basis of bone is one’s undoing (6)

28 Tapestry screen put up in an Amritsar rail station (5)

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