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The Hindu Crossword 9058

Across

 1 A Line of Deed takes one to this English novelist (6,5)

 6 7 Down reversed (3)

 9 Universal Air Letter gives much pleasure (10)

10 Illegal arms pose a potential wake-up call (5)

12 This fast boat also goes with hair, hedge, nail and such things! (7)

13 The Paradise of fools, according to John Milton (5)

14 Universal drag for protection (5)

20 Shakespearean heroine wriggling within the walls of Rimini is simply irresistible! (7)

21 Being senile is no oriental punishment in schools (5)

22 11 Down. A philosophical doctrine that, along with 1, 11 Down has also been is also a guide to action (10,11)

25 23 Down reversed (3)

26 "Yo-ho-ho, and a ----- -- ---!’(6,2,3)

Down

 1, 11 see 22 Across, 11 Down (11,11)

 2 A Fifty Iron Stone goes to make this sensitive organ (7)

 3 A crooked star surrounded by Druid guards? What a coward! (7)

 4 "The love of women! It is known/To be a lovely and ------ thing”. Don Juan, Lord Byron (7)

 5 Anagram of 23 Down and 25 Across

 6 Postage was once a terror! (7)

 7 See 6 Across

 8 Professional Postscript? That’s what every play needs (5)

10 One who maims hides his objective (3)

11 See 1 Across

14 Universal wangle can hold a threat (7)

15 Law is but an --- (3)

16 I am in the middle of an unusual advent, and so appear an odd ball (7)

17 Hamlet’s description of the ‘porpentine’ (7)

18 The Red vase maintains (5)

19 Fellow performer (2-5)

23 See 5

24 Bad company can be tasteful (3)

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