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The Hindu Crossword 9077

Across

1 Fireplug, English style (7)

5 One who gives the lie to an arbiter? Oddly, true (7)

9 One treating through exercises etc. re-creates happiest history (15)

10 Top military cover (3,3)

11 Fuel that can scorch, fossil fuel (8)

13 Playwright who revised ‘Giant Rat’ (8)

15 What a court may do to a judgment in an unsuccessful appeal (6)

18 Prone to have a meal in the east (6)

19 … ordering items individually from the menu (1,2,5)

22 Released from obligation, ex-MP teed off (8)

24 Black eye, one that glistens (6)

27 USS Nimitz for one (8,7)

28 Tay sure develops into a widening channel near the sea (7)

29 Connection between rafters with a side that is black within (7)

Down

1 Trousers for a modern jazz enthusiast (7)

2 Senior member of society with party money (5)

3 Vivacity shown by a cartoonist? (9)

4 American poet in an English gallery (4)

5 Bounce back again with fresh cheer and love (2-4)

6 Natural ability shown by student in exposition (5)

7 It is standard in India (9)

8 Frightened by noisy toy, died (7)

12 Watering hole to which lawyers may be called (3)

14 Most hush-hush with respect to change (3,6)

16 Cover up ruler on mount, a carrier (7)

17 Everything for a couple of pounds (3)

18 Observe and announce a leak (7)

20 A murder solved by a sound transmitter (7)

21 One would be crazy to have bats in there (6)

23 For a garden, a warm jacket (5)

25 Ingenuous one in a part of the church (5)

26 Run away from confiscators (4)

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