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The Hindu Crossword 9101

Across

 1 Apsara, perhaps, or first of apsaras embraced by a man of religion (7)

 5 Transport requiring manpower? (7)

 9 Diocesan’s riches marred by recurring ailments (7,8)

10 Captivate but finish off listener (6)

11 In times gone by, I included butter in smoked beef (8)

13 One who meets the demand (8)

15 Time for a leap (6)

18 Lakshman rekha at Chepauk (6)

19 Having a spine? Redo chat anyhow (8)

22 Supervisor of poetry accepted by old queen (8)

24 Cloud distracts minibus, dislodging one (6)

27 Concede a walkover and reveal the secret (4,3,4,4)

28 Mordant but oddly inactive (7)

29 British engineers, weary, were pensioned off (7)

Down

 1 A disease of leaping insects, losing head (7)

 2 Broadcast by our radio journalist (5)

 3 Half a score of stories about hundred grasping organs (9)

 4 Get up, say, for some food (4)

 5 Such finery in a large bird perhaps (6)

 6 Box, container for the ticker (5)

 7 Conservative Croatia’s distressed by Central American state (5,4)

 8 Following directions, going to court (7)

12 One of those precious things in Gray’s caves of the ocean (3)

14 He protects a standby in public relations (9)

16 Having relevance but cheeky in ten variations (9)

17 A question of identity (3)

18 Obstructed but entered in the record after a bit of clearing (7)

20 Made an effort to develop, say, seed (7)

21 Proper come down, leaving the centre of Essen (6)

23 Town in India that NASA exposed, taking little time (5)

25 Fiddler in the garden (5)

26 Middling one in remote location (4)

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