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The Hindu Crossword 9121

Across

1 Colour suggestive of colours in a contusion (4-5)

5 Othello maybe, swallowing a drop of tequila in a car (5)

8 With scope, champion backs the desire to achieve (8)

9 Intense dislike for endless music, an oddity (6)

11 Make a speech in Old English about rodent (5)

12 On the firmament, harbinger of a fall (4,5)

13 Get going on the links (3,3)

14 It helps keep a member’s cover in shape (8)

16 Time of need when there is a fall? (5,3)

18 How peculiar can escapism be, if in part mysterious (6)

22 Big pet, one like Hamlet? (5,4)

23 Sportsperson who takes an awful risk around the east (5)

24 One after the other in a fight (2,1,3)

25 Cloth, one that is probably from the early Stone Age (8)

26 Girl with elegance (5)

27 Healthy lot a few are after (9)

Down

1 Teddy, abroad to confirm something (4,3)

2 Take it and feel annoyed (7)

3 Fat insect hit by a swimmer’s style (9,6)

4 Dwelling place, say, on a ship for example (6)

5 An impressive dance arranged by one suffering from severe changes of mood (5,10)

6 In a boat, rum flows from a drum (7)

7 Universal desire, perhaps, for finding balance (7)

10 Supple, like the spirit of Shelley’s skylark (non-black) (5)

15 Language of the east of India Alam left out (5)

16 Unpleasant activity on campus, severe around middle of night (7)

17 Involving a beak in flower arrangement (7)

19 Sound cue for ‘gesundheit’? (7)

20 Otalgia could make a listener suffer (7)

21 Again find a duck in Devon, swimming (2,4)

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