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The Hindu Crossword 9125

Across

 1 Soft stick Duce broke and exhibited (8)

 5 Following the engineer with tongue cut off (6)

 9 That’s how long one is functional (8)

10 Note: what you do with a note (4-2)

12 Abound in proper comeback (4)

13 When a guard is tasked to study entry secretively (6,4)

15 If it is short, you don’t remember (6)

17 Indian disciple the revolutionary young boy brought back (5)

20 A small section of the Government is proficient (5)

21 Swordsman involved in defence raid (6)

24 The sort of person a scorner is (10)

27 End-of-the-day time-out is near (4)

29 How lies the head that wears the crown, proverbially (6)

30 When all the extras crowd in a film? (3,5)

31 As used to address a male Sikh (6)

32 Painstaking boss gets promises to pay (8)

Down

 1 Liking father, among others, coming up (6)

 2 Counterpoised not on group (6)

 3 Bear confined in Jaipur sanctuary (4)

 4 Cancel, before admitting a head of school (5)

 6 Oriental actress on New York wood (5)

 7 One who walks in without permission (8)

 8 Sailor’s kit got for a song? Talk up! (5,3)

11 Nearly stopping a kind of workers’ strike (4-2)

14 Defeat the superlative? (4)

16 Displease a cricket side to the extreme (6)

17 Mariners getting some terrific rewards (4)

18 It takes a lot of biting to crack and eat them (4,4)

19 People assert boldly by a section in clothes store (4,4)

22 One hundred and one gets core established for Roman philosopher (6)

23 They may be in bed or they may be read (6)

25 Disorganised, away from land (2,3)

26 German submarine moving about (1-4)

28 Second-hand from American journalist (4)

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