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The Hindu Crossword 9137

Across

 1 Do out of a note with cunning (7)

 5 Gun carried by regulars and volunteers for main contest (7)

 9 The estate key men see distributed (7)

10 A contract based on marine map is taken with hesitation (7)

11 Wife and a woman (5)

12 Well patients do not need it (9)

13 Five hundred in the price for release (9)

15 Tables for writing and reading (5)

16 Difficult to bite a card (5)

18 Capital fellows — in pairs, as required (9)

21 Inner gate conceals mandarin (9)

24 Light cavalryman Hal could have been caught by one in France (5)

25 Subjugate East Balkans inhabitant in the North East (7)

26 Responses to doubts (7)

27 Made poems for ten sons (7)

28 Calms down lawyer with a quarter to right the setback (7)

Down

 1 Aim to love and marry if given a grant (7)

 2 Hesitates over pit on finding stoats’ fur (7)

 3 A French male the cads molested is not hurt (9)

 4 Held by college lecturers due to take up appointments (5)

 5 Disturbance always caused by a fraudster (9)

 6 Greek worker gets an allowance (5)

 7 Threatens to fall by walking unsteadily (7)

 8 Abstainer has to steer around, to charge air or carbon dioxide (7)

14 Restorers who go and get married again? (9)

15 Expressed disgust at being talked about (9)

16 Stage performer caught sapper harboured by a dope (7)

17 Continues to vociferate “The worker’s in the right, boy!” (5,2)

19 I lament disablement! (7)

20 They cause the inflamed nose to drip incessantly (7)

22 To slip away Eve has to take in the present (5)

23 Same ten assembled for brief tests (5)

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