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The Hindu Crossword 9144

Across

 1 Taking away a specialty of Holmes (9)

 5 Lookalike produced in a chlorine unit (5)

 8 Buying and selling is a profession (8)

 9 Literary work edited and recorded (6)

11 Small, bad quality marks (5)

12 A little setback that broke the camel’s back (4,5)

13 A measure (of ice cream maybe) to get the pretty girl out of bed, say (6)

14 Kept back from the wild husband’s antics (8)

16 Cold weariness, say, may produce an uproar (8)

18 A shirt designed for an actor (6)

22 With a punch arrived the artist for a shooting device (3,6)

23 Light wood used in making tribal sampans (5)

24 Man on board — that is a new recruit (6)

25 Reveal that the CE is sold on reform (8)

26 After examination, youth leader is irritable (5)

27 A little explosive to cause a bigger explosion (9)

Down

 1 Brought down in value by action holding bachelors in (7)

 2 Solid exercises may oddly cause ravage (7)

 3 Focus of importance — that is where the weight tells (6,2,7)

 4 One point only for what the shoe may contain (6)

 5 To make an irrevocable commitment curbs choir’s tone terribly (5,3,7)

 6 Source of acorns (3,4)

 7 Provided with a culmination, was in debt (7)

10 Jelly with a seasoning? Not quite (5)

15 Leave, carrying note for tranquillity (5)

16 Nightclub entertainment that is a ‘bare act’? (7)

17 Worried Sioux, an aberrant (7)

19 ”The Spanish in Lotus Formation” is a commercial success (7)

20 Not a pro but a master, true to form (7)

21 A trial designed to get the noose (6)

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