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The Hindu Crossword 9145

Across

 1 Register of names includes a group in an Egyptian location (7)

 6 Tea with nuts, treatment for a disease (7)

 9 Windows to computer work (9,6)

10 A man-eater among the lesser gorillas, in retreat (6)

11 Ragu left upset but appreciative (8)

13 Try a little flower with a sensory organ (5,3)

15 Character in Nineteen Eighty-four, performing, holding cheese (1’5)

18 Being hard to please, reportedly bites with yen (6)

19 Hypersensitive to garlic? The French? Silly! (8)

22 Say, good shrub yields tasty vegetable (8)

24 Ailment often suffered by those who are 19 (6)

27 A regnant soprano, oddly, is an unwelcome individual (7,3,5)

28 Veneration for a bizarre spectre (7)

29 Severely affected by a strong blow (4,3)

Down

 1 Completely get rid of the base? Impossible (4,3)

 2 Take an oath to be foul-mouthed (5)

 3 Relocations the serf rants about (9)

 4 Dry, like a stretch in the present time (4)

 5 Nobel Prize winner who rewrote “Great Love” (6)

 6 Make an attempt, good man, for an appointment (5)

 7 Advising about fog in N.Y. — it is difficult (9)

 8 Tunnel in Europe, almost plain, working (7)

12 Take legal action against a girl (3)

14 Beginning to see in what manner lasses become performers in a chorus (9)

16 Sweetener, can it excel, say, sucrose? (4,5)

17 Growth that is somewhat overwhelming (3)

18 Sounds like a young bird, but not so dear (7)

20 Noisy, insincere talk about flight (7)

21 Faction without love crumbles in reality (2,4)

23 Free of restraint, is immoral (5)

25 Protective cover loses a point in unfarmed land (5)

26 Insect seen flying up in a lush tomato patch (4)

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