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The Hindu Crossword 9161

Across

 1 Monarch joined in league with friends for common purpose (7)

 5 Elementary introduction to middle English the right way (7)

 9 Choke up points which binds security (5)

10 To be fleet, fill lots as ordered (9)

11 To add up amounts gangster gets in kinds (6)

12 Terns go south in error — but not this bird (8)

14 Old boy, look around — you have put on lot of weight (5)

15 Publicly known that there’s no alternative to paying debts (9)

18 A visitor to places of interest (9)

20 Time to rope in disorderly drunkard (5)

22 Highlander escapes from paying tax (8)

24 Temporary occupant gets in a portable shelter (6)

26 Swindler put on trial didn’t plead guilty (9)

27 Carrying out given work (5)

28 Tested affirmative vote on Germany (7)

29 Characteristic indication of the existence of a state (7)

Down

 1 Honest as this rogue could be (9)

 2 General waits around gate to receive bequest of property (7)

 3 Not disposed to snivel, though unable to settle (9)

 4 The French fellow takes a clever way to handle things (4)

 5 Eminence of conservative following concert in progress (10)

 6 Sugar coating (5)

 7 Drunken lout married to a black half breed (7)

 8 Good man to set alternative way for critical trials (5)

13 Champion’s exploit in a French action (10)

16 Mother goes after a despicable fellow to get Dutch port (9)

17 Device levels stone (9)

19 Runs ashore for logical reasons (7)

21 With deft touches on black and white keys, he produces music (7)

22 Arcs that make up the human pelvic region (5)

23 Disgust with railway makes him irritable (5)

25 Totals, the dads find it a sad turn (4)

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