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The Hindu Crossword 9167

Across

 1 Incapable of serious thought, bandit creates royal confusion (14)

 8 American car right for a shifty chap (6)

 9 Kind of gun, very big, is causing narrowing of body channels (8)

11 A flavouring to improve rancid roe (9)

12 An accountant in business is evergreen (5)

13 The contradiction about poetry (7)

15 Compressed cosmetic good enough to eat! (7)

17 Concentrated on getting a female military officer put into service (7)

19 Heavenly delivery? (7)

21 In Africa lilies get this colour back (5)

23 A rotten fog conquered and wiped off from memory (9)

25 Begin LAN operation, providing the required power (8)

26 I’m back, like master, in an unwholesome atmosphere (6)

27 Sen sent Sellers scurrying, showing implacability (14)

Down

 1 Possibly right transport, an attachment (7)

 2 A plant by daughter steeped in drink? Right (5)

 3 He’s wearing a sign for a book of words (9)

 4 Rodent catcher (3,4)

 5 One on one hundred occurring in the form of charged atoms (5)

 6 Comfortable seat, nothing hard about it (4,5)

 7 On land the ore has been dissipated (6)

10 Tool that reportedly provides a supplement (4)

14 Blow hot and cold but give up possession, being sick at heart (9)

16 A stoic can run off with such drugs (9)

17 Be hesitant to change after onset of fall (6)

18 Heartless cat, unfed, turns dead (7)

19 Well-ventilated part of a fairy-tale mansion (4)

20 Friends that have correspondence (3,4)

22 Chole cooked by goddess of green crops (5)

24 A test designed for discrimination (5)

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