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The Hindu Crossword 9178

Across

1 To oust, clumsily puts across a scheme (8)

5 Prepare top field (6)

10 Foreign national unravels a lie, Sir (7)

11 Yet it could be a hot favourite among spectators (3-4)

12 Ugly monster when no drink is brought back (6)

13 Sweet wine that the daily once brewed (8)

15 Rewards foreign country? (4)

16 On which one can’t write much but from which one may read great stuff (5,5)

18 Crowd controllers brought on by violent coolie trip (4,6)

20 Trade Union writing back an obscenity (4)

23 Nations have to bridge to improve this situation in balance of payments (5,3)

24 All for making a kind of tribute? (6)

26 First of occupants in a car damaged the instrument (7)

27 Mantra by general average traveller in India (7)

28 Lament about the French means of transport (6)

29 Moreover, bring about a marking (8)

Down

1 Deceptive acts to catch criminals — what a scorpion may indulge in? (5,10)

2 Left with an artist (unknown) to illustrate (7)

3 Be in an abject position (3,3)

4 North Indian leader hauled from Chennai kalyanamandapam (4)

6 Matured beyond age (8)

7 Anti-smokers would want all cigarettes to be reduced to this (3-4)

8 What a police investigator may tell the person grilled (3,5,7)

9 One looks up to where an aristocrat is (4,5)

14 Suspect what a hungry feline might do? (5,1,3)

17 Rushing river rises in season — cap of rafter’s lost (8)

19 Darken portion of the lollipop a caterer produces (7)

21 Ram hit a different version in language (7)

22 “If music be the food of love, — —” (Shakespeare) (,4,2)

25 Gelling agent from Agra (4)

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