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The Hindu Crossword 9192

Across

1 Inflammation suffered by daily help made honkies use correction (10,4)

5 Protein from cereal that Shinglu tended to overeat (6)

9 Material for a hat, bare, new (8)

11 Its contents could go to one’s head (9)

12 Lord of the gods who brought some rain dramatically (5)

13 River that makes you get zany perhaps (7)

15 A writer about love in Italian capital returned first (7)

17 Standard clay pit is dug up (7)

19 Proverbially unmatched means of achieving a favourable outcome (7)

21 Neither yes nor no? Perhaps (5)

23 Her creche, refurbished, is known only to connoisseurs (9)

25 The first man’s drink was water (5,3)

26 Charles Rex’s house (6)

27 Does a haircloth seem wrong as a means of polishing? (7,7)

Down

1 A road to travel on: but it could be at sea level too (7)

2 You are said to change direction with a complete change in policy (1-4)

3 Terence, GI, trained to be full of vigour (9)

4 Salt lake lacking animation in the main? (4,3)

5 Material symbolising the swadeshi movement (5)

6 Alkaloid extracted from a deep Rhine dig out (9)

7 British surgeon-author with the book, “A Man of Great Learning” (6)

10 Proposal expected to include a business transaction (4)

14 Irritation to the skin of a baby caused by any sharp pressure perhaps (5,4)

16 What a conductor needs to make his music (9)

17 An alloy used in combat training (6)

18 Knowledge gained from experience, the French one, of a Rhine maiden, a danger to navigators (7)

19 One who takes care of horses with bulk, say (4)

20 Suffer the heat from a singular, confused mass (7)

22 Poems about an English town (5)

24 Collapse of a redhead in money (5)

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