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Miscellaneous - Crossword

The Hindu Crossword No. 9207

Across

1 Trace of garment that is seen around the Greek capital (7)

5 Congress meet at building — cover it with ring of folly (7)

10 Short sprint direction animal takes next to railway (6)

11 As fresh as butter can be? (8)

12 A discourse on language? (6)

13 Slippers used on the helter-skelter? (4,4)

14 There is no point to write about a knight’s ensign (6)

15 A watchman dispatched to railway (6)

18 With a light strike it reaches the height of excellence (6)

20 Ann turns to gangster, yearly (6)

23 A horse and sheep in need of sorting out! (8)

25 Understand the pike is thereabouts (6)

26 Sweethearts’ symbol sounds like misanthropic advice (4,4)

27 Girl not wanted in raising grapes (6)

28 Some quite miserly individuals wanted detail (7)

29 Very many who went fishing held out bait temptingly (7)

Down

2 Leave out old establishment point (6)

3 Support for a tripod in the year (5,4)

4 Fabulous beast King George finds somewhat phoney (7)

6 Sits around and helps a fool (7)

7 Mails distributed to a particular religious world (5)

8 Upset voter redirected to the ballot box? (8)

9 What navigable rivers are classified as in the nation’s balance sheet? (7,6)

16 Almost a disaster with ten haring all over the place? (4,5)

17 It can have an extended index, by the way (8)

19 A student framed, paints a statement of grievance (7)

21 Grain that is produced in Africa (7)

22 Scoff at Deirdre possibly losing one of her rights (6)

24 Girl has meal around a small stream of light (5)

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