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The Hindu Crossword 9212

Across

 1 Its ways of viewing venomous snake and sect of a kind (7)

 5 Possibly an assistant to a waiter? (7)

 9 Sailor managed to remain on river (7)

10 Revised night note will be too close to deviate from plan (7)

11 American Indian Ute tribe are rightly set to be more accurately adjusted (5)

12 An indoor game of trifling importance (9)

13 Revolutionary action of libel infuriated Nero (9)

15 Posse drawn to recover Mexican dollars (5)

16 Graduate goes to Rio to meet a cartoonist! (5)

18 Pitched into an ugly villain without any effect (3,2,4)

21 Sin compounded by voters who are out to make money (9)

24 Save so to speak, from the mob (5)

25 Stroke of luck — like a rich vein of precious ore (7)

26 Body directing affairs of a town (7)

27 Tough interrogators of postage changes (7)

28 Afternoon sleep hours (7)

Down

 1 Scholar returns with instrument to measure current (7)

 2 Flourish old city, British want to greatly disturb (7)

 3 The lowest female singing voice (9)

 4 Abandon plans to cover country with brushwood (5)

 5 Strange shape for a long coat (9)

 6 There’s a curious thing at the end of the day (5)

 7 Finally permits racket use for contest of opposing parties (7)

 8 Separates when below, harboured by ship (7)

14 Beloved old sailor back in low environment (9)

15 Accommodation for top people? (9)

16 Wrap up sack for the post (7)

17 Painter draws grape plants in deep gorges (7)

19 Fruit that’s quite new to Capri (7)

20 Goads one to a feeling of irritation (7)

22 Devout one distributes presents in the last month (5)

23 Plunders dry white wines from Spain (5)

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