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The Hindu Crossword 9218

Across

 1 Device to measure the duration of truce, say (9)

 5 Full stop at this location (5)

 8 A sailor goes after another fearsome person (6)

 9 Get going on a voyage (3,2,3)

11 Doctor No’s kind of sound (4)

12 Pretended to be in less trouble (10)

14 A game with no big surprise (5)

15 Go beyond the limit with six deliveries, move fast (7)

16 Modern-day Hitlerite (3,4)

17 Antelope with a jumbo rib is confined here (5)

19 Leaders of small emporia occupied in apparel have a narrow escape (5,5)

20 Transport that may make heavy demands on one (4)

22 Smell the French with a head cold (8)

23 Injury that the British employ to capture one (6)

24 Following in time (5)

25 The paraphernalia needed for performing some African-American music in a back street (9)

Down

 1 Japanese floor covering with goodbye note (6)

 2 A scientist like Cousteau who spelt out organ mobilities (6,9)

 3 Vegetable, sound like a part of 1 Ac (4)

 4 In France, water from German town is fragrant stuff (3,2,7)

 5 Cakes that irate spies trashed (10)

 6 In a vessel, making one a priest shows disobedience (15)

 7 Exchange of the old (in part) for the new (5-2)

10 For an honest man, it’s somehow a very great surprise (12)

13 Neglected peacekeepers get looked after (7,3)

16  A coin is tossed in as capital (7)

18 Muscle that gets flexed in a show of might (6)

21 Hold the bag (4)

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