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The Hindu Crossword 9245

Across

 1 Work of the highest excellence in a race (7)

 5 Sir, I act funny, cynical! (7)

 9 One should be mad to have clubs in the tower (4,2,3,6)

10 Succulent plant or an evergreen (6)

11 Again got to know about real rent adjustment (8)

13 One who obtains compliance among men for certain (8)

15 It can bring traffic to a stop (6)

18 Martial art with which King Edward caught a deserter (6)

19 First public performance by head of government, excellent beginning (8)

22 Unconsciousness makes Ian cross, silly (8)

24 Beautiful flower from Neyveli or Chidambaram (6)

27 Homely indications, say, for training in household duties (8,7)

28 French artist was a ship’s officer who captured one ship (7)

29 A way in hostelries to get the viscera (7)

Down

 1 Accountant on a drinking bout, say, in ship’s galley (7)

 2 Place about to be turned over? Behave in a troublesome way (3,2)

 3 Present in fresh form is a part of a spider producing silk threads (9)

 4 Attractive stick for snooker players, a bit twisted inside (4)

 5 Spot a revolutionary? Beome very angry (3,3)

 6 Pronoun, determiner of the point (5)

 7 Allusion to a testimonial (9)

 8 Costly glass as seen as in a famous palace once (7)

12 Fix a drink (3)

14 Nowhere near that (3,4,2)

16 Baptism with a kind of heater (9)

17 Cook a little fish (3)

18 Monarchy is doing badly in the outskirts of Khartoum (7)

20 What goes on and on is this (7)

21 Forceful but offensive about time in prison (6)

23 Grouping of western countries, one’s refuge (5)

25 It brings an edge to a weapon (5)

26 It’s a variety of white wine from Italy (4)

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