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The Hindu Crossword No. 9258

Across

 1 Having time on your side means more (6,7)

 8 Try to take water to a creature in cage? (7)

 9 A Spanish motorcyclist? (7)

11 Chinese secret societies placed right back on dais! (6)

13 Yellow and white container (8)

15 Royal girl in real form (5)

16 About when in France, my having driven the lads nuts (7)

18 He gets the trains running to time (7)

19 Sway to the music (5)

21 These frequenters settled down to their costume dress (8)

23 Haggard heroine demanding obedience (6)

25 The fleet, nowadays harboured, too gets hit by violent thunderstorms (7)

26 An ornament placed on shoulder of American military officer (7)

28 Be ruthless and go through all the red lights? (4,2,7)

Down

 2 Profits from a venture (7)

 3 Flammable liquid that sets countries on flames for its possession (3)

 4 Pull along for a tie (4)

 5 Pledged to a commitment (10)

 6 Excuses for having left vegetables around (5)

 7 Homesteaders on cattle land (7)

 8 How these circus dogs doing the hoop trick must suffer! (2,7,2)

10 The walk of the rich? (7,4)

12 I held out for a major settlement in India (5)

14 If all else fails, Zurich in the travel brochure? (4,6)

17 It’s indecent to put salt on a filthy place (5)

18 Lawrence is right to place small American stool (7)

20 Used for regulation of glucose in the blood (7)

22 The hobo Monsieur ensnared? (5)

24 Very cold? That’s nothing! (4)

27 Volcanic dust (3)

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