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The Hindu Crossword 9266

Across

 1 Officer, club worker, is ready to fight (9)

 5 Heavy pole used in tossing contest used by engineer in transport (5)

 8 Where food may be stored by some muscular dervishes (6)

 9 Continuing relationship between male and female may put PRO in bad trouble (4,4)

11 Sound like a pig (4)

12 A rapid snake could be a missile (10)

14 What an Eskimo would rather be known as (5)

15 Penalty distributed in abundance (7)

16 A hobby for father’s day perhaps (7)

17 The power of a side (5)

19 Meat-eaters, with ecstasy, rovin’ back in vehicles (10)

20 Merriment before ruler produces fear (4)

22 Soft and delicate editor made an offer (8)

23 Reach a conclusion to tighten the spring (4,2)

24 Turn inside out, always before time (5)

25 Enter plea deviously for a deciduous growth (5,4)

Down

 1 Visit everyone included in argument (4,2)

 2 Soldier at home, certain to include African party in cover against risk on the high seas (6,9)

 3 Cut down by an unknown journalist (4)

 4 One of those sought to be tackled in the Doha Round, say (5,7)

 5 Medical science that makes a coy girl do a turn (10)

 6 Gore with a lot of noise — features of such a violent action movie (5,3,7)

 7 Colourful soldiers of a creation after the Bolshevik Revolution (3,4)

10 Girl in the nursery who missed some sheep (6,2,4)

13 Extremely generous spell for UNICEF in Montana (10)

16 Carnation that evokes poetic fantasy around the east (7)

18 Penny jokes about a location in Macedonia (6)

21 Gain a point with intoxicating drink (4)

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