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The Hindu Crossword 9270

Across

 1,9 Proverbial admonition not to disturb slumbering canines (3,8,4,3)

10 Sauce needed to get through a reserve force (7)

11 Capital to put to the torch, say (5)

12 Such payment can only be partial (2,7)

13 A bit of what favours the brave (4)

15 A salt — it comes in a strong wooden case (7)

19 Fruit, a tropic variety (7)

20 Object of worship that an old ruler of Delhi repulsed (4)

24 A son is glad playing for musical effect (9)

25 Bare hooligan grabs a ruler (5)

27 Strange objects, once relating to the ear, start appearing (7)

28 Hunter’s targets in a World Cup final perhaps (3,4)

29 Songbird, a source of comfort to the wounded in the Crimean War (11)

Down

 1 A regal sort of drink (5)

 2 In the bank, does he give information with hesitation? (6)

 3 Be prone to sound like a cow but stay hidden (3,3)

 4 What an English legislator has is stress (8)

 5 Sincere head of university, troubled, is lacking confidence (8)

 6 Got a degree marked with divisions (9)

 7 Strange delivery from an eccentric (7)

 8 Company accommodates worker in a section of a poem (5)

14 In Italian island resort, officer (British navy), gets a sign (9)

16 Singling out a drink (3,5)

17 Dispirited players follow this kind of clue (8)

18 A second grade climbing aid — inflated sac (7)

21 Moth about to grab breakfast food thrown up (5)

22 Doubly good French confectionary (6)

23 Riddle of a game in jeopardy (6)

26 The rogue in the pack (5)

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