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The Hindu Crossword No. 9276

Across

 1 Bandage the head of the wounded before criticism (8)

 5 The Spanish caught in periods of holdups (6)

10 Fan mired badly in borders of Ajmer (7)

11 Least changes embrace the Spanish novel heroine (7)

12 Old fogey to squat down (6)

13 Niggle about a couple of partners sporting slight sleepwear (8)

15 Back on borders of Ajmer (4)

16 Flew into a rage and hammered a few eaves? (3,3,4)

18 Not that its members are fighting forever (6,4)

20 Somewhat treacherous figure in a novel (4)

23 Former prince and vicar get debt notices (8)

24 One of an audience (6)

26 Properties in European countries (7)

27 “Do not torment me, __” (The Tempest) (7)

28 Makes clean moves? (6)

29 Inclination to drift? (8)

Down

 1 Predictably they have to work in season and out of season (7,8)

 2 Drunk miner caught by abstainers here (7)

 3 Ale for help at railway station (6)

 4 Agatha Christie’s novel title provides standard (4)

 6 Praised former wife and rang (8)

 7 Fast! Almost claim run out! (7)

 8 One should not get drunk to be in this (5,2,8)

 9 Marked by anger, fleet runs helter-skelter (9)

14 Half way (9)

17 This takes a lot of hammering (5-3)

19 Contend with Western Railway steel organisation (7)

21 Listener, as a consequence, is worldly (7)

22 Tickle one’s memory that drunk miner is on top of dome (6)

25 Mistake learner leaving section of church (4)

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