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The Hindu Crossword No. 9279

Across

 1 Oh madam, I nearly bled! Can I be taken out? (9)

 6 Frilling used in ecru chemises (5)

 9 You need to tie her up with a knight (5)

10 Gathering done in great number for a service, we hear (9)

11 Supported animated in trouble (10)

12 Hold me back on the way (4)

14 They may propel balls to great length (7)

15 Freckle observed by astronomers (7)

17 Red returns with barren heart as a stripper of land (7)

19 Makes comments about German currency with the dollar (7)

20 Name it in the Church of England (4)

22 Sight for sore eyes (10)

25 Play some role in dismantling (4,5)

26 Keen to agree somehow (5)

27 Extremely stupid to have office in quarter (5)

28 Scandalous informers (9)

Down

 1 Render planks of a boat watertight by pressing old ropes into its seams (5)

 2 Instant perception is needed in teaching (9)

 3 Bed linen gets twisted — gets into knots (5,5)

 4 Closer fitting hats made in Eastern base (7)

 5 In their cunning ways they slip away (7)

 6 Rugby union on the way becoming inefficient by inaction (4)

 7 Lower quality bread made to deceive (5)

 8 I’m going into property assessments (9)

13 A spy of the hostile country (5,5)

14 Devoted wholeheartedly he acted, but died in a ferment (9)

16 Al on a faulty leg becomes a lawyer’s assistant (9)

18 It’s about time to have plan to surgically replace a severed limb (7)

19 To many it was a real music performance by a composer (7)

21 Mark of authenticity (5)

23 Separates into lots (5)

24 Protective screen used for batting practice (4)

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