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The Hindu Crossword 9288

Across

 1 Oddly, our U movies hurt a part of the eye (8,6)

 8 It can stretch a match at cards (6)

 9 Brown-haired girl, violent one, straddles snare (8)

11 Pride disrupts organ care (9)

12 The best product from a dairy (5)

13 Hard work leaves a mark around Virginia (7)

15 The kind of account for money set aside (7)

17 Be in the running to rewrite poem etc. (7)

19 Able to meet one’s financial obligations, therefore advanced about five (7)

21 The inspection to make an embezzler anxious (5)

23 In a hamlet, men processed Swiss cheese (9)

25 Rapidity shown in dumping it in a vegetable (8)

26 Cover around the head for a member trapped in trickery (6)

27 Insect in a long American river tracked by famous old singer, reportedly (8,6)

Down

 1 Modification of an originally valuable song book (7)

 2 A fleshy stem underground? Right (5)

 3 A large, shallow lake makes one always happy, with a bit of ecstasy (9)

 4 Poles share funny equipment to secure the animal to a cart (7)

 5 The chap in charge is very energetic (5)

 6 The tune pa played to raise the stakes (2,3,4)

 7 Part of the skin that Sunder missed to spot here (6)

10 Blue dye that is a noting! (4)

14 Creature — a right crazy, sick duck (9)

16 Token of love that blossoms in February? (9)

17 Risk taken by a revolutionary giving shelter to African party (6)

18 Choose an academician, one in Greek mythology (7)

19 Some wrestling for money and love (4)

20 A flammable liquid, a substance with most of the constituents of 19 (7)

22 Bone decay reversed in a trunk (5)

24 Get away with work in a big commercial success (3,2)

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