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The Hindu Crossword No. 2498

Across

 1 Record attempt to suppress second hanging (8)

 5 An old calculator may make a graduate swear endlessly (6)

10 Slang used to describe popular US city (7)

11 Storm following hail is normal (7)

12 Swallowed drop of daiquiri before row (5)

13 A red agent murdered in restaurant (3,6)

14 Fellow grasping nothing at university? Revision is required (12)

17 Scam at Wimbledon? This could help one make a good return (6,6)

20 Touching, calling for pardon (9)

23 Some nifty rollerblading in Austrian province (5)

24 Fruit, a necessity over in South Africa (5)

25 Former PM (Labour) turned back on a number (7)

26 Hack holding page with prominent headline (6)

27 Located near each other, residential streets, extremely elegant (5-3)

Down

 1 Was first to enter extremely Spanish city (6)

 2 Fruit – it may go off (9)

 3 Keep carrying weapons and refuse to compromise? (5,2,4,4)

 4 Proper shock, female leaving (5)

 6 New Bled artist’s keen to give one pleasure (4,3,8)

 7 Daily, daughter could bring a vegetable (5)

 8 Authoritarian English novelist (6)

 9 Writer’s article about a depressed US city (8)

15 Five sat out, then left for jamboree (8)

16 Film noir, too grim – American (9)

18 Credit is doubled for use in emergency (6)

19 County town originally producing wine (6)

21 Copper, and others, after leader of mob? (5)

22 Chemist opening in Bury during Christmas (5)

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