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The Hindu Crossword No. 2500

 1 Sign shown in chart by car (9)

 6 In flat, child is secure (5)

 9 A danger to shipping one key diver recalled (7)

10 Royal attendant wasting time with messenger (7)

11 Speak bluntly, as gunslingers

do? (5,4,3,3)

12 Son’s desire to be smart (5)

13 Rail fare may be taken here (6,3)

15 Suddenly everyone’s in agreement about clubs (3,2,4)

18 King, novelist (5)

19 Private college for girls getting rid of coach (9,6)

22 Annoyance shown by Greek character back on barge, adrift (7)

23 A rum one, eccentric enough to charm (7)

24 Pinch wood including bit of walnut (5)

25 Garden huts, those sold

abroad (9)

Down

 1 Sign of tooth decay – canine needs removing (5)

 2 Article on party getting unemployment benefit (3,6)

 3 Fish in muddy waters – hake, right? (5,5,5)

 4 Enranged, possibly (7)

 5 Journalist, male, with an actor (7)

 6 Chuckling over fool with kookaburra (8,7)

 7 Tattooed initially over good part of leg (5)

 8 Woodland plant, brier, has grown wild round front of plot (4,5)

12 Carambola and fir Stuart chopped up (4,5)

14 Naval officer finding gold in chest of drawers (9)

16 Most unsophisticated, one wearing North American

waistcoat (7)

17 Creole cooking absorbing good Spanish painter (2,5)

20 Person of wealth, the Parisian aristocrat (5)

21 Girl crossing river to find a

lemur (5)

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