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The Hindu Crossword No. 9331

Across

 1 Cooking ingredient causes big cry around centre of Tours (4,5)

 5 Make a mess of the bed, go crazy (5)

 8 The colour of a male snake (6)

 9 For Rani it’s a new kind of knitting (8)

11 Windy broadcaster beginning to yell (4)

12 Thorough rogue in a cage capers wildly (10)

14 It is nonsense to accept a small bit of food (5)

15 English trucks (7)

16 Bring down the worth of money, as was done in 1966 (7)

17 That lady, Anglo-French, with a bundle (5)

19 Grab a bit of the skeleton, the clavicle (10)

20 Place in the Middle-East, 4840 square yards in area (4)

22 Lancing a straying church member (8)

23 Criticise wickedness in a note (6)

24 Insect seen in a pyramid generally creeping (5)

25 Items of food value developed in test run (9)

Down

 1 End up in wrongdoing, like a monkey (6)

 2 Badly off, deprived — of gruel, deprived in a different way (15)

 3 Begin chopping, chop and mull over (4)

 4 Cornering the market with an implosion gone endlessly wrong (12)

 5 Teddy’s park is a scene of utter confusion (4,6)

 6 Frustration at a detective inspector’s appeasement (15)

 7 Dodgers, of tax possibly (7)

10 A flibbertigibbet would spread support at home (12)

13 Something to reduce the pain but not necessarily cure the disease (10)

16 Hold forth with directions on demand (7)

18 A break on duty (6)

21 Drink poured from a carafe nicely chilled (4)

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