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The Hindu Crossword 9391

Across

 1 A necessary ingredient for ensuring that a product lives up to expectations (7,7)

 8 In Dabolim pedestrians may obstruct progress (6)

 9 Device for spraying a cat is about to be returned (8)

11 Sensational object found around a brook (9)

12 A game of skill in extremes of darkness (5)

13 Lewdness of a conservative husband in suspicious garb (7)

15 A bunch of flowers, say, gone rotten (7)

17 The nervous excitement of a modest bet (7)

19 A monster numbed by a bone inside (7)

21 What the lawyer may do, beginning to rant in fever (5)

23 Spanish spectacle usually fatal for a participant (9)

25 Rusted IT components found in debris (8)

26 Oddly, alien student is of unbroken descent (6)

27 A personal stake in the event makes test drive tense, unexpectedly (6,8)

Down

 1 A squint, although slight, carries weight (7)

 2 How to buy stock without paying a premium (2,3)

 3 At home, reportedly lacking interest, chap is easy-going (9)

 4 Figure of officer, reserve force, with medal, docked (7)

 5 Looking back, way of holding stock has been made tractable (5)

 6 Hormone needed by a sore gent distracted with love (9)

 7 Playful, hollow Faraday accepted danger (6)

10 “A __ beyond all telling, is hid in the heart of love” (Yeats) (4)

14 A vegetable to cure, e.g. onset of tetanus, surprisingly (9)

16 What the “best before” date shows (5,4)

17 Deceptions by German woman and daughters (6)

18 Religious education, restricted, can spring back (7)

19 Disposal of beer following hint of surplus (4)

20 French sailor, leader of men, consumed a great deal (7)

22 Live as a former champion (5)

24 Aquatic bird in a Zagreb eyrie (5)

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