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The Hindu Crossword 9425

Across

 1 A vegetable sack for a cushion (4,3)

 5 What a persistent caller does? (7)

 9 High law officer who must have energy or a talent for reform (8,7)

10 Bargain with some nomadic kerb-vendors (6)

11 One master shown to have made progress (8)

13 Kind of steps a doctor takes (8)

15 One man’s meat perhaps, proverbially deadly stuff (6)

18 Splendour that is like fire around the north (5)

19 Midday meal, formal version (8)

22 A tack and a tool for manicure (8)

24 Race on skis — on a small round course? (6)

27 Enthusiastic response that gets the audience on their feet (8,7)

28 Beg for a bit of frozen treated fruit (7)

29 Mark the French make on a foot pedal (7)

Down

 1 Student who lives in, for bread or otherwise (7)

 2 Room at the top! (5)

 3 He dispenses drinks — to finish off a title-holder? (9)

 4 German general displays great delight (4)

 5 Emigré’s interpretation of a system of government (6)

 6 A benefactor at the entrance admitting Pole (5)

 7 Reach around the first unscrupulous, ambitious one (9)

 8 Old sultan who found a boy steeped in wrongdoing (7)

12 Catch up with prohibition (3)

14 Begging for a masculine finish? I am unable to (9)

16 Let social changes swing back and forth (9)

17 Signal for action used in billiards (3)

18 Tact and poise shown in grief in essence (7)

20 One appointed to act for another (7)

21 Scheme an alien made for Jupiter, say (6)

23 The toffee to avoid (5)

25 Estate owner finds atmosphere in the environs of Lynwood (5)

26 Army officer, first to train a horse (4)

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