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The Hindu crossword 9439

Note: Starred clues carry no direct definition, but their solutions are all of a kind.

Across

 1 Stitch a royal scarf for the British award for management

 6 Old woman on a horse coming back to imprison king (4)

10 The date taken out by the maiden boasted and struck a bad note (9)

11 *Groan in a bad way (5)

12 Rate the setter’s adaptation of the dramatisation of a social issue (6,7)

14 *Cross for a single to return to the Pavilion End (5)

15 Use Ninth Amendment to manufacture a prefab shelter (6,3)

17 Approximately 82 per cent of the painkiller has been refined (9)

21 This needs to be faced in order to accept responsibility (5)

22 Leisure song is rewritten due to piety (13)

24 Malaysian fishing port featured in The Weekend Australian (5)

25 Orchestra conductor from Italy goes west to grasp an icon’s works (9)

26 Gate Alaskan natives initially inside North Dakota (4)

27 Greek character about to grind oil grain that is stale (10)

Down

 1 Hum a solo composition while entertaining former partner who is not straight (10)

 2 Typos found by vocal young lady (a royal according to hearsay) (9)

 3 Plant causing linoleum to crack up in the absence of oxygen (7)

 4 *Vault reported to be in Ontario (7)

 5 The underdogs assemble (it is no party!) to become pushers (7)

 7 Revolutionary to try and be contrite about the miscreant (5)

 8 Baseball team from the Kalinin exurb (4)

 9 Keep rook (6)

13 Frozen inventory found in the distillery (5-5)

16 Point accepted by confused Pharisee about the occidental (9)

18 *Buzz surrounding the Spanish unit (6)

19 Business big shot announces contract (7)

20 A beggar can’t hope to be one! (7)

21 Equine Ford model (7)

22 *Advertisement for a vitamin seen in GPS-like device (5)

23 *Letters from Eugene O’Neill (4)

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