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The Hindu Crossword 9460

Note: Starred clues carry no direct definition, but their solutions have something in common

Across

 1 Taking advantage of Inuit cops in order to smuggle wine inside (13)

 9 Swallow sound on spotting carnivorous mammal (6)

10 Guide for the European informers’ return (4,4)

11 Knocked cold by umpire’s decision (3)

12 * Reject the Austrian usurpation of power (6)

13 Supported the German’s firing, despite being detached (8)

14 Stable insects not to be disturbed (10)

17 Go over this when happy (4)

18 Closing word for the auditor with infectious disease (4)

19 Lady involved in trade-in is confused and put off (10)

21 Amateurish bases for wordplay (8)

23 Order to empty sherbet by mistake (6)

25 Port in Puri, Orissa (3)

26 Affront for old king from the east by one ex-PM (8)

27 * Beginners unearth radioactivity around Italian tourist village (6)

28 General coming back with frisky deer aboard fishing vessel is a smooth operator (7,6)

Down

 2 Town square of a mountain retreat in Arizona (5)

 3 Fits and removes boxed model cutting tool (9)

 4 Monarch overwhelmed by the Pole’s voice projection (5)

 5 * Revolutionary writer’s song (7)

 6 Splattered incompletely by accident with a fertilizer (9)

 7 Letters from a glib senator to the Norwegian playwright (5)

 8 Pay attention to the game in the British gallery (4,4)

15 Musical work by an eloquent speaker on a Greek nymph (8)

16 Door jamb (broken) espied by one in church (9)

17 Drug used in tin mining as a humanitarian alternative (9)

20 The nurse is in trouble following the morning event (7)

22 * Circuit connection (5)

23 Hide this description of a traditionalist (5)

24 Coastal spray in south Maine found to contain plutonium (5)

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