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The Hindu Crossword 9518

Sankalak

Across

1 Canine racer for a reported elegist to pursue (9)

5 Fundamental computer programme (5)

8 Hammer’s partner in communist symbolism (6)

9 Kiss an outsize copper tardily (8)

11 Slippery swimmers caught in a creel somehow (4)

12 Indian greeting a new red-back amphibian (10)

14 Kind of optical lens, a bit of a historical development (5)

15 A heavy smoker maybe, needing a sweep from time to time (7)

16 What the temple visitor gets — an audience (7)

17 Sailors heard in a Cheshire town (5)

19 Give up devious inquiries involving left hand (10)

20 The same but different flat-topped hill (4)

22 They travel for pleasure, agents escorting teacher in retreat (8)

23 Weaver’s aid, in extremes of gravity, is depressing (6)

24 Thing that strains is back with girl (5)

25 One who shells out local taxes, a rare type however (9)

Down

1 Good theatre attendant but an overeffusive person (6)

2 In a contract it takes care of variations in cost (9,6)

3 A golfer’s objective, one of many on course (4)

4 Box for papers to which, oddly, pet had access (8,4)

5 Treated savagely, reserve force student is wounded externally (10)

6 Do not sit over ritual, insist on formality (5,2,8)

7 Leaders of class before time, without doubt (7)

10 One that is not conducive to current flow? (3,9)

13 Awful oriental peril surrounding egg producers is catching (10)

16 Downgrades engagements involving emergency room (7)

18 What one my hear in Budapest (6)

21 Black sauce causes a spot on the radar screen (4)

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