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The Hindu Crossword 9520

Across

 1 Is Longman scared off by one who loves to gossip? (13)

10 Prosperity of a dealer in stolen goods carrying infection (9)

11 Bit of a rare curiosity that may happen again (5)

12 Invitees give up time to make an inference (5)

13 Specialist in one sense, would love to record Indian time (9)

14 Girl in outskirts of Trinidad is browned (6)

16 Very pale cover for four or six (5)

19 Archer’s weapon that is a kind of knife (5)

20 Snake encircles general in slumber (6)

25 Remarkable things bring, for men, a new hope perhaps (9)

26 Look, American English from a mean chap! (5)

27 An hour after midnight in Michigan? No, in Florida (5)

28 What smoking may turn out to be (9)

29 Going easy with some mild cycling (4-9)

Down

 2 What is it in it in tea that may make it 28? (8)

 3 In grammar, they may be proper (5)

 4 Embryonic cover seen back in Locarno in mammals (6)

 5 An aid to memory that married men coin (8)

 6 Illegal drugs found in North Arcot by old civilians (9)

 7 He made geometry somehow lucid, after end of muddle (6)

 8 Tom’s contribution to the strings in the orchestra? (6)

 9 Beginning today, compassion is a proven fact (5)

15 An expert maybe but he need not necessarily advocate thrift (9)

17 Able to read and write but tardy about strange rite (8)

18 Mistaken belief, one of those associated with grandeur (8)

21 Kitchen device for old English leader with queen’s support (6)

22 Resort to litigation involving post master, fume and froth (5)

23 Smooth and flowing bit of music gets support at start of orchestration (6)

24 A girl among students and radicals (6)

26 Neighbourhood watering hole (5)

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