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The Hindu Crossword No. 3266

Across

1 Keen on board to win lottery (10)

6 Work in shop, usefully (4)

9 Tear in top worker’s trousers (5,5)

10 Very nicely (4)

11 Very nearly, or very wellbehaved? (2,4,2,4)

15 A Conservative declaration gets praise (7)

16 Nursed a poorly ballerina’s partner (7)

17 Warning card (7)

19 A bridge hand easy to play? No, a pal and I suspect (7)

20 Something more noticeable smeared on garage exit (12)

23 Become a member of nightclub, briefly (4)

24 Director coming from Japan’s capital via Mysore, possibly (5,5)

25 Ring gang (4)

26 Singer in study accepting a short drink (4,6)

Down

1 Rifle fire (4)

2 Face of estate agent’s watch (4)

3 Careful, father at home betting (11)

4 Small restaurant with rent the reverse of low (3,4)

5 Girl starts to delve into digest used for cricket (7)

7 Start to pillory female on about flipping Captain Marvel? (10)

8 Shriek catching a boy dressing (5,5)

12 As a con man it worked, in a city near LA (5,6)

13 Axe 14 in severe reduction (7,3)

14 Calling for the seizure and control of a foreign territory (10)

18 Sporting rare tan, recount events (7)

19 Glib talk by northern model (7)

21 Did battle, reportedly, in citadel (4)

22 Girl from Brooklyn neighbourhood (4)

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