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The Hindu Crossword 9572

Across

 1 Begins after having convulsions and has only spasmodic bursts of activity (4,3,6)

 8 Take issue about heel getting the cheese (7)

 9 Stirred painter up, having nothing to be employed (7)

11 Bird sanctuary by railway beneath a Roman road (6)

13 What cooks would have used in preference to sails? (8)

15 Put down to mix with something inferior (5)

16 Excuses for remission (7)

18 The nerve of one, swimming from the ship! (7)

19 Al later takes to fashion according to key of a fugue (5)

21 Drive into rickety carts, the old vehicles (8)

23 Proposal that creates a stir (6)

25 Ron said to arrange flat weapon pointed at both ends (7)

26 Displays that leave their mark (7)

28 Think about Samuel’s mentor perpetrating perjury (10,3)

Down

 2 Being first in, one always started without it (7)

 3 Be a candidate to undergo an examination (3)

 4 Nun we hear, gives no quarter to anyone (4)

 5 Affecting the ratings? That’s smashing! (10)

 6 Market place in ancient Greece! (5)

 7 They conduct fitness trials for admission (7)

 8 They grow up only slowly underground (11)

10 Supporters getting about in trains (11)

12 Al goes with Roy in style befitting a king (5)

14 One wrapping soft fruit with an air (10)

17 Go one better with the wrong party! (5)

18 Madly endear to King George, he being of royal family (7)

20 Wild boar in one African city (7)

22 One going after fish bones (5)

24 Portico or covered colonnade so constructed at ancient Greece (4)

27 Make a knot, to fasten (3)

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