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The Hindu Crossword 9632

Across

1 Shame! Don’t believe it! (9)

6 They have a sting in the tail in Aristophanes’ play (5)

9 Grant prize for an advertisement about hostilities (5)

10 Concerned with rhythm? Not too soon, either (5,4)

11 Utter refutation of housing list request? (4,6)

12 Very old fashioned ‘Egad!’ (4)

14 Tied my money so made it impossible to proceed (7)

15 Can make it possible to understand (7)

17 Their dictators failed twice to dominate world powers (7)

19 Made list to rob items in this English city (7)

20 Still no wind for many in the river (4)

22 Paid to have come to rest (6,4)

25 The sap too stupid to get manipulator (9)

26 Longed to have a civil engineer (5)

27 Extract metal from freshwater fish (5)

28 Almost certain to give yield (9)

Down

1 Ward off fellow small man (5)

2 Rating at the bar? (3,6)

3 Real Madrid, turning out, display a butterfly (3,7)

4 At end I got crooked doctor discharged (7)

5 Strong hardworking persons from an ancient city (7)

6 Have the power of combining ideas with pointed verbal effect (4)

7 Smart cheat (5)

8 Pretty plant becoming dreadful weed in time (9)

13 Purposeful muse (10)

14 Same as perspicacious (9)

16 One spoken for by ringing (9)

18 Repeated alternation in decision making (7)

19 He delights in bloody deeds (7)

21 Turner’s state of agitation curtailed (5)

23 At the bottom of an emotional state (5)

24 Place where a soldier is assigned for duty (4)

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