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The Hindu Crossword 10186

1 Opponents cackle wildly over jewel (8)

5 Floods alligator milieux (6)

9 Mr. X is also in fair (2-3-2)

10 Wickedness in a revolutionary is abused (7)

11 The hedge plant formed an odd line (9)

12 Good to be in bike outing for low hill (5)

13 Farmland pest eats away core of material (4)

14 Overcome by years, faulty gut creaks (3-6)

17 Thing given away to Cockney girl by politician (9)

19 Barely brown part of piecrust (4)

23 Broadcaster, more just, less loud (5)

24 Produces chromosome unit and charges (9)

25 Account set in a different manner for private quarters (7)

26 Italian seaport majestic to a great extent (7)

27 Fisherman begins losing in fury (6)

28 Wrong a good, almost stern, woman (8)

Down

1 Almost clear, so involved in rise — and sudden drop (8)

2 Medium trench? (7)

3 One who's taken in (6)

4 Those times just before the curtains will be brought down? (7,6)

6 Fence-sitters, say, in sort of trousers getting no publicity (8)

7 Sweet-sounding Gridman to see retreating detectives (7)

8 Turn blue over bad end in treacherous Andes (6)

10 Grading takes well the sort of grass that grows fast (4-9)

15 This stays the execution (8)

16 Foreign newspaper heads splashed summer item (8)

18 A number said to support a front runner (7)

20 Set a camp-bed by the lake (7)

21 Beat and butcher bad Greek character (6)

22 Padre dressed by right cloth dealer (6)

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