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The Hindu Crossword 8700

Across

1 Dynamic and enlightened (7,7)

9 Requests the worker to be agreeable (8)

10 As a fool I do it badly (5)

12 Glassy gemstone displaying variegated colours (4)

13 Opt so to lean down precariously (5)

14 Anything disagreeable which has to be endured (4)

17 Man who looks on him as a judge (8)

18 Movement in slow time (6)

20 Delicious beverage of the gods (6)

22 Short poem, especially pastoral dialogue (7)

25 Kids favour such a drop in a police force (4)

26 Prepared engineer another day (5)

27 Scheme of arrangement (4)

30 Got an order to make an Indian vehicle (5)

31 Viscous liquid from an upright unbranched tree (7)

32 Biased and preferential (14)

Down

2 About 50 with facility to set free (7)

3 Service association comes up from a long way (4)

4 They are enlisted by conscription (8)

5 Freedom of choice (6)

6 Contract with needles (4)

7 Succeeding in getting hold of a person (7)

8 Without definite occupation (2,1,5,3)

11 Like a proficient actor's description of a curate's egg (4,2,5)

15 Commonly observed or done (5)

16 I have old-fashioned objects of love (5)

19 Place to resettle when idle (3,5)

21 I burst into song before I drink the wine (7)

23 We would not have a telescope but for him (7)

24 Ancient Greek oracle (6)

28 Soft mineral in metal container (4)

29 Unnatural heavy sleep (4)

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