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The Hindu Crossword 9677

Across

 1 Uncommunicative and curt, ain’t flexible (8)

 5 Entertainer’s admission of being a drug-taker (6)

10, 21 Dn. Complete freedom of action, not only for the French (5,7)

11 Shop assistant who may sell good sari collection (9)

12 Peasants in the middle-east knock down a bird, pocketing note (9)

13 Code-maker who dropped a note from a feeling of guilt (5)

14 Security device for people directing movement of planes in the outskirts of Loughborough (5)

16 Would a professional decline into a pathological condition? (8)

18 As GM, I do act oddly opinionated (8)

20 Where in Africa can one get an excellent sweet round roll in return (5)

24 Be full of them to be lively (5)

25 A French duke in the custody of socialist worker? Not needed (9)

27 Venus in Athens? (9)

28 A look at a part of the ship, originally oval (5)

29 Label going with package reconstructs 28 ahead of time (6)

30 Runners wait for their orders (8)

Down

 1 What a diplomat has to be? (7)

 2 Simple band, round thing, beginning to tarnish (7)

 3 An enclosing sheath that he cares to conceal (5)

 4 Fungus formed round points gives a reddish-brown colour (6)

 6 Smell, fresh lemon or honeydew (4,5)

 7 The rider puts his foot in it (7)

 8 Lever that is designed to take the burden off (7)

 9 Kind of meeting open to all or only half the people? Never! (7)

15 One has to be late to get one’s name on it (9)

17 Tumour, bifid or otherwise (7)

18 Poor reverted worker was an expert (3,4)

19 Lucid symbolic diagram gets one cent (7)

21 See 10 Ac.

22 They write to the French over a short spell (7)

23 First appearance at a commercial opening (6)

26 The lowest point in a broken drain (5)

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