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The Hindu Crossword 9696

Across

 1 Descriptive of a harassed housewife who might cook this way (5,8)

 8 May arouse and have a good time (7)

 9 Girl ran to Ted to have her scholarship bestowed (7)

11 Football team (6)

13 Lear goes round the North as if tanned (8)

15 Caught her making one effort to vomit (5)

16 Suffer humiliation if wrongly attired (3,4)

18 Cause conservative accountant to bring charge of an offence (7)

19 Sale of right kind that emitted coherent light (5)

21 Incurred indebtedness which may be exaggerated (8)

23 Come to an end of a progression (6)

25 Ben to lead in creating opportunity for people to operate software (7)

26 Dad takes over to get a quiet formal sanction (7)

28 One who should be aware of the pressure we are under (13)

Down

 2 Bet Ron can make him come out (7)

 3 I turn out to look at this large Australian bird (3)

 4 The appeal of quiet meadowland (4)

 5 They can always whip up some food (3,7)

 6 Sudden action to begin work (5)

 7 Monastery bugle call? (7)

 8 One more makes a soldier a sailor (6,5)

10 Consumptive affair with ball, perhaps — even entertainment (6,5)

12 The in-charge set up a system of moral values (5)

14 The paper seller never downs rum (4,6)

17 An opening for intake (5)

18 The mean state comes with maturity (7)

20 They are often cast as followers (7)

22 Fifty-five in river dig (5)

24 Defence post (4)

27 Footprint of a wild animal (3)

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