The Hindu : The Hindu Crossword No. 7585

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Saturday, Feb 01, 2003

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The Hindu Crossword No. 7585

Across
 1 Usual ways of the government department levying duties (7)
 5 Solicit a small amount —  next to nothing 
   —  on the street (6)
 9 Make public a racket (5)
10 Got tit for tit (9)
11 Part of a winter cap (7)
12 A person-to-person deal over? OK! (7)
13 Don't open stylish baby's underpants (5)
14 Visit lion organised for the musician (9)
16 Talk about the princess taking the southern route (9)
19 Judicial assertions back detectives and Territorial Army (5)
21 Chose by a late start but chose (7)
23 Screen from view duel display after half-a-second (7)
24 Is that when you go pub-crawling? (5,4)
25 Assessed every other breast-feed (5)
26 Criticised the French letter giving assent to Democrat (6)
27 One who gives a good rubbing-down (7)
Down
 1 It's the inmates in these who await death penalty (9,5)
 2 Horse riders would always put their foot in it (7)
 3 Covering such as snow here and there in a J & K 
   province, we hear (7)
 4 Dislodged Peer loves to stay a night with host  (5,4)
 5 City in which the maniac cracksman was tracked down (5)
 6 Chair Pa converted into a light bedstead (7)
 7 Italian gentlemen (7)
 8 It shows the days leading to Christmas (6,8)
15 Lazy Poles ever toss and turn beyond sunrise (9)
17 Letter pattern satisfies clients (7)
18 Do better than someone else in open-air theatre (7)
19 It is proper to observe this in society (7)
20 Soda or potash? (7)
22 Might have been cut before it was ...  (5)

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