The Hindu Crossword 12403

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								9
10														10
										12		13
								15			16
										17
						19
				20
						22
	23	24						25
		26

Across

• 1. Put a circle around the date to get a promising container for a meat dish (5,7)
• 8. Check serving as a painful reminder? (7)
• 9. Speaker's rising to provide permission (6)
• 11. Dog breed from a Mexican state (9)
• 12. Cover with liquid in a search for underground water (5)
• 14. Buoyed up with strange delight after ingesting an inert gas (9)
• 16. Gave one's word after commencement and became frayed (4)
• 18. Money offered as a bribe for a cleansing agent (4)
• 19. Green site newly formed in an African national park (9)
• 21. Reliable alloy with aluminium in the wrong place (5)
• 22. Great sage sends back an unskilled actor with a revolutionary male aristocrat to Hawaii (9)
• 23. Humorous programme featuring some transit companies (6)
• 25. Neglected son sent out by the king in the evening time (3-4)
• 26. Gaining height after a blow from the right in a sport involving a glider (12)

Down

• 2. Dad genially made up with the heroine (7,4)
• 3. Pointless videos cut after morphing parts of a reproductive system (8)
• 4. One's happy tearing down some coin-operated communication devices (3-6)
• 5. Queen prone to emotional displays? (5)
• 6. Finish off the business executive with privileged information behind bars (6)
• 7. Arabian spirit with supernatural powers caught with a strong alcoholic drink (3)
• 8. Sly clerks at sea trap Edward in a foolhardy manner (10)
• 10. One counters brief disturbance after a pet doctor goes up to collect the Spanish box with moving pictures (10)
• 13. Obtained an envelope for the op-ed (soon to be rewritten) on a prize for being the last in a race (6,5)
• 15. Sad and barely able to speak without a candidate who might turn out to be a surprise winner (4,5)
• 17. Wrinkled Greek character turns up to press a journalist (8)
• 20. Cheap lace rolled up to conceal a mineral deposit (6)
• 22. Frenchman replacing the soft slip-on shoes gets a viral disease (5)
• 24. Mischievous fairy revealed in multiple endings of the Bengali film clip (3)