The Hindu Crossword 7065

Across

 1 Railway coach for tourist on a sober vacation, right? Wrong! (11,3) 
 8 First-class fish is sick (6)9Ox grasping a small girl to be more firm (8)
11 One tail soon wagging in quarantine (9)
12 Fear of the clock's sound perhaps (5)
13 Numerals in OT book (7)
15 One of five in south-eastern state initially gets spangles (7)
17 Husband and wife with little time for some poetry (7)
19 Coached a boy to cover fall (7)
21 Correct the last word with a note (5)
23 Little power with scope - a common truism (9)
25 Fortified place soaring right around (8)
26 Hari goes berserk in American state temple (6)
27 It offers tuition through correspondence when there is nothing to write: Oxford perhaps (4,10)

Down

 1 Zero allowance for speech (7)
 2 Broadside from a colossal volcanic eruption (5)
 3 Sound the chime to jog the memory (4,1,4)
 4 Means to find aims following international shortage (7)
 5 The Big Apple, for instance: a lake (5)  
 6 Giving life to a cartoon (9)
 7 Scrub around thousand bits of bread (6)
10 Fail to find an unmarried girl (4)
14 Rodent catcher with a long run on stage (5-4)
16 One who fulfils a requirement in the capacity of one sentenced to life accepting one... (9)
17 ...accusation and attack (6)
18 Violent blow causes phony to disintegrate (7)
19 Rip off in a state armament deal (4)
20 Daily record, covering Martian, concerning food (7)
22 Condescend, for example, to break into a racket (5)
24 Upper class soldier receives notice for new year day in Hyderabad (5)

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