The Hindu Crossword 7099

Across

 1 Play the market: after splendid start, embezzle money (9)
 5 What one is to one's little brother (5)
 8 Disrespectful little devil with universal effect (8)
 9 China for an evening service (3,3)
11 He dislikes company, a person between two sides (5)
12 Share for everyone reportedly intended to include book (9)
13 Medico wastes year - sad (6)
14 Left in action? Sent out of the country (8)
16 Kind of mirror for a backward look (4-4)
18 Vital fluid for every soldier who digs (6)
22 With two leaves, boil tea if change is needed (9)
23 The nostrils are between two opposite points (5)
24 Everyone, for example, easily begins to make an accusation (6)
25 One thus drinks, say, atoms with the same atomic number (8)
26 A creature with dash died (5)
27 What the author sometimes does to his book in a decade is ruined, taking little time (9)

Down

 1 Accomplished Pole murdered (7)
 2 One-time British money, say, for payment (7)
 3 Lacking the advantages of others directly below, was nosy about wicked German (15)
 4 Yearly plant (6)
 5 Choose or put up powerfully attractive type of wave of current passing round iron (15)
 6 Head of department is dispatched in difference of opinion (7)
 7 Alternated with doter at new spell (7)
10 Fast warships (5)
15 Part of flower for a favourite boy (5)
16 Protection for lungs and heart improvised from rice bag (7)
17 Boy twice seen with a plant (lucerne) (7)
19 A low wall section to enclose monkey (7)
20 Stands firm against sisters dancing (7)
21 Hired student driver and relaxed (6)

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