The Hindu Crossword 7183

Across

 1 Provide information perhaps to decorate your apartment (7)
 5 Decorative chain of flowers made of stone (7)
 9 Has his water supply (3,4)
10 Swearing like a trooper! (7)
11 Opens up and tells (9)
12 No tea for the simple native (5)
13 Northerner was choked to death when he supped (5)
15 Not severe enough to end in guilt when I quit (9)
17 A pioneer in the field of flying early types (4,5)
19 He may often go on a wild goose chase! (5)
22 Excuse put forward for not being there (5)
23 Bull is quite out of place here, of course (5,4)
25 The kind of language used by the trooper... (7)
26 ... could be immoderate and out of context, remember! (7)
27 Beg for better rent to eat (7)
28 Sailors about to get things to shoot at (7)


Down

 1 What happens to some of our roads when there's a heavy downpour (7)
 2 Presses the bell to announce one's arrival (5,2)
 3 I buy and sell to perfection (5)
 4 Seems like what the cashier does. Steady now! (9)
 5 Making them at someone may land you in front of the music! (5)
 6 Give your gland a rest or else you'll get stifled! (9)
 7 An opening that's nothing if rice is kept in a disorderly way (7)
 8 Nothing need be done to show it's uncared for (7)
14 Matching twin (9)
16 Damage, harm, and create mischief by men in it? (9)
17 A vagrant the French stamp on (7)
18 Leave quietly, wearing only a bra and panties? (4,3)
20 In the event, competition should bring out the best in him (7)
21 Former journalist in a hurry (7)
23 There's hundred remaining to be split (5)
24 Albert meets a sailor in church to make amendment, we hear (5)

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