Miscellaneous - Crossword

The Hindu Crossword No. 9311

Across

 1 Therapy that is impossible in a blackout? (5,9)

 8 Little creature with a modish wing (6)

 9 See a sign unfurled by one to whom property has been transferred (8)

11 In the Middle East, it had penalties modified (9)

12 A portion of a small mammal (5)

13 What a footballer hates to see — a socialist joker? (3,4)

15 Prominent stranger, in a way (7)

17 Stump that is misused as an encouragement (7)

19 He gives company to the flier (2-5)

21 U.S. prosecutor omitted from CV of living organisms (5)

23 Degradation of a low-level accommodation (9)

25 Power cut that expels a chess player perhaps (8)

26 Love commercial dirt! (6)

27 Bone disease that Irish tattooers develop (14)

Down

 1 Team leader but a small fish (7)

 2 Bird, one in a group of grouse, lark etc. (5)

 3 Get (the bike) going (4-5)

 4 Bachelor of surgery involved in various cases of pus collection (7)

 5 Power flows through them in restructured, new Siam (5)

 6 Peerless example that is plainer on reform (9)

 7 Umpire, entering wager, is miserable (6)

10 A gentle sort (4)

14 Maid’s plot upset by foreign service officials (9)

16 He uses his eyes to comprehend what others say (3-6)

17 Consume drink with one doctor and one engineer (6)

18 Paula’s caught cracking a shoulder bone (7)

19 Persuade with some colas, say (4)

20 In them your clothes are torn (7)

22 An important joint for some Bohemian kleptomaniacs (5)

24 A proclamation like what Asoka left on stone (5)

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