KKK has managed to say Modi (albeit Lalit) and Rambo (albeit Stallone) in the same breath ! Lots of living persons in the puzzle: Lalit Modi, Sly Stallone, Viru Sehwag Stumped by 15aACROSS
1 Suspension of race when sea gives way to land initially (6) SLURRY (SCURRY -C+L)
4 Crooks, initially violent, restrained by medicines (6) CURVES (CURES around V)
9 Indian son still under trial? (4) BETA 2
My heart went Dhak, Dhak, at remembering this film 10 Mow around pattern
supposedly made by aliens (4,6)
CROP CIRCLE (CHARADE, mow a round pattern).
Can also be considered a CD
11 'I'm leaving the platoon,' said the temporary ruler (6) REGENT (REGimENT)
The Colonel may dispute the numbers of a regiment and a platoon ...
12
In a distinct manner of speech, fool holds some
lectures (8)
IDIOLECT (LEC inside IDIOT)
13 Compulsive shopping is a gross abomination lacking better taste initially (9) ONIOMANIA (AbOMINAtION)*
15 Bugs for stories about South Africa (5) -N-S-
16 Rock pile to cover up missing alien (5) SCREE (SECRetE)
Incidentally 20d is used, but not referenced here
18 Patent his ludicrous view of equating all to God (9) PANTHEIST (PATENT HIS)*
22 Seasoned beef cut by force of one (8) PASTRAMI (PAST RAM 1)
23 Bother is not a nicety (6) NUANCE (NUisANCE)
25 Native sailor is archetypal (10) ABORIGINAL (AB ORIGINAL)
26 Identify half of them as being just the same (4) IDEM (I'D thEM)
27 Herb in the South East is the exact … (6) SESAME (SE SAME)
28 … purpose of the serpent's anger (6) ASPIRE (ASP IRE)
DOWN
1
Pub that the lady lived in (7)
SHEBEEN (SEE BEEN)
She been a bar girl ? May stay so, says Supreme Court
2 High-class guru of management (5) USAGE (U SAGE)
3 Cheese found in Cagliari cottage (7) RICOTTA (T)
5 Street kid's church in crumbling ruin (6) URCHIN (CH in RUIN*)
6
Hostility of
Sehwag's lens we hear (9)
VIRULENCE (VIRU ~LENS)
7 Singles out groups harbouring the French (7) SELECTS (LE in SECTS)
8
Changes Lalit's, say, obsessions about replacing the unknown (13)
MODIFICATIONS (MODI FI(
xC)ATIONS
14 Upsets public, partly laments… (9) OVERTURNS (OVERT moURNS)
17 … about Stallone's hero initially spoiling word games (7) CRAMBOS (C RAMBO S)
Uncle Pai's Amar Chitra Kathas really revolutionised Indian comics
20 Conceal in South Eastern Mediterranean island (7) SECRETE (SE CRETE)
21 Old Testament's Aramaic translation led to heated argument, flayed some nerves (6) TARGUM (ARGUMenT)*
24 Excuse for abilities failing to sever links? (5) ALIBI (ABILIties)*
It ain't me that was not there ...
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