THE HINDU CROSSWORD CORNER: No.10688, Tuesday 5 Feb 13, Sunnet

THE HINDU CROSSWORD CORNER

No.10688, Tuesday 5 Feb 13, Sunnet Feb 5th 2013, 03:00 Entertaining puzzle that has everything under the sunnet alphabet ACROSS 1 Accept counter boy's carriage (6) SUBMIT (TIM + BUS)<= 4 Very quiet priest boarding Buddhist sect's transport (8) ZEPPELIN (PP + ELI inside ZEN) 10 Recover most of a serving dish after a bowler returned (9) RECAPTURE (TUREen after PACER<=) Personally I would have preferred "more than half" instead of "most" 11 Moved back and forth and twice relinquished some independence (5) WAVED (WAiVED) Not sure what is the role of "twice" 12 Prior to baby nearly convulsing (5) ABBOT (TO BABy)* 13 Blooms on the edge right inside air station's summit (9) PRIMROSES (RIM + R inside POSE + S) 14 Observe a clerestory (7) MONITOR (DD) Clerestory is more of a window? 16 Gather overlooking a valley (4) GLEN (GLEaN) 19 A cross beam picture (1-3) X-RAY (X + RAY) 21 Dress to arrive outside the centre of a masquerade (7) COSTUME (COME outside poSTUre?) 24 Vocal slander needed to check malignancy perhaps (4,5) ORAL, SMEAR (ORAL + SMEAR) 25 Spirit of a four-leaf ritual (5)  AFRIT (T) 26 Ethnic Chinese group circle India's capital (5) HANOI (HAN + O + I) 27 An engineer, not completely taken in by an attack from the East, can become invisible (9) DISAPPEAR (SAPPEr inside RAID<=) 28 Ducks for Communist leaders (8) REDHEADS (RED + HEADS) 29 One in France accustomed to be fresh (6) UNUSED (UN + USED) DOWN 1 Cutting words playing havoc with Sam's scar (8) SARCASMS (SAMS SCAR)* 2 Last ivory support (8) BACKBONE (BACK + BONE) 3 Feed at home before a throw (5) INPUT (IN + PUT) 5 Equalising // time (7) EVENING (DD) 6 Feeble // without electricity? (9) POWERLESS (DD) 7 Generous menial beginning to go out (6) LAVISH (sLAVISH) 8 Does he prefer to be in a natural state everywhere? (6) NUDIST (CD) 9 A horse sometimes used to complete a circuit (6) JUMPER (DD) 15 A wicket's spin characteristic, say (9) TURNSTILE (TURN + ~STYLE) 17 Divides // houses (8) QUARTERS (DD) 18 Risked against teeth rotation (8) VENTURED (V + DENTURE with D moving to end) Teeth = Dentures and tooth = Denture? 20 Gave in and stopped the ball with your head instead of foot (7) YIELDED (FIELDED with Y for F) 21 Brief, half casual bow (6) CURTSY (CURT + eaSY) 22 Undefiled woman sheltered by Homer (6) KOSHER (SHE inside KOR) 23 Spread out semi-circularly for some junior scouts, going North, following an admirer (6) FANNED (FAN + DEN<=) 25 Tree like enclosure (5) ASPEN (AS + PEN) LINK TO SOLUTION

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