Hindu Xword 8206

Across

1 Identify body odour to bring about beneficial impact from make-believe medicine (7,6)

10 Timid pose is contrived and taken full advantage of (9)OPTIMISED

11 Call on Pak. spies in old Mumbai station (5)VISIT

12 Irish cop is a bore in retrospect (5)

13 Luxury vehicle minus oil? Energy diverted (9)LIMOUSINE

14 Authority for travel, one sought after by aspiring politico (6)TICKET

16 Wet ground that is a cause for worry (5)MARSH(?)

19 Greet flying bird (5)EGRET

20 Endure, Teddy! Rise! (4,2)BEAR UP

25 Officer to join a group with fellow worker (9)COLLEAGUE

26 Young swimmer, a little eel verily (5)ELVER(?)

27 Send back the watch (5)REMIT

28 Misra shops around for pithy maxims (9)APHORISMS

29 Civil defence official who gets busy when the siren goes (3-4, 6)

Down

2 Ability to read and write English with clarity perhaps (8)LITERACY

3 Mark gives pause to the reader (5)

4 Noisy activity ruined the French (6)TUSSLE(?)

5 Selene's lover, beautiful man, would deny Moin's dilemma (8)

6 The one fancied to win (9)

7 American agency traps fool with a plant (6)CASSIA

8 Acquired by corrupt means (6)

9 Article swallowed by queen — it benumbs (5)

15 Whisk, for example, good one for rousing game (9)EGGBEATER

17 Big haze drifting around the north in Libyan city (8)(??)

18 Ironsides saver climbed up a fissure here (8)CREVASSE

21 Fried food's top in taste for a pedant (6)PURIST

22 Number with which to make a hit (5)SCORE

23 Old students distributing UN mail (6)ALUMNI

24 Asinine vocal expression (6)

26 To lose head in panic is a mistake (5) ERROR