Hindu Xword 8207

Across

1 Queensberry rules — what one expects in boxing, say (4,4)

5 A daughter chooses and takes as one's own (6)ADOPTS

10 Skin is cut off (5)

11 Handle some timber, dry timber used as tinder (9)

12 Fixed firmly in the mind by reading trendy novel (9)

13 Slow speech is crude on the outskirts of Dindigul (5)

14 The point of a broken thorn (5)

16 Good kind of diet or bad, containing clean bits (8)

18 Persistent queen is upset in Father Time's embrace (8)FREQUENT

20 Artist's aid for relaxation and a bit of leisure (5)EASEL

24 A lake could be a nesting place for an eagle (5)AERIE

25 Reversal in a fashionable account (9)INVERSION

27 Hunter of Moby Dick, say (9)

28 Magistrate in Venice hides daughter to avoid ... (5)EVADE(?)

29 ... meteor crumbling far away (6)REMOTE

30 Constituent pounds in stone (8)

Down

1 Resistance to movement loses right in falsehood (7)INERTIA(?)

2 A number to greet in ecstasy (7)INTEGER

3 Father accommodates a good man, providing something to eat (5)PASTA

4 Career in Bollywood (6)ACTING(?)

6 Surprisingly, they dared to remove the water (9)DEHYDRATE

7 Matter of fact professionals upset American spies (7)

8 Encumbered by having a seat put on (7)

9 Solar timekeeper (7)SUNDIAL

15 Hard river craft, a place to stay in (9)

17 The very old develop a nice tan (7)ANCIENT

18 In one's cap, it means achievement (7)FEATHER

19 A murder staged with a tympanum (7)EARDRUM

21 Con man's forte (7)

22 The light that the Pole learnt to repair (7)LANTERN

23 Exaggerate? A lover does it here (6)OVERDO

26 Navigator's aid found by girl in expensive car (5)