Hindu Xword 8398

Across

1 Non-flying personnel at the airbase who crushed the employees (6,5)GROUND STAFF

9 What a player may need between takes (5,2)TOUCH UP

10 Mind that child! (4-3)BABY-SIT

11 Measuring instrument that satisfied the queen (5)METER

12 Mental powers of client let loose (9)INTELLECT

13 Nobleman appearing in a biyearly event (4)EARL

15 Provide costly coat of animal with broken shin (7)FURNISH

19 A deposit lacking finish, odd and fatty (7)ADIPOSE

20 Measure of a popular honour (4)ANNA

24 An extraction of coffee e.g. to con coed: it bubbles (9)DECOCTION

25 Valuable property returned by girl (5)ASSET

27 Greek character showing little love? (7)OMICRON

28 Porridge material brings excitement to a male (7)OATMEAL

29 He often refers to famous people to promenade power comically (4-7)NAME-DROPPER

Down

1 Sound like a pig (5)GRUNT

2 The awful throes of the remaining ones (6)OTHERS

3 Piece of material with which to criticise backward members of family (6)NAPKIN

4 Destructive person but a sore sufferer (8)SABOTEUR

5 Rescue vehicle leaving church, takes time moving from place to place (8)AMBULANT

6 A child, not by birth, has a nose for street trouble (6,3)FOSTER SON

7 Baffled by one way to get out (7)STUMPED

8 Condition of a small gallery (5)STATE

14 Dealing with a fracture cured it: no surprise (9)REDUCTION

16 Rainbow for one (8)SPECTRUM

17 Given a task as design developer (8)ASSIGNED

18 The kind of diplomacy requiring movement from country to country (7)TACTILE

21 A poem about ancient Greek theatre (5)ODEON

22 Entirely or partly in a conjoint otological study (2,4)IN TOTO

23 Computer that could eliminate a port within (6)LAPTOP

26 The girl with a right to cut through (5) SHEAR