Hindu Xword 8399

Across

1 Wooden cylinder to flatten pastry or hit someone on the head (7,3)ROLLING PIN

6 Medicine to make one better (4)DRUG

9 State of being extremely unpleasant (7)SQUALOR

10 Imaginary circle cutting the earth in the middle (7)EQUATOR

12 Minute organisms carrying diseased germs (8)MICROBES

13 Animal capable of laughing fiendishly (5)HYENA

15 Shine on the synthetic fibre (5)RAYON

17 Such a pair of glasses is held to improve sight (9)LORGNETTE

19 Shark followed by cod for the infant (9)NURSELING

21 Something charged as additional (5)EXTRA

23 Roam in search of prey (5)PROWL

24 Laid claim to a dessert recipe (8)ASSERTED

27 After a fashion trains a mechanic (7)ARTISAN

28 Guilty conscience (7)REMORSE

29 So to speak time belongs to us (4)OURS

30 Heavenly body expert (10)ASTRONOMER

Down

1 It is uphill going getting a little more money (4)RISE

2 Ills you get are disgustingly bad (7)LOUSILY

3 Riled about the useless person (5)IDLER

4 A dress set down to be a woman's loose blouse (9)GARIBALDI

5 Aids the vague beliefs in the mind (5)IDEAS

7 Shout once more and then go back (7)RETREAT

8 Put waste here (7,3)GARBAGE CAN

11 Confound to drive out of one's mind (7)UNHINGE

14 Large majestic stringed instrument (5,5)GRAND PIANO

16 Leaves of fir or pine (7)NEEDLES

18 Official recorder in a university (9)REGISTRAR

20 That conceited bird (7)ROOSTER

22 Proposition which can be demonstrated by argument (7)THEOREM

24 But Charley's wasn't necessarily cracked nuts (5)(?)

25 Type of dilapidated manor (5)ROMAN

26 Look closely at the aristocrat (4)PEER