The Hindu Crossword No. 8492(partial)

Across

1 He tells of soldiers in opposition (9)

6 Snares for the travellers? (5)TRAPS(?)

9 Create a stir about a film (5)MOVIE

10 Where Galatea became involved with a male leader outside the youth centre (9)GUATEMALA

11 Able to communicate through the mind or by TV, say, using course that's pronouncedly icy (10)TELEPATHIC

12 Hit friends who come back (4)SLAP

14 Ian had nothing within the State he belonged (7)IDAHOAN

15 Lost old Indian copper coin (7)

17 Swears to new ways in combating attacks (7)

19 Canoodles without spectacles, as luminaries (7)CANDLES

20 Wingers can be awfully slow (4)OWLS

22 Talk about classy French wine is jingoistic (10)

25 In a trance, amazingly, describes the gold (4,5)NINE CARAT

26 Moderate sailor is consumed (5)ABATE

27 Rhubarb man put into rum (5)RHEUM

28 For him, business is picking up (9)

Down

1 Clock up mail (5)

2 A few in the Sicilian detachment are non-military (9)CIVILIANS

3 Move in processing men due to be laid off (10)

4 Make it more close-fitting (7)TIGHTEN

5 Prepared to die dear, in rebellion (7)READIED

6 Change of rite creates a row (4)TIER

7 Take advantage of gains (5)AVAIL

8 Impressed by Eastern direction flights (9)

13 Anaemic pet treated and set free (10)EMANCIPATE

14 Where naughty boys stood confronted by a dilemma (2,1,6)IN A CORNER

16 Fashionable young man, about teatime, to gad about (9)

18 Relating to a class of society where many perish in disorder (7)SPHERIC(?)

19 Dried up scrap of bread and salt to cur not right (7)

21 Clean cut is needed in surgery (5)LANCE

23 Not our Henry to tire in a muddle (5)THEIR

24 Managed to get his camera out of a swindle (4) SCAM