The Hindu Xword 8515 Solutions

Across

1 Settlement to drag the Pole to the vessel (8)TOWNSHIP

6 Article I encountered is facing the wrong way (4)STEM

9 In accord, Democrat made up for deficiencies (6)ATONED

10 Revolutionary Lois mixes up earth's layer (3,4)TOP SOIL

13 Advances in music, perhaps (9)OVERTURES

14 Fund in Hindi translation (5)NIDHI

15 Shave two, we hear (4)PARE

16 Old boy mixes Natal oil pertaining to a religious offering (10)OBLATIONAL

19 So unlike a U or S? (3-7)NON-BENDING

21 Long narrative in the picaresque tradition (4)EPIC

24 Dislikes "Heats" being reviewed (5)HATES

25 Enthusiastic alien goes round well-laid-out exurban (9)EXUBERANT

26 Unfavourable publicity lines (7)ADVERSE

27 Out of the ear, something out of the ordinary (6)EXOTIC

28 Teacher goes back to the East to get higher (4)RISE

29 Pretend amulet is lost (8)SIMULATE

Down

2 What you won't be dressed in at home may last longer than others (7)OUTWEAR

3 This appeared at the end of the Eighties (6)NINETY

4 Heady bard recreates the city (9)HYDERABAD

5 Sampath sets out ways of life (5)PATHS

7 Crushed the wild rodent going around bottom of the ground (7)TRODDEN

8 There is no singularity here (12)MULTIPLICITY

11 Write `it may be applied to an eyebrow' (6)PENCIL

12 Become excited about what a balloon may do when released (2,2,2,3,3)GO UP IN THE AIR

17 Blast! Damn! Sue AA to a sickening degree (2,7)AD NAUSEAM

18 Smaller one who gives lease, we hear (6)LESSER

20 Vain set gobbles up indigenous people (7)NATIVES

22 A grand player? (7)PIANIST

23 Shrink back from wind again? (6)RECOIL

25 Were made in the south to hold water (5) EWERS