The Hindu Xword 8516 Solutions(first go...highly partial)

Across

1 You don't have to pay for them (8)FREEBIES

5 Classified one publicising what's required (4-2)

9 Siva, Eve proves to be deliberately vague (7)EVASIVE

10 Promotes acts of kindness (7)

11 Based on observation: I impel car haphazardly (9)EMPIRICAL

12 Central leader Hari hesitant to control the discussion (5)CHAIR

13 Information Bureau earlier found the goat (4)IBEX

14 Find out when it's sure (9)ASCERTAIN

17 No-good discount surrounding the expert (9)

19 Examine hastily some of his canons (4)SCAN

23 Tsar in trouble accepts superior rule in Sanskrit (5)

24 Bob thrashing Bacon, I see (9)

25 In public transport copper enters, causing a nightmare (7)

26 Say again, the learned has lost his head (7)ITERATE

27 Agreeable persons? (3-3)YES-MEN

28 Being light-minded, turn over and breathe noisily (8)

Down

1 Maddened if Centre is in disarray (8)FRENETIC

2 Model formerly rich? (7)EXAMPLE

3 Cunning Berry traps one set with brambles (6)

4 Do they tell you how to do work-outs in the gym? (8,5)EXERCISE

6 Campaigner has publicity material about village officer and girl (8)ADVOCATE

7 Disaster from aunts: I'm shocked (7)TSUNAMI

8 Catch sight of some brides crying (6)

10 What the bird did when it ate was suitable (6,3,4)

15 Make an introduction to part of the constitution, perhaps (8)

16 At this place book is natural (8)

18 Tempts tens to swarm around diamonds (7)

20 Can the Indian industrialist provide a harmonious composition? (7)

21 Become inflexible, Boss, if youth is in hiding (6)

22 Successfully retired? (6)