The Hindu Xword 8662 Solutions

Across

1 Communication device to help clone production (9)CELLPHONE

5 Constable, artist, finds source of oil (5)COPRA

8 Substance initially derived from carbon, oxygen, barium, antimony, lithium and titanium (6)COBALT

9 Bird left gazing all around (8)

11 Instrument to evoke key spirit (4)DRUM

12 A mean fellow, he takes cap around (10)CHEAPSTAKE

14 Language quirk of old African leader getting order (5)IDIOM

15 Nearest interpretation of seriousness (7)EARNEST

16 Muse of song (7)

17 One doing needlework in a drain (5)SEWER

19 With which to shoot American church building (4,6)....CAMERA

20 Blackleg's cover for injury (4)SCAB

22 Packing for legal action perhaps (8)

23 Make a cut in a trendy measure, say (6)INCISE

24 Fear of those gone carrying the beginning of rubella (5)

25 A handspring, acrobatic revolution! (9)

Down

1 Insect with some thoracic adaptation (6)CICADA

2 Mutinous Brit leaves union in which much of the costs are due to wages (6-9)LABOUR INCENTIVE

3 A tree on hand (4)PALM

4 The kind of perception that a psychic could have (12)EXTRASENSORY

5 Bottle openers seal prison officials (10)CORKSCREWS

6 What a civil surgeon may be permitted to do is not the general routine (7,8)PRIVATE PRACTICE

7 Add to Aunt Meg's discomfiture (7)AUGMENT

10 Performance by a small orchestra in summer: Bachic variation (7,5)CHAMBER MUSIC

13 Flavouring agent for an ersatz drink (6,4)

16 Forgiven and released from duty (7)

18 Sailors lie back and come down by rope (6)ABSEIL

21 Fall in winter reveals love in three directions (4) SNOW

The Hindu Xword 8654 Solutions (partial)

Across

1 Noisy class with a loving disposition (9)

6 A store of French cannabis (5)

9 Tree for a small enclosure (5)

10 Bon voyage, Veronica (9)

11 Fabricated tapestries can be revealing (5,5)STRIP TEASE

12 Running together shortly (4)

14 Brief jottings taken at precise times (7)

15 Recognises the warnings issued (7)

17 Goes along with dope, sent inside (7)DOPE

19 Flinches from conservative singer uneasily (7)CRINGES

20 Anyway Pedro has no right to become an idiot (4)

22 Partner due to be agitated and smitten (10)ENRAPTURED

25 Puts down a sporting group, traditionally (9)

26 Story of Athenian culture (5)

27 Controlled the cattle? (5)

28 Disturbance always caused by a fraudster (9)

Down

1 Charles hungry in the mess (5)

2 Partisans can be such trying people (9)ASPIRANTS

3 Mention `pot' could be all powerful (10)OMNIPOTENT

4 Pieces of chicken ordered by the dozen? (7)

5 Restore, after denying to son, capital cover (7)

6 An art movement invented by childish parent (4)

7 An exceptional type having sense of duty towards benefactors (5)

8 Projects info and entertainment over a distance (9)

13 Rigorous trial (6,4)LITMUS TEST

14 Are mended — put right — when twisted (9)MEANDERED

16 Weed — taking care, get it dealt with (9)

18 South east military alliance right in Congress (7)

19 An annual race on Epsom Downs (7)

21 One in a game could result in one being game (5)

23 Month end alternative for stage embellishments (5)DECOR

24 To inspire fear, monster may therefore return (4) ERGO