Solutions to THC # 8908

Across

1 Healthy and robust worker consumes beer, earthy variety (4,3,6) HALE AND HEARTY

10 Is it right, Ravana being shot in a festival? (9) NAVARATRI

11 Instrument packed in a parcel lovingly (5) CELLO

12 Stream of water that goes to the root in dentistry (5) CANAL

13 Surrogate clergyman promises to pay back (9) VICARIOUS

14 Talker's faculty (6) SPEECH

16 Instruct an artist in metal (5) TRAIN

19 A personification of riches and greed, false god is decapitated by Theban god (5) AMMON

20 Pedestrian way of progress (2,4) ON FOOT

25 His arrival was overdue (4,5) LATE COMER

26 Market place for the nearly indolent in Pennsylvania (5) PLAZA

27 Series of tones that could be major minor (5) SCALE

28 Ten niggle furiously, being careless (9) NEGLIGENT

29 Strengthening control in order to bond building material (13) REINFORCEMENT

Down

2 Being ahead in knowledge, danced a victory dance (8) ADVANCED

3 Sign up to play a part in a proven role (5) ENROL

4 Citizen about whose return Hardy wrote (6) NATIVE

5 The kind of product for top dressing? (8) HAIRCARE

6 Instrument with which to do in a croc perhaps (9) ACCORDION

7 Fat time to give permission (6) TALLOW

8 Things to eat between meals? They are new, in bags (6) SNACKS

9 Seaside article is covered in the price (5) COAST

15 Arrive without difficulties to make an admission (4,5) COME CLEAN

17 Military person who has control over love (8) COMMANDO

18 Healthy food for building bone, say, containing a bit of ammonium (4,4) SOYA BEAN

21 They are proposed when drinking for health (6) TOASTS

22 Cut made with a small whip (5) SLASH

23 Attack from the air, right up in secure setting (6) STRAFE

24 Endless credit envelops poor newspaper — unfortunate (6) TRAGIC

26 Teacher turned up in the afternoon with a light refractor (5) PRISM