Solutions to THC # 8949

Across

 1 Difficult-to-imitate text on paper (4,4) HARD COPY

 5 Strategic plan to perform in the grip of a nervous complaint (6) TACTIC

10 Grim horse goes around the taxi (7) MACABRE

11 At home, take originally Indian drink - that’s tasteless (7) INSIPID

12 Required the newspaperman to be in want (6) NEEDED

13 Sell mini letters of a slender shape (8) SLIMLINE

15 Sat reluctantly with the king for the assignment (4) TASK

16 Does it hold babies to be delivered? (6,4) STORKS NEST

18 Short nomad makes vague guess (6,4) RANDOM SHOT

20 Account given by yours truly reaches its pinnacle (4) ACME

23 Race in which tyres can burst (8) ANCESTRY

24 Possibly cares about a Shakespearean character (6) CAESAR

26 On hand, as a shop should be (2,5) IN STOCK

27 Litmus sprayed around one may arouse action (7) STIMULI

28 Do mean turn and it will be lamented (6) MOANED

29 Adversaries work with questions (8) OPPOSERS

Down

 1 Maharani’s unit I’m revamping to provide benevolence (15) HUMANITARIANISM

 2 Mafia activities produce terrible rows (7) RACKETS

 3 First to call on cleverer person who sends messages (6) CABLER

 4 Beg audibly for a victim (4) PREY

 6 See a mass settlement of people (8) ASSAMESE

 7 Work in Intel processing is first-class (7) TOPLINE

 8 Think hard to solve this clue! (6,3,6) CUDGEL THE BRAINS

 9 Where you may deposit your letters for clearance (6-3) PILLAR BOX

14 In one go 60 minutes after 12? (2,1,6) AT A STROKE

17 Doctor on ship got up to get the flower (4,4) MOSS ROSE

19 22 ran around one city (7) NICOSIA

21 As worn for a fancy dress competition (7) COSTUME

22 Gaming house where a coin’s tossed (6) CASINO

25 Please reply! Some letters would do! (1,1,1,1) RSVP

Solutions to THC # 8933

Across

1 Noblemen's circle, a club with people of similar age (4,5) PEER GROUP

5 Body part that is a complex instrument (5) ORGAN

8 In Emergency Room, sexton is treated with muscle (8) EXTENSOR

9 Stem the flow of delirious chants (6) STANCH

11 More certain to be a headless Shylock (5) SURER

12 Poets with push arranged to open a business establishment (3,2,4) SET UP SHOP

13 Works Department in valley may lag behind (6) DAWDLE

14 She brings fragrance to life (8) PERFUMER

16 Revolutionary Nazi group chap, a pawn maybe (8) CHESSMAN

18 One who runs after another drink after one ... (6) CHASER

22 ... unravels one puzzle prevailing everywhere (9) UNIVERSAL

23 Cause injury, to body or mind (5) WOUND

24 Protean creature, could be a moa perhaps (6) AMOEBA

25 The ICU tried desperately for a drug (8) DIURETIC

26 Soldier's target (5) ENEMY

27 Vendetta that dismayed double of daughter (5,4) BLOOD FEUD

Down

1 First of palaces, rented, gave satisfaction (7) PLEASED

2 Dine on cold deer, say, and be forced to do something humiliating (3,4) EAT CROW

3 International deliberative body badly shot? Blame greasy lens (7,8) GENERAL ASSEMBLY

4 He plays an instrument in French wood mentioned in book (6) OBOIST

5 Elated, like Tenzing Norgay must have been once (2,3,2,3,5) ON TOP OF THE WORLD

6 Material with spirit — good meat (7) GINGHAM

7 One not expected to be successful in cooking poor hen (2-5) NO-HOPER

10 Parent failing to start is different (5) OTHER

15 A flower that is found in time (5) DAISY

16 Guts revealed, yours and mine, behind bars (7) CRUSADE

17 Typical example of Poe's work with time (7) EPITOME

19 It goes back and forth carrying people (7) SHUTTLE

20 Socialist, reportedly exploited, lost weight (7) REDUCED

21 One lacking pigment is out on bail (6) ALBINO