Solution to THC # 9009

Across

 1 Without adequate advance intimation to others I can’t reorganise (2,5,6) AT SHORT NOTICE {TO OTHERS I CAN'T}

10 Excess shown by society beau about PIL (5- 4) SPILL-OVER {S (society) + PIL + LOVER (beau)}

11 Creature from Akola resettled (5) KOALA {AKOLA}

12 Lack of belief as once shown by an apostle (5) DOUBT {Direct}

13 Rich stage build-up where some European legislators met (9) REICHSTAG {RICH STAGE}

14 The swagger of a mad pacer around the north (6) PRANCE {PACER + N (North)}

16 Some writing from South Africa shortened, reportedly (5) ASSAY {SA + SAY (reportedly)}

19 All right to back church, one in a Kerala location (5) KOCHI {OK backed + CH (church) + I (one)}

20 By the way, turn back and go for a leisurely walk (6) STROLL {ST (short for Street) + ROLL (trun back)}

25 One who expounds that the poor exist miserably (9) EXPOSITOR {POOR EXIST}

26 Extortionate swimmer(5) SHARK {Direct}

27 Germ cell with a small orifice (5) SPORE {S (small) + PORE (orifice)}

28 Here’s Lara involved in a practice session (9) REHEARSAL {HERE'S LARA}

29 Imposition of trade barriers to defend mission straying heartlessly (13) PROTECTIONISM {PROTECT (defend) + MISION (heartless MISSION = MISSION - S)}

Down

 2 Court holding a test about hairstyle (7) TRIBUNAL {TRI (BUN) AL}

 3 Man, one whose wife turned into a salt pillar, was a serf (5) HELOT {HE (man) + LOT (whose wife turned into a salt pillar)} [Reference]

 4 Go back to an old state in a severe vertiginous condition (6) REVERT {SEVE(RE VERT)IGINOUS}

 5 Plants producing raisins suffer with cold (8) NARCISSI {RAISINS + C (cold)}

 6 Acquire and listen to the first of tapes and be encouraged (4,5) TAKE HEART {TAKE (Acquire) + HEAR (listen) T (first of Tapes)}

 7 Designing a floating platform between the limits of Cauvery (6) CRAFTY {C (RAFT) Y}

 8 Exhausted by American dupe’s wiliness (4,2) USED UP {US + DUPE}

 9 A boat that could push through clumsily (5) BARGE {Double}

15 Wrinkles caused a bird’s daring action, reportedly (5,4) CROW'S FEET {Double}

17 Eloquence caused when rich ore containing a bit of tungsten is dug out (8) RHETORIC {RICH ORE T (a bit of Tungsten)}

18 A syrup for most girls, no stone in it (8) MOLASSES {MOST LASSES (girls) - ST (stone)}

21 Kinetic energy in a plant, presumably (6) LIKELY {LI (KE) LY}

22 A fine meal in café’s a stone’s throw away (5) FEAST {CA(FE A ST)ONE'S}

23 Commotion is a state before a big noise (6) UPROAR {UP (a state) ROAR (a big noise)}

24 Old script designed by Bhima? Right (6) BRAHMI {BHIMA + R (right)}

26 Mass of eggs for a small man on board (5) SPAWN {S (small) + PAWN (man on chess board)}