No 9959, Tuesday 28 Sep 10, Sankalak

ACROSS
1   - In company, male, very emotional, is inclined to pity (13) - {CO}{M}{PASSIONATE}
10 - Sweet smell of a grain in the land of perfumes (9) - {FR{A}{GR}ANCE}
11 - Seductive women against accepting current measure (5) - {V}{AMPS}
12 - Flier lacking top growth in America? (5) - EAGLE [CD] And you thought they were bald? Bald means white!

13 - See you later....! (9) - ALLIGATOR [CD]
14 - Become fashionable, go to bed (4,2) - {TURN} {IN}
16 - Semiprecious stone is a barrier (5) - {A}{GATE}

19 - Unhealthily thin creature, a bit glum, bends back (5) - {SCRA}{G} <-
20 - Very large number starting descent into port (6) - {OS}{TEN}{D}
25 - Fliers use it to make a change about duration (9) - {AL{TIME}TER}

26 - Old official seen here before evening (5) - {RE}{EVE}
27 - Cause of trouble — a soprano in treatment (5) - {CUR{S}E}
28 - He introduces new ideas when, in the hostelry, eggs rot somehow (9) - {INN}{OVA}{TOR}

29 - See the church cat go crazy for some food (7,6) - {COTTAGE (C)H(E)ESE}*

DOWN
2   - In the outskirts of Ooty, forest official finds a greenhouse (8) - {Oo{RANGER}tY}
3   - It holds rupees perhaps, with a bit taken off (5) - PURSEe*
4   - Browning on exposure to big star (6) - SUNTAN [CD] With due respects to all the ladies here

5   - Beliefs that the French yogi, on demand, spells out (8) - IDEOLOGY*(le+yogi+do)
6   - The worth of stock that one computer magnate manages to sail with (9) - {NAV}{I}{GATES}
7   - Entices casual worker with hollow truths (6) - {TEMP}{TruthS}
8   - There has to be a cause for it (6) - EFFECT [CD]

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9   - Take over by force when you surprise one inside (5) - USURP [T]
15 - Trendy as well as corrupt, he holds the post (9) - {IN}{CUM}{BENT}
17 - Wielding the willow, getting in fifty and fighting (8) - {BATT{L}ING}

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18 - Notes about ten different reminders of the past (8) - {MEM{ENT*}OS}
21 - “If your morals make you __, depend on it, they are wrong” (R.L.Stevenson (6) - DREARY [E]
22 - Music of the month (5) - MARCH [DD]
23 - In which one hears more than one speaker (6) - STEREO [CD]
24 - Aiming at peace can inspire niceness to an extent (6) - IRENIC [T] New word for me
26 - Light entertainment is always backed around university (5) - {REV{U}E<-}

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