The Hindu Crossword 6960

Across

 1 It brings a sheen to tables and chairs with elegance (9,6)
 9 Encrusted with sugar, the container perished (7)
10 Opposed to information on a preventive substance (7)
11 GPs heat it to produce something to eat (9)
12 Support for art - no difficulty left (5)
13 Modest throw (3)
15 Be successful, overcome age and death (3,5)
18 Shooter's gag (8)
19 Carry on drama, omitting first of acts (3)
23 Bad habits found in some service sectors (5)
24 In a system of medicine, rodent is docked without any opposition (9)
26 Silly Lee, glad to be charged (7)
27 Prevailing trend in weather conditions (7)
28 Giddy feeling produced by brightness on top? (5-10)

Down

 1 Zeroed in, for taking a shot perhaps (7)
 2 One on the lam losing a path in the airport (6)
 3 Language of the rainbow, hard (5)
 4 Pat due for change: make him au courant (6)
 5 Formerly a collier, perhaps, he gives a test (8)
 6 Alert Noble! Halt changes (2,3,4)
 7 In playfulness, say, journalist is taken in (8)
 8 Worker was first to be managed (7)
14 Wisdom after the event is what a deer saw, maybe (9)
16 Dark member who does not join the strike (8)
17 Confuse a silly, feeble dud, taking a letter away (8)
18 Miser who may rescue everyone (4-3)
20 Controls wayward streams (7)
21 Fled before detectives became stale (6)
22 Comfort in a close, perhaps (6)
25 Homer's work (5)

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