The Hindu Crossword 6900

Across

 1 Kind of house where cheques are cancelled against each other (8)
 5 Delicate meat returned by the French (6)
10 Simple catch, child's plaything (5)
11 Physically exhausted professionals deserve to take in a bit of tea (9)
12 Polite leaning to get allowances voted for royalty (5,4)
13 Mechanical man may plunder book (5)
14 He provides inner covering for the vessel (5)
16 Attain success is, oddly, the adage (3,5)
18 Actor with the reach to include on (8)
20 Strange oriental lake (5)
24 Attached a theologian with a journalist (5)
25 To reduce friction in the club, I tear around (9)
27 Chairs, tables etc. can, in time to come, get right back in (9)
28 Perceptive painting about the French (5)
29 Smart chap begins to move with bar (6)
30 Get in after the fool, one who agrees (8)

Down

 1 It changes the will when detectives return in spring (7)
 2 Bring cheer when some men live none too happily (7)
 3 Two boys of the king (5)
 4 Piece of cloth with a pink point perhaps (6)
 6 A pretext one devised to destroy fully (9)
 7 Prickly plant found by brother on a stroll (7)
 8 Returned to the House (7)
 9 Kick cricket side and get hooch (7)
15 A pair fried badly in a fast discharge from the guns (5,4)
17 Consequence of a nuclear explosion (7)
18 Moving vehicles in illicit trade (7)
19 Give sanction for new party in Gaelic (7)
21 Concerning a representative substance in the lab (7)
22 Oriental man of religion, a builder (7)
23 Sailor and young Elizabeth meeting female superior (6)
26 Reflection of personality (5)

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