The Hindu Crossword 6912

Across

 1 This rope goes round the awards (8)
 5 Is so very keen, it's irritating! (6)
 9 Premier clergyman? (8)
10 Ask for a hand-out - that's quite absorbing (6)
12 Order to enter and go to bed (4,2)
13 The pacifier (8)
15 Flash way to make a quicker connection (5,7)
18 Not in the running for this race? (7,5)
23 Going for the port in rather a military way (8)
24 The more you concentrate, the less you do (6)
26 More submissive that me at first (6)
27 Reckon it's right to have a `magic box' (8)
28 Don't give in! (6)
29 Bob takes the quick route (5,3)

Down

 1 It's bright red and well centred (6)
 2 They have sworn, anyway to get possession of the key (6)
 3 Unruly Shah imbibes his intoxicant (7)
 4 Said I'd been watched (4)
 6 Fastest spinner is all the rage at first (3,4)
 7 Distributes the workers making an appeal (5,3)
 8 Tell about the listener with the salt (8)
11 Outstanding constable (7)
14 Herb gets in a state in America (7)
16 The double-faced watchman! (3-5)
17 Blossom's knicker-bockers? (8)
19 Rouse awe with one million papers! (7)
20 Cheerful, but careless user of crockery (7)
21 Curt is quite at home in the country (6)
22 Search and drive out the pole-cat (6)
25 Couple in a spot of bother? (4)

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