The Hindu Crossword 7006

Across

 1 Recoil to the sound of a badly tuned car engine? (8)
 5 Clean job - sounds great! (6)
 9 Contest to see who can deliver the fastest bag of cereal (8)
10 Most senior led set to effect reform (6)
12 Got drenched in the party accustomed to misbehave (6)
13 Capital liquor, illicitly made we hear, cause hallucination (8)
15 British award for proper maintenance of dirt-free room (5,2,5)
18 She checks about hundred petitions to admit some to see the boss (12)
23 Divide part with ease (8)
24 Negligent in the occasional sense (6)
26 Tell a story in order to establish the association (6)
27 Longing for something, first written in Hindi? (8)
28 Making a mistake cutting the head off fish (6)
29 It may engage the attention of would-be investors (8)

Down

 1 Live next to a neighbour (6)
 2 Spiky little plant (6)
 3 Hold back for the animal! (7)
 4 Naturally solid and hard to sway (4)
 6 Essential substance for bones (7)
 7 One relates the need to change studio rooms (8)
 8 To assess real estate value, I'm called in (8)
11 Leading lady has drug up to a point (7)
14 Turn aside to skirt around (7)
16 Keep in a jam jar (8)
17 Scar, Paul the monk, covers with shoulder cloak... (8)
19 ... follows strict religious principles sounding pure in the beginning (7)
20 Where there is usually a rise and fall of water (7)
21 Public uproar on hearing Hitler addressed thus (7)
22 Small private room for intimate friends to have tea? (6)
25 The quiet person happens to be an old messenger (4)

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