The Hindu Crossword 7100

Across

 1 Muscle that goes round both ways (7)
 5 Hectic competition - among rodents? (3,4)
 9 A vat or kettle, one that is new: final offer, no more haggling! (4,2,2,5,2)
10 Gratify Greek god, rejected revolutionary (6)
11 Come earlier for a stake, partner (8)
13 Urban commercial area in centre of Nader's personal city (8)
15 Help the fool first (6)
18 Shout about cutting up eel as salad ingredient (6)
19 Pure English fez may, oddly, harden with ice (6,2)
22 Flatter fat university professor initially (6,2)
24 Promise to return record with urgency (6)
27 Nice English PC customer got repaired for popular subject for study (8,7)
28 Perennial but lacking any aim (7)
29 Science man, master of education, made a plot (7)

Down

 1 Bug in grass recorded afresh (7)
 2 A symbol to understand (5)
 3 Shape and finish a chemical in three months (9)
 4 Shelter raised for holding duck (4)
 5 Change your mind about time of penance (6)
 6 Business harangue drives one out (5)
 7 Chemical compound a medic processed with tea (9)
 8 Plead for English beginners' party (7)
12 Confess to putting wife in negative set up (3)
14 Such action cannot be chronologically disagreeable? (4-5)
16 The girl will shortly look for crabs etc. (9)
17 Mineral, golden, English (3)
18 Young chap in charge of the French in compartment (7)
20 Pass oneself off as a soft, tender eccentric (7)
21 Compulsion upsets a posse rudely ordered here (6)
23 Avoid the Spanish university dear? A right forfeited (5)
25 Material for study I started memorising (5)
26 Applications for American directions (4)

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