The Hindu Crossword 7142

Across

 1 Insipid to the core (9)
 5 Uniform in seventeen (4)
 8 It's really nothing (3)
 9 Medical plant the roots of which are used as laxative (7)
10 Rap back on equal footing (3)
11 Short high pitched signal (5)
12 Candidates have some part in as much of a muddle (9)
13 Going beyond modulation at the end (7)
15 Aid us rightly to get this line-from center to circumference of sphere (6)
17 Beam from the regal dirge (6)
18 Indecent old boy finds the place repulsive (7)
21 Supervisors in charge of clairvoyants (9)
22 Former trader in additional section here (5)
24 Tiny little one (3)
25 Obviously vulgar (7)
26 At some time besides (3)
27 Lied about being out of work (4)
28 Begged to be entered at a different level (9)

Down

 1 Small number competent to be maintained (7)
 2 Loves to work out to find an answer (5)
 3 Cultivated act you performed indeed is different (8)
 4 Irritable agent having a nap (6)
 5 Awkwardness from team of royal brass men is different (13)
 6 Tending to be wide ranging (9)
 7 Bloomers one gets up (6)
 9 Deserving unworthy censure (13)
14 Plagued like the souls in hell? (9)
16 Unchanging quantity (8)
17 Got to rot in the cave somehow (6)
19 Former personage elated to be in a high position (7)
20 It is sure to be Dennis (6)
23 Attempt to make an appointment when over the way (5)

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