Birthday Special, Sunday 16 Dec 12, Kishore

The Research and Analysis Wing of THCC wishes its Director General the Very Best on the completion of his 60th solar orbit and presents a crossword with a few of his favourite things (as starred clues). Happy Birthday, Colonel Deepak Gopinath.

3 answers PP. Please add annotations along with your answers

ACROSS
1 *Come in! Lilt playing in DG's old car (10)
6/24 *Desert person's rich concoction consuming you finally? That's DG favourite dish! (4,8)
8 Army detachment in Gujarat's capital for what DG has been doing to crossworders (7)
9 Hard-to-get-to-know person, which DG is not (7)
10 22's weapon in a couple of tutor's sketches (4)
12 Put together - Good man was raring to have his blog thus by 8.30 AM (8)
13 Smiling, he might say it as he sees it at the table? (6)
16 What 1 across took in moving as it did in its heyday (as an American would say) (3)
18 Stop wearing gold for so long! (5)
20 Considerate to hide age (3)
21 Influence provided backing to amass as much as possible (4,2)
24 *See 6 across
26 Gentleman has little time to create a disturbance (4)
30 Chirpy about runs secured, yet such a victory is not worth it (7)
31 Officer's new driver at the rear of Esteem - not excellent to have acceleration (7)
32 Huts built in this way (4)
33 *One caught in military fight or encounter, at first in Indian city (10)

DOWN
1 *See 22 down
2 Haunts playing Latin music (5)
3 Paddy losing his heart to Lily (4)
4/5 *Setting it right, they must lead to the moment of solver's enlightenment (5,6)
5 *See 4 down
6 Prattle with the French with pine ends (6)
7 What Cocoa likes to do: Stop and kick start (4)
11 Have to look up (4)
12 It's waste anyway (5)
14 Trap girl at home (3)
15 *Rugged Mt Fuji out of Japan, it is not uniform (5)
17 It helps Bond e.g., pursue essentially sly criminal (9)
19 Record breaking peaks of Austria and Switzerland (4)
22/1 *As a mouth curls we curiously get to see it under the nose (6,9)
23 *Cut lining accordingly for a military cap (6)
25 Tendency to accept facts is missing in the country (5)
27 Either side of this old human body (5)
28 Domestic help always at hand initially (4)
29 Account by setter's written up in a guesthouse (4)

With special thanks to Kishore for creating this puzzle and  Gridman, Arden, Shuchi and Buzzer for their clues.

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