No 9476, Tuesday, 10 Mar 09, Gridman

Sailed through today, nothing much to talk about in the CW. 6D eludes me though (Update cracked 6D also)
ACROSS
1 - Eagerness for a huge amount of money to write endlessly on end to magnanimity (8) - A{LAC}RIT(write-w-e)Y
5 - Short preliminary event leads to women and lovers kicking under pressure (6) - WALK UP [T]
10 - Objected to Rogan bending to the newspaper boss … (7) - GROAN*ED
11 - … and wandering off to Zambia for material (7) - ORGAN*{Z}A
12 - Finding artist is at home results in a fruity experience (6) - RA{IS}IN
13 - Finding he’s in a low resort can be sticky (8) - AD{HES}IVE
15 - They may be expected to be monkeying around (4) - APES [CD]
16 - It causes merriment to female Indian cartoonist on stormy night (5,5) - F{UNNY} THING* See some cartoons by Unny at the link provided
18 - Can manage to discipline a plebe catching sickly coot (4,2,4) - ABLE TO COPE*
20 - Limits blurring in sacred Israeli town (4) - ACRE (sacred-s-d)
23 - Bird with sex appeal in limits of Erukkancherry gives long time (8) - E{TERN}IT{Y}
24 - Somewhat mute about princess being lost in weariness (6) - TE{DI}UM*
26 - Saying it’s end of time to two animals (7) - E{PIG}RAM
27 - Persistently question relative about vegetable (7) - PUMP{KIN}
28 - Bound you once with fabric (3-3) - TIE D{YE}
29 - Blogs, perhaps, on dismantled stop-sign (8) - POSTINGS*
DOWN
1 - One schooled in this may not show indignation all too quickly (5,10) - ANGER MANAGEMENT [CD]
2 - Pulverise some at one go! (7) - ATOM{I}SE*
3 - Indian queen and daughter trapping leading corrupter is spoiled (6) - RAN{C}I{D}
4 - Orderly one dead in the limits of Trichy (4) - T{I}{D}Y
6 - Excellent! Greet vigorously one going in feathers (8) - A?G?E?T? (Update {AI}GRET{T}E*) Don't know where the second T came from
7 - The last of fisherfolk working on one tub hauled up the raft (3-4) - K{ON} {TIK<-}I Thor Heyerdhals journey in this raft must have been a real experience. Anyone remembers the instrumental KONTIKI by the SHADOWS from the 60s, check it at the link
8 - These are signed to end hostilities (5,10) - PEACE AGREEMENTS [CD]
9 - Hundred used pictures in spells of winter weather (4,5) - C{OLD} SNAPS
14 - Interval for an intake (5-4) - LUNCH BREAK [CD]
17 - Straying away to fish (8) - STINGRAY*
19 - General and boy close to home where there is tranquillity (3-4) - LEE SIDE Wrong word, no-one says LEE SIDE or PORT SIDE (Update - Ignore my comments, LEE SIDE is there in the dictionary, though I always thought it was LEEWARDS)
21 - Smart to see fowl (7) - CHIC{KEN}
22 - The man comes ahead of the setter in light head covering (6) - {HE}L{ME}T I wonder when our country will wake up and pass a national law to make helmets compulsory for two wheeler riders, including the pillion, but I wonder what the rest of the family who are also on the two wheelers will do !!!
25 - Turn, please turn over till (2,2) - {U}P TO