No Monday morning blues today. Had to google for 27A and felt like a fool when I got the relatively simple answer
ACROSS
1 - Support an American in a spot (7) – S{US}TAIN
5 - Large bird but a bit of an incubus tardily noticed (7) – BUSTARD [T] See the Great Indian Bustard
9 - Somehow a creation livens conscription (8,7) – NATIONAL SERVICE*
10 - A beam that would permit nothing in return (6) – LIN<-TEL<-
11 - Such a record has to be word-for-word (8) – VERBATIM [CD]
13 - Pamphlet, one about treatment for muscles perhaps (8) – TRACT{I}ON
15 - A pistol that can raise the temperature? (6) – HEATER [2]
18 - Vicious attitude of one caught by a man (6) – MAL{I}{C}E
19 - Lack of confidence in unfeeling members (4,4) – COLD FEET [2]
22 - The idea is to include reserves in a series of signs (8) – NO{TA}TION
24 - Demanding, like a ruler (6) – AS{KING}
27 - The voice of the people is the voice of God? Alcuin did not think so (3,6,3,3) – VOX POPULI VOX DEI
28 - A serene guest has it in him to break a promise (7) – RENEGUE [T] This is a variant of the spelling Renege
29 - In the drink, spouse finds fish (7) - ALEWIFE
DOWN
1 - Undergarment for one not married on time (7) – SINGLE{T}
2 - Material for a day at home (5) – SAT{IN}
3 - He has no appetite for creation, caught unawares (9) – ANORECTI*{C}
4 - Point supported by a listener close by (4) – {N}EAR
5 - Eight-gallon container (6) – BUSHEL [CD]
6 - Drink in a vehicle returning, taking 60 minutes (5) – S{HR}UB<-
7 - Artist Leo’s interpretation of Greek philosopher (9) – ARISTOTLE*
8 - A visionary, the German consumes a lot of paper (7) – D{REAM}ER
12,17 Good-good French sweet (6) – BON BON [2]
14 - Turn fax into a contaminant (9) – AF{L}ATOXIN*
16 - Mysterious code opens a diagnostic tool (9) – ENDOSCOPE*
17 - See 12
18 - Fur used in a short skirt, verily halved (7) – MINI{VER} See the picture of the Stoat used to get thie fur, how can one slaughter such beautiful animals just to get some fur?
20 - The point of a joke brings a tingle, oddly (3,4) – TAG LINE*
21 - A unit of a spacecraft of the French captured by a spy (6) – MO{DU}LE
23 - Redhead leaves crowd in a skimpy bathing garment (5) – TH(-r)ONG
25 - Black-and-white lemur caught in rain, dripping wet (5) - INDRI [T] A popular animal for CW setters
26 - A writing tip rejected in M.P. town (4) - BIN<-A I remember it as an important railway junction have passed it many a time
I passed by Bina way back in the late Sixties when I visited my sister's family in Sawai Madhopur.
ReplyDeleteVox Populi used to be the pseudonym for writers of letters to the editors of newspapers wishing to hide their real identity: nowadays papers discourage the use of noms de plume (is the plural OK?)
The plural is right as per my Oxford dict, I am yet to get the Chambers.
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