No 9498, Saturday, 04 Apr 09, Nita Jaggi

I think I shall stop commenting about the clues set by this setter as I don't like them, too long winded and superfluous at times. Chemistry being my pitfall I don't think I will ever get 5D. Addendum with help from the Orkut community

ACROSS
7 - Engineer is likely to be dependable (8) - RE{LIABLE}
9 - Bring to mind the visit following the queen turned back (6) - RE<-{CALL}
11 - Dictated a piece to an educated man about the bad experience (9) - NIGH{T}{MA}{RE} (Addendum - NIGHTMARE ~ knight mayor)
12 - Sound to be back on an island in the East (5) - NO<-{IS}{E}
13 - Speaker has an alternative for an army to turn back on the outer borders (6) - OR{AT<-}{OR}
14 - Sound to express alarm over a manipulated card bill (8) - BIRDCALL*
17 - Returned the piece of cloth to the sender maybe for the caretakers (9) - GAR<-{DENERS}*
22 - Never change to mean it (2,2,4) - AT NO TIME*
23 - Princess holds the gold string to the left of the lizard (6) - IG{UA<-}NA
25 - Indicated to the soldiers in Channel Islands at the front of the territory (5) - TA{CI}T
27 - Cause of tension as a new bail is written for an Italian monarch (4,5) - {N}{AIL B}{IT}{ER}
28 - Manuscript is namely a photographic film (6) - SC{ROLL} Namely - SC ?
29 - What the bank may give to benefit a holder? (8) - INTEREST [CD]
DOWN
1 - Get the second sound of bell playing (5,2) - B{RING} ON
2 - Official to send a signal to the soldier (7) - FLAG{MAN}
3 - Loud table sound! (5) - BLEAT*
4 - A worker from Europe only (4) - PEON [T]
5 - Chemical group has a small structure, overheard (7) - ?A?I?AR (Addendum - RADICAL ~ radicle)
6 - The aging shrub lay heartlessly (7) - ELDER{LY} (lay - a)
8 - Roast tuna cooked by a spaceman (9) - ASTRONAUT*
10 - Soft Russian leader is covering an oriental cross (7) - LENI{E}N{T}
15 - Position to lie rigid around a second class airship (9) - DIRIGI{B}LE*
16 - Notice a man on the tree top being very stubborn (7) - {AD}AMAN{T}
18 - Noisy worker to say wrong of something imagined (7) - {F}ANT{ASY*}
19 - Creature in United Nations has an officer on the borders of erstwhile Rangoon (7) - UN{I}{CO}{RN}
20 - Vessel for a youngster in the restaurant outside (7) - CAN{TEEN}
21 - Ran up in speed to tell a story (7) - NAR<-{RATE}
24 - Help taken up by the knight for one princess (5) - DIA<-{N}{A}
26 - Note for the French story (4) - TA{LE}