No 9535, Monday, 18 May 09, Gridman

Easy outing for a Monday
ACROSS
 1 - Event with choice possibilities (8) - ELECTION [CD]
 6 - Difficult trip with frontrunners of the regiment entering Kohima (4) - {T}{R}{E}{K}
 9 - Low joints (6) - ANKLES [CD]
10 - Enrol the setter recalling Nepal movement (7) - {EM<-}{PANEL*}
13 - One is so when one is free (2,7) - AT LIBERTY [CD]
14 - One so perplexed may be caught by it (5) - NOOSE*
15 - Boozy grown-ups return to hold a wild party (4) - ORGY [T]
16 - In offering one grand is included as a ‘must’ (10) - OBL{I}{G}ATION
19 - They add a shimmer to the edges of the mouth (3,7) - LIP GLOSSES [CD]
21 - The Ramayana, for example, featured in the pictures (4) - EPIC [T]
24 - Police outpost in Mumbai suburb undergoing change finally (5) - THANA (-e+a)
25 - Such a file has no images (5,4) - PLAIN TEXT [CD]
26 - American author Caldwell, for one (7) - ERSKINE [CD]
27 - Hilda is disturbed by a bloomer (6) - DAHLI*{A}
28 - Tipples in small amounts (4) - SIPS [CD]
29 - One who barely makes a dash (8) - STREAKER [CD]
DOWN
 2 - See no good member for a fielding position (4-3) - {LO}{NG}-LEG
 3 - They are famous people, in short (6) - CELEBS [CD]
 4 - Dedicates to fashionable journalists (9) - {IN}{SCRIBES}
 5 - Poor born extremely drearily (5) - {NEE}{DY}
 7 - Decoration at the doorstep managed with energy by 51 (7) - {RAN}{GO}{LI}
 8 - Going mad, Yank licks ten tenacious fighters (8,4) - KILKENNY CATS* Hearing of this for the first time
11 - Learner goes after animal into thatched structure (6) - {PANDA}{L}
12 - Affairs overwhelming no little one raised by author (3,2,7) - MA{N O}{F LE<-}TTERS
17 - Foreign national transforms elder Rani (9) - IRELANDER*
18 - Soap maker? (6) - ALKALI [CD]
20 - Gives prominence to songs about young dog (5,2) - P{LAYS} UP
22 - Summary by the Orient is exact (7) - {PRECIS}{E}
23 - Hand-out Radha had carelessly discarded in a region of India (6) - {ANDH*}RA(-had*)
25 - Noblemen’s jetties, by the sound of it (5) - PEERS (~piers)