No 9537, Wednesday, 20 May 09, Gridman

ACROSS
 1 - Simpleton backs doctor to work on confection (7) - GUM<-{DR}{OP}
 5 - Journalist in retreat, caught in dismally sore surroundings, disintegrates (6) - ERO{DE<-}S*
 9 - Foeman in Jabalpur holds warrior (5) - NINJA [T]
10 - He repined on spilling medicine (9) - EPHEDRINE*
11 - Excited Super’s has one to boost (5,2) - RAISE UP*
12 - A big number mouthing off their yearning (7) - C{RAVING}
13 - Fiftyone recommended actions on pools (5) - LI{DOS}
14 - ”Nutty” role for Jerry Lewis in a film (9)- - PROFESSOR Must have seen this movie N number of times and will still see it again given a chance
16 - Plugged, as a container jar might be (9) - STOPPERED [CD]
19 - Brief paralysis of one in a game (5) - POL{I}O
21 - Rags about tears being shed on capturing game (7) - TA{TT}ERS*
23 - He may be up on a pole to fix a current problem (7) - LINEMAN [CD]
24 - Kerala festival has the engineer proceeding well (2,3,4) - ON {THE} {BE}AM
25 - About to be with an old historical figure of India (5) - {C}{LIVE}
26 - I need a revised epic (6) - AENEID*
27 - Observes planting of article and is angry (7) - SEE{THE}ES
DOWN
 1 - One may not go into particulars in making this (14) - GENERALISATION [CD]
 2 - Race around the earth? (7) - MANKIND [CD]
 3 - These tools are used for some rural gatherings (7) - REA*{MERS} Could not find the connection between MERS and rural gatherings, thought it was french but Mer in french is Sea. (Correction from comments below - REAPERS [CD])
4 - He rid Hamelin of rats by playing his flute (4,5) - PIED PIPER [CD]
 5 - Moral principle held by the thick-set (5) - ETHIC [T]
 6 - Someone known to you for ages or a young person with an aged look? (3,4) - OLD FACE [CD]
 7 - Brings to light what’s legal within the boundaries of estates (7) - E{LICIT}S
 8 - Reggie’s put out rejoinders against instruments to detect radioactivity (6,8) - GEIGER* COUNTERS
15 - Would one get burned by contact with former lovers? (3,6) - OLD FLAME [CD]
17 - One of those pieces of eight found in dismantled cote by railway official (7) - OCTE*{TTE}
18 - Come first but quietly fall back finally (7) - {P}RECEDE
19 - Fear about the Spanish throwing up flower cluster (7) - PANIC{LE}
20 - Find his plum having a heavy appearance (7) - LUMPISH*
22 - Retraction of the French capture of foreign mount (5) - S{TE<-}ED <- )