No 9560, Tuesday, 16 Jun 09, Nita Jaggi

Yesterday's Crambe turned out to be a leafy vegetable and not a Herb!!
ACROSS
7 - Ran around one on bed, grasping a jacket (8) - {RA{I}N}{CO{A}T}
9 - Cheerful, little woman is on an old way in the capital of Lakshadweep (6) - JO{VIA}{L}
11 - Toxic condition in the east claims father somehow (9) - {E}{CLAMPSIA*}
12 - Daily routine work (5) - HABIT [CD]
13 - Soundly expected the friend to turn back the flap of skin (6) - (-due)DEW{LAP<-}
14 - William has his wife to stir up the dull talk (4,4) - {W}{ISH*} {W}{ASH*}
17 - Farmers have a writer son (9) - FORESTER{S}
22 - Student is in to move about the heavy club (8) - B{L}UDGE{ON}
23 - Almost ask for certain to remove any doubt (6) - {AS(-s)}{SURE}
25 - Won’t I get upset under one’s guidance? (2,3) - IN TOW*
27 - Absurd cop to search the cabinets (9) - CUPBOARDS*
28 - Hunter holds one fifty one in an Asian city (6) - GU{I}{L}{I}N
29 - Coloured paper flag (8) - STREAMER [CD]
DOWN
1 - No date inside the chips made for pals (7) - FRIE{ND}S
2 - West Indies has a couple of learners who heartlessly climb up seven trees (7) - {WI}{LL}{O(-h)W}{S} Have seen plenty of Weeping Willows in the Kashmir valley from which cricket bats are made
3 - Wet land on the red planet is hot (5) - MARS{H}
4 - Elegant leaders pointing out some hotels (4) - {P}{O}{S}{H} [T]
5 - Animal and a snake cross the submarine (7) - PIG{BOA}{T}
6 - Cross in the lake surrounded by a muddy appearance (7) - B{LO{T}CH}Y
8 - Hurry up, commander alone is nervous at midnight (4,5) - {COM}{E ALON*}G
10 - Judge a carbon, thin kind of mineral (7) - {J}{A}{C}{INTH*}
15 - Ring in an hour, go round to look at the star chart (9) - H{O}R{O}{SCOPE}
16 - Be happy, as boy holds in charge following the queen going up (7) - {RE<-}JO{IC}E
18 - Cut a card game (7) - A{BRIDGE}
19 - Falls at the end of a performance (7) - CURTAIN [CD]
20 - Certain of holding power on half of them in England to the greatest extent (7) - SU{P}R{(-th)EM}E
21 - Officials giving a clean chit for a film release (7) - CENSORS [CD]
24 - Flow of water on large apes covering the junction (5) - SPA{T}E*
26 - Reported a large mammal having a loud sound (4) - WAIL(~whale)