No 9569, Friday, 26 Jun 09, Gridman

Manna from the heavens tomorrow?
ACROSS
1 - Worker to draw out with water supply application (4,4) - HAND PUMP [CD]
5 - Free of charge, a hundred leave (6) - {A}{C}{QUIT}
10 - A primarily temperamental worker in one U.S. city or another (7) - {A}{T}{L{ANT}A}
11 - Edit writer’s composition about end of disturbance (7) - REWRIT*{E}
12 - Incomplete hint by Chinese dynasty on comedian’s necessity (6) - {TI(-p)}{MING}
13 - What a model or a clock must have for a presentable appearance (4,4) - NICE FACE [CD]
15 - Lionized one backs old dynasty (4) - IDOL<-)
16 - Such dishes and drinks won’t do for people with glucose intolerance (5-5) - SUGAR LADEN [CD]
18 - Excited gents overrun at that time to tune up (10) - ST{R}ENG*{THEN}
20 - Second bed for foreign national (4) - {S}{COT}
23 - Sleep northern workers have in bits (8) - {REM}{N}{ANTS}
24 - Trying experience in gold transaction… (6) - {OR}{DEAL}
26 - …bad… do not go in pieces (3,4) - NOT GOOD*
27 - Finally in January, girl, father and I reach an Arizona county (7) - {Y}{AVA}{PA}{I}
28 - Don’t begin to narrate slips or mistakes (6) - (-n)ERRATA*
29 - By evacuated dredger, I grill engineer on equipment used in oil exploration (5,3) - D(-redge)R{ILL RIG*}
DOWN
1 - This gives cover for one’s medical expenses (6,9) - HEALTH INSURANCE [CD]
2 - Lone bum destroyed waterlily (7) - NELUMBO*
3 - Longing for tossing a nip: gin-cocktail (6) - PINING*
4 - Intend to be average (4) - MEAN [DD]
6 - Musical instruments a herd might have, perhaps (8) - COWBELLS [DD]
7 - Single piece lying on a road is bodysuit (7) - {UNIT}{A}{RD}
8 - Mum: the cashier isn’t working, perhaps (6,2,7) - THERES NO TELLING [DD]
9 - Annoyed one Reading gallery, getting in free (9) - {I}{R}{RI{TATE}D}
14 - Cart puller gathers in time I’d confined the workers in herd (9) - MUL{T}{I{TU}D}E Nice clue
17 - Leave furtively, creeping snake is abroad! (5,3) - SNEAK* OUT
19 - Fallen meteor at farther end is more distant (7) - REMOTE*{R}
21 - More debased, revolutionary article on agent raised (7) - {CHE}{A}{PER<-} 22 - Disturb rock fragments? (6) - GRAVEL [DD]
25 - Batik worker? (4) - DYER [CD]