No 9585, Wednesday, 15 Jul 09, Nita Jaggi

Here we go with 10 days of wild guesses and ??? at times. I am sure today's four letter words will throw up some wild guesses
ACROSS
2 - Person in charge lacks the right to oversee (6) - MANAGE(-r)
7 - Soldier has a standard bomb (4) - {PAR}{A}
9 - Emperor is the country head in Zaire holding an adult (4) - {C}{Z{A}R}
10 - It appears twice as much in numbers (6,7) - DOUBLE FIGURES [CD]
12 - Built a lab in a country (7) - ALBANIA*
13 - Damage the car air pipe regularly of the French (7) - {C}{R}{I}{P}{P}{LE}
15 - Language spoken in a municipality (4) - PALI [T]
17 - Make a mess of the dish inside the edges of a shell (5) - S{POI}L
18 - Engineers on the ship to pay tax (4) - CE{SS}
19 - Building material for the signboard (7) - SHINGLE [DD]
21 - Key worn by mistake in an American state (3,4) - NEW YORK*
23 - Quiet workers to almost follow the tables one has corrected in an organisation (13) - {ESTABL*}{I}{SH}{MEN}{T(-o)}
27 - A narrow promontory (4) - BILL [CD]
28 - I am back touching the thick mud (4) - {MI<-}{RE}
29 - Prevents the animals swallowing the bone (6) - DE{T}ERS
DOWN
1 - Start to support a new boy coming up with the shoe (6) - {S}{A}{N}{DAL<-} )
2 - Passing the tenth without the three spotted markings (10) - MA(-tri)CULATION
3 - Empty set? (4) - NULL [CD]
4 - Game in the oil-producing countries gets around when taken for the upper class (4) - G(-u+o)OLF
5 - Place ready displaying the shrub (4) - ACER [T]
6 - Places us around the spacecrafts (8) - CAPSULES*
8 - Player in an enclosure on the road (5) - CAGE{R}
11 - Learning aid given in a textbook (7) - EXAMPLE [CD]
13 - Head cashier somehow lets in the customers (7) - {C}{LIENTS*}
14 - Chap to construct a yard with difficulty to measure the Southern elephants (10) - {PACH*}{YDERM}{S} YD is Yard and EM is measure where did R come from? Unless YRD has been taken as abvn of Yard.
16 - Allow in to hit a hundred crazy to be fit (8) - ATH{LET}I*{C}
20 - Sign for the politician to arrive back (5) - LIB{RA<-} )
22 - Step down from one’s position at the age of 58? (6) - RETIRE [CD]
24 - Not starting even at this time to prepare the land for crops (4) - (-un)TILL (Correction - (-s)TILL)
25 - Lied about not being busy (4) - IDLE*
26 - Animal hidden in the bush area (4) - HARE [T]