No 9631, Tuesday, 08 Sep 09, Gridman

Film name at 18A eludes me
ACROSS
1 - Thoroughly wet, some turtles taken into sea, at odds (8) - SA{TUR}ATE*
5 - Girl and a learner given prayerbook (6) - {MISS}{A}{L}
10 - Disease, terminal, outright bad (7) - AILMENT(-r)*
11 - Opposed to a victory, by the way (7) - {A}{GAIN}{ST}
12 - Gobble Dalit leader’s oeuvre endlessly and furiously (6) - {D}EVOUR(-e)*
13 - Silent Tom back on one act (8) - {TAC<-}{I}{TURN}
15 - Dark blue vehicle backs at end of bay (4) - {NAV<-}{Y}
16 - Page, angry, following convict — Jolly Roger (6,4) - {P}{IRATE} {F}{LAG}
18 - Film comically teasy about Indian woman (4,6) - E?S? L?R?E? (Addendum - EASY {STREE}T*)
20 - Blow was delivered on time (4) - SWA*{T}
23 - Funeral songs somehow pieced into hollow epics (8) - E{PICEDE*}(-pic)S
24 - Artist, laid back, with a sort of tyre (6) - {RA}{DIAL<-} )
26 - If I get caught in core-transfer, I’ ll look for an opening (7) - OR{IF}{I}CE*
27 - Fencing band goes without top-class learner (7) - R{AI}{L}ING
28 - She is a practiser of a Hindu system of mental discipline (6) - YOGINI [E]
29 - See no good photograph of contestant unlikely to win (4,4) - {LO}{NG} SHOT
DOWN
1 - Good man with operative at religious observance to insist on formality (5,2,8) - {ST}{AND} {ON} {CEREMONY}
2 - Capital tale spun out by victors surrounding one (3,4) - {TEL A*}V{I}V
3 - Sad you are said to be up on fuel crisis (6) - {RU<-}EFUL*
4 - A couple of thanks and a goodbye! (4) - {TA}{TA}
6 - Thinks it’ s fashionable to be in pictures (8) - IMAG{IN}ES
7 - Erotic doctor leaves laundress in a fluster (7) - SENSUAL(-dr)*
8 - Which might cause a red eye in one up in the sky (4-5,6) - LATE-NIGHT FLIGHT [CD]
9 - Queen of the queens in India (9) - MAHARANEE [E]
14 - Sort of dragon that might burn one by a mere look (5-4) - FIERY-EYED [CD]
17 - A member of a people — large group found by a Scot (8) - ALGER*{IAN} (Correction - {OS}{SET}{IAN} )
19 - Passing gradually — I’d soaked in an American drink (7) - SL{ID}ING
21 - Desire to possess a score resembling milk in colour (7) - W{HIT}ISH
22 - Accountants in good housing (6) - {CAS}{IN}{G}
25 - A group of patriots (4) - TRIO [T]

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