No 9662, Thursday, 15 Oct 09, Gridman

Bye-bye Gridman it's Manna from tomorrow
ACROSS
 1 - Witness to examine a hill (8) - {TEST}{A}{TOR} Is the definition correct, a testator is one who makes a will ?
 5 - Bill sound to be playing a part (6) - {AC}{TING}
10 - Critic, an unsolicited caller (7) - KNOCKER [DD]
11 - Tapa cloth is such a fabric (7) - UNWOVEN [CD]
12 - Merchant recalls edit substituting ‘centre’ with ‘right’ (6) - T(-c+r)RADER <- )
13 - Silver bedding shining (8) - {AG}{LITTER}
15 - Repeat from noble Cholas (4) - ECHO [T]
16 - One might dip into it to get some key work done (6,4) - TYPING POOL [CD]
18 - Without human responses this study cannot be conducted (10) - REACTOLOGY [CD] Never thought there was a study like this!
20 - Gridman backs one student — a boy (4) - {EM<-}{I}{L}
23 - Publicist gets certain words in axioms (8) - PROVERBS [CD]
24 - Uncle Richard’s minister (6) - CLERIC [T]
26 - Too old (7) - OVERAGE [E]
27 - Artist with instrument not entirely used to make a pasta dish (7) - {RA}VIOLI(-n)
28 - Figurehead to steer roughly? Rot! (6) - {F}ESTER*
29 - Horse towering in Mumbai suburb (8) - S{TALL}ION
DOWN
 1 - Finally let people know by an uncovering (4,3,5,3) - TAKE THE WRAPS OFF [CD]
 2 - Bear with Tom’s rolling with endless pain (7) - STOM*{ACH(-e)}
 3 - Don’t begin to fret over primarily trivial ornament (6) - (-r)ANKLE{T}
 4 - Partially took rare vegetable (4) - OKRA [T]
 6 - Covers for hundred and fifty steeped in debts (8) - {C}OW{L}INGS
 7 - Where an artificial fertilisation might take place (2,5) - IN VITRO [E]
 8 - When candidates are chosen in all or most constituencies (7,8) - GENERAL ELECTIONS [E] (Correctio - GENERAL ELECTION)
 9 - Yet these expenses have to come into the books (9) - OUTGOINGS [CD]
14 - This has one but long words have more of these (9) - SYLLABLES [E]
17 - Cattle on time in a part of the ship (8) - {STEER}{AGE}
19 - They worship Senior coming up to a doer’s play (7) - {A}{DORE*}{RS<-} )
21 - Radio pioneer to spoil for exotic icon (7) - {MAR}CONI*
22 - Yoke a leading villain in unhealthy cell (6) - CL{A}{V}EL*
25 - Worry about ornamental work (4) - FRET [DD]

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