No 9689, Monday 16 Nov 09, Gridman

ACROSS
1 - Those pieces of rock music one might have heard as a baby? (6,5) - CRADLE SONGS [CD]
9 - Removing the lid of oven, I and child get meat (7) - (-o)VEN{I}{SON}
10 - Executive bid to cover in-charge (7) - OFF{IC}ER
11 - Squanders sole trip to capital of Sikkim (5) - LOSE*{S}
12 - You can’t put a name to this sort of person (9) - ANONYMOUS [E]
13 - One in brilliant step (5) - STA{I}R
15 - On these you can’t call without some loose change with you (3-6) - PAY-PHONES [E]
18 - Whew! It’s awry in boat, turned to one side! (4-5) - SK{EW WH*}IFF
21 - Leading grievers in dreadful song (5) - DIRGE [E] (Correction to Anno thanks to Maddy - DIR{G}E)
22 - Painlessness of alien saga unfolded (9) - ANALGESIA*
24 - Workers held by Assistant Commissioner of Police misbehave badly (3,2) - AC{T U}P
26 - Everybody goes into woody hollow that’s greasy (7) - {T{ALL}O}{W(-ood)Y}
27 - Ram, army officer, is unusually idle (7) - {COL}LIDE*
28 - Will they cure plane sickness? (4,7) - TREE DOCTORS [CD] ?
DOWN
1 - Teaches refinements to number after number with seers having no hesitation (9) - {CI}{VI}{LI}{SE(-er)S}
2 - In south India, brother’s left with old coins (5) - ANNAS [DD] Anna is the Tamil word for elder brother
3 - When the camel protests enough is enough… (4,5) - LAST STRAW [E]
4 - Slump! An equipment is here to receive an artificial tan (7) - SUN LAMP*
5 - One strange record on unknown new word (7) - NEO*{LOG}{Y}
6 - Kind of icecream for weak fool (5) - SOFTY [DD]
7 - A ship in which sherry may be served (8) - SCHOONER [DD]
8 - Cars go round the bends (4) - ARCS*
14 - Authorise mother to come up first — that’s responsive (8) - {AM<-}ENABLE
16 - Conveying water, monster has one litre transferred in upper case (9) - {HYDRA}{U{LI<-}C}
17 - Describing the vigilant keeping watch (9) - SLEEPLESS [E]
19 - How the fashionable may step out… (2,5) - IN STYLE [E]
20 - Primarily flimsy cover around account that is soft and weak (7) - {FL}{ACC}{ID} (Correction - {F}{L{ACC}ID} - See Chaturvasi's comments below)
22 - Star swayed by cultural pursuits (4) - ARTS*
23 - Plaster in good social function (5) - G{ROUT}
25 - Top circling around top in a Hong Kong district (3,2) - T{AI} PO*

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