No 10148, Saturday 07 May 11, Nita Jaggi

ACROSS
4   - Old boy is killed outside by the minister (8) - {CHAP}{sLAIN} 'S' for 'side' ?
8   - Do many characters disturb the go-getter? (6) - DYNAMO*
9   - Gathering at a military unit (10) - CONTINGENT [CD]
10 - Berlin executives hidden in the queue (4) - LINE [T]
11 - Whip the boys leaving the deserted house (4) - {LAdS}{H}
13 - Small one is in the car attacked at first by the insects (6) - {S}{C{I}AR}{A}

15 - Scales the South Pole to study the birds finally (7) - {SP}{READ}{S} Scales & Spreads ?
17 - I have to follow Jack in this kind of music (4) - {J}{I'VE}
18 - Choose the photo of the kid in front (4) - {PIC}{K}
19 - Type of sugar that is controlled by insulin (7) - GLUCOSE [E]
21 - Clinic staff will take care of the patients ultimately (6) - {NURSE}{S}
22 - Kind of tense old man on the street (4) - {PA}{ST}
25 - Disturb the saint in Iran (4) - {ST}{IR}
26 - Compromised into a legal claim (10) - ALLEGATION* My COD
27 - It joins by the surgeon's stitches (6) - SUTURE [CD]
28 - Cartoonist sketches out a number of shrubs (8) - ARCTOTISno*

DOWN
1   - Lad ultimately embraced a grownup person (5) - ADULT [T]
2   - One, one bit of a sour fruit (6) - {AN}{AN}{A}{S}

3   - Company's officer has a strong beverage (5) - {CO}{CO}{A}
4   - Beach souvenir (5) - CONCH [CD]
5   - Pen names for a boxer specifically in the east is odd (7) - {ALI}{AS}{EaSt}
6   - Gift the French man a new computer firm with no money (9) - {LA}{G}{N}{I}{APPlE} Had to cheat on this, never heard of this word.
7   - It is bliss, they say (9) - IGNORANCE [CD]
12 - Told to lift the girder material (5) - STEEL(~steal)
14 - An innkeeper has six catalogues to distribute outright (9) - {VI}CTUALER Anno pending
15 - Disturbed new sect seen growing old (9) - SE(N)ESCENT*
16 - Dirty dog knocks back this year in front of the house (5) - {DAC<-}{HA}
19 - One Greek letter is missing from the multi-stage development in this branch of psychology (7) - GESTALT(i)(mu)*
20 - Attribute the killings excluding three in this kind of slaughter (6) - BATTUEtri*
22 - Cuts back on the couples on telephone (5) - PAIRS(~pares) From the clue I thought it was the other way around.
23 - Pick up on the soldiers first seen in trouble (5) - {S}{ENSE*}
24 - Sneak by the climbing plant without difficulty (5) - CREEPer

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