No 10332, Monday 12 Dec 11, Sankalak

ACROSS

1   - A retreat in which to lie low in another direction (8) - HIDEAWAY {HIDE}{AWAY}

5   - Start of arduous labour in sage's abode (6) - ASHRAM {A}{SHRAM}

10 - Tresses that spell security? (5) - LOCKS [DD]

11 - Greatly reduced by deceit, dam collapsed (9) - DECIMATED*

12 - From two continents, on a safari, drifting (4-5) - AFRO-ASIAN*

13 - Permission to go (5) - LEAVE [E]

14 - Exposed hand at the card table (5) - DUMMY [CD]

16 - Odd-job man to act out FM's problem (8) - FACTOTUM*

18 - Principal course seen in newspaper (8) - HEADLINE {HEAD}{LINE}

20 - Intervals in music for others beginning to sleep (5) - RESTS {REST}{S}

24 - A Marx with an elegant ring (5) - CHICO {CHIC}{O}

25 - A medicine to get fibre up? No, kidding! (9) - IBUPROFEN*

27 - Talk about spreading soot as it were (2,2,5) - SO TO SPEAK {SO TO*} {SPEAK} (Addendum - {S{O TO S*}PEAK} - See comments}

28 - Eastern measure going west for sandwich spread (5) - MARGE {MARG}{E}<-

29 - City which witnessed conflict switching order (6) - WARSAW {SAW<->WAR}

30 - One who toils with a part of the tea service (8) - STRAINER [DD]

DOWN

1   - Henry gets a measure of a sailor's rope (7) - HALYARD {HAL}{YARD}

2   - Acceptable behaviour code broken over drink (7) - DECORUM {CODE*}{RUM}

3   - Where sailors are completely disorganised? (2,3) - AT SEA [DD]

4   - Insecticide found in a carnival drink counter (6) - ALDRIN [T]

6   - Make believe facility for fliers in training, for instance (9) - SIMULATOR [CD]

7   - Withdraw pamphlet following note (7) - RETRACT {RE}{TRACT}

8   - Two masters, strangely tired in the middle of the semester (3-4) - MID-TERM {M{ID-TER*}M}

9   - Look closely over Indian party for a skeleton in the cupboard (7) - SCANDAL {SCAN}{DAL}

15 - Lost leeway made up, sacrificing time, in a part of the Pacific (6,3) - YELLOW SEA {LOSt+LEEWAY}*

17 - He is privy to what is happening in his company (7) - INSIDER [CD]

18 - Tool that a poor writer was getting back (7) - HACKSAW {HACK}{SAW<-}

19 - A way to begin riling a flier (7) - AVIATOR {A}{VIA}{TO}{R}

21 - Colour that causes singular, unending insult (7) - SAFFRON {S}{AFFRONt}

22 - Can a big star suffer this creature? (7) - SUNBEAR {SUN}{BEAR}

23 - Following scent, alien finds a firearm (6) - MUSKET {MUSK}{ET}

26 - Dance of the odd bachelor (5) - RUMBA {RUM}{BA}

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