No 10360, Friday 13 Jan 12, Sankalak

ACROSS

1   - A plain rightist, excited, is pernickety (13) - HAIRSPLITTING*

10 - Right hand reversed in painting: it is showing a joint problem (9) - ARTHRITIS {ART}{HR<-}{IT}{IS}

SEE THIS CARTOON

11 - Unfair to do it yourself? About right (5) - DIRTY {DI{RT}Y}

12 - Girl, escorted by students, is steady (5) - LEVEL {L{EVE}L}

13 - Swing! (9) - OSCILLATE [E]

14 - Such an angle is more than a right one (6) - OBTUSE [CD]

16 - Money made from dough (5) - BREAD [DD]

19 - Soup for the two containing a piece of radish (5) - BROTH {B{R}OTH}

20 - Footballer keeps doubly black thing found on the beach (6) - PEBBLE {PE{BB}LE}

25 - Priest who made Clem angry somehow (9) - CLERGYMAN*

26 - Advertisement for an aviator (5) - FLYER [DD]

27 - To fall behind the Spanish, on reflection, is lawful (5) - LEGAL {LE}{GAL}<-

28 - Order that at one time confined restless Indra (9) - ORDINANCE {O{INDRA*}NCE}

29 - Tempi rendered wrongly — that was decided in advance (13) - PREDETERMINED*

DOWN

2   - Bustle that an idler lacks (8) - ACTIVITY [CD]

3   - Pastoral wall painting changed at the top (5) - RURAL (-m+r)RURAL

4   - The magic medicine of Asterix! (6) - POTION [GK]

5   - Unsafe sinecure abandoned (8) - INSECURE*

6   - Sudden flood following big shake, possibly (5,4) - TIDAL WAVE [CD]

7   - 98.6 (6) - NORMAL [CD]

8   - Urge the dogs beginning to hunt, with everyone ahead of ducks (6) - HALLOO {H}{ALL}{OO}

9   - Reportedly chews on pieces of information (5) - BYTES (~bites)

15 - Strained to get drugs distributed around capital of Liberia (9) - STRUGGLED {STRUGG{L}ED*}

17 - Put an end to a collector's item abroad (5,3) - STAMP OUT {STAMP} {OUT}

18 - Suspended animation for a regulation, say (8) - ABEYANCE [DD]

21 - Educated, lost head but made money (6) - EARNED lEARNED

22 - A device to measure notes in a particular order (5) - SCALE [DD]

23 - He has no choice in his vocation! (6) - BEGGAR [CD]

24 - More cynical insider, confused, loses heart (6) - SNIDER INSiDER*

26 - The enjoyment a soldier derives from primitive plants (5) - FUNGI {FUN}{GI}

GRID