No 10388, Friday 17 Feb 12, Sankalak

ACROSS

1   - Under par, not up to the mark (5,8) - BELOW STANDARD {BELOW} {STANDARD}

10 - In an old place, alien gets across people, becoming used to it (9) - INUREMENT {IN}{UR}{E{MEN}T}

11 - Supernatural being puts defence wing back on track (5) - FAIRY {FAI<-}{RY}

12 - Fruit universal in Georgia and Virginia (5) - GUAVA {G{U}A}{VA}

13 - Kind of memory needed for storing information (9) - RETENTIVE [E]

14 - Choose one of two (6) - PREFER [E]

16 - Plans made on 13th April about Austria (5) - IDEAS {IDE{A}S}

19 - Unlikely story of confusion in Sri Lanka (5) - SPIEL {S{PIE}L}

20 - Pelted, got very drunk (6) - STONED [DD]

25 - Represent by a figure how boys smile somehow (9) - SYMBOLISE*

26 - Parts of cow used as food beginning to turn smelly (5) - TRIPE {T}{RIPE}

27 - Highway from the heart (5) - AORTA [DD]

28 - Cries in NE exposed as hypocritical (9) - INSINCERE*

29 - Strength needed when getting the sack following editor's return? (13) - DETERMINATION {DE<-}{TERMINATION}

DOWN

2   - Tried to do better than a bird, overdue, beginning to despair (8) - EMULATED {EMU}{LATE}{D}

3   - Musical work written in hope rather than reason (5) - OPERA [T]

4   - Drink that can make one go wrong in modest surroundings (6) - SHERRY {SH{ERR}Y}

5   - Capacity that makes UTI adept perhaps (8) - APTITUDE*

6   - One charged to protect worker (9) - DEFENDANT {DEFEND}{ANT}

7   - Dry fruit which, for the artist, is trendy (6) - RAISIN {RA}{IS}{IN}

8   - Call using the last word about gun culture (4,2) - RING UP {RI{NG U*}P}

9   - Sorts unknown in a backward Irish clan (5) - TYPES {T{Y}PES<-}

15 - Personage, one deployed without right in spying (9) - ESPIONAGE [PErSONAGE+i}*

17 - Food shop with spirit accommodates one in a state of confusion (8) - DELIRIUM {DELI}{R{I}UM}

18 - Lead player opposed to start? (8) - ANTIHERO [CD]

21 - Fuel extracted from oilseed, nothing less (6) - DIESEL oILSEED*

22 - Some writing by the old about a ship in retreat (5) - ESSAY {E{SS}{A}Y}<-

23 - Shadows seen by doctor starting research in the Emirates (6) - UMBRAE {U.{MB}{R}A.E.}

24 - Time of year — a marine issue? (6) - SEASON {SEA}{SON}

26 - A doctrine enshrined in a remote network (5) - TENET [T]

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