No 12317, Tuesday 15 May 2018, KrisKross

ACROSS
1   Preserve jam (6) PICKLE [DD}
4   Drunk after consuming whiskey, one left at 6 p.m. say (8) TWILIGHT {T{W}{1}{L}IGHT}
10 Designed extremely serene, green IT Park (9) SERENGETI {Se..nE+GREEN+IT}*
11 After half-time, general free-for-all (5) MELEE {tiME}{LEE}
12 Challenge student to wear formal gown in the evening (7) PROBLEM {P{ROB{L}E}M}
13 Easily influenced president to stay in charge (7) PLASTIC {P}{LAST}{IC}
14 It is used to draw a king or queen perhaps (5) RULER [DD]
15 Second team in the auditorium gets minute for a critical review (8) SCRUTINY {S}(~crew){CRU}{TINY}
18 "American in Paris", perhaps? No — he's from another part of Europe (8) PRUSSIAN {PR{US}SIA*}{N}
20 Caught in deluge…a great flood (5) EAGRE [T]
23 Insulting a coach, essentially cursing at very end of game (7) ABUSIVE {A}{BUS}{cursIng}{V}{gamE} Not excactly 'essentially' KrisKross seems to have overlooked the 'S' in bus.
25 Borders of Europe controlled by Iron Lady (7) PEERESS {P{Eu..pE}RESS}
26 I spot nursing institution making dope (5) IDIOT {I}{D{I}OT}
27 I say, Frank's turnaround is a revelation (3-6) EYE-OPENER (~ I){EYE}-{OPEN}{RE<=}
28 Cabbage dressing — working girl's diet (8) CONGRESS {C{ON}{G}RESS}
29 At the entrance of airport, approval to start erecting small terminals (6) ANODES {Ai...t}{NOD}{Er...g}{S}

DOWN
1   Graduate left to get document (8) PASSPORT {PASS}{PORT}
2   Group of travellers, mostly run around playing polo (7) CARPOOL {CA}{R}{POLO*} (Addendum - {RACe<=}{POLO*} - See comments}
3   Turn over envelopes with dead son's letters (9) LANDLORDS {ROLL<=} over {AND} with {D}{S}
5   Young, impudent member of the paparazzi? (14) WHIPPERSNAPPER {WHIPPER}{SNAPPER}
6   Liberal Victorian heroine makes a proposition (5) LEMMA {L}{EMMA}
7   New tagline for jelly (7) GELATIN*
8   Where you could find men in depression? (6) TRENCH [C&DD]
9   A young lady — one around seven — starting to spell 'laissez-faire' (14) PERMISSIVENESS {PER}{MISS}{1}{SEVEN*}{Spell}
16 Following that article about conversion of pound, Germany moved out (9) THEREUPON {THE}{RE}{POUNd}*
17 Millions begin to emigrate when divided by certain laws (8) MEASURES {M}{Em...e}{A{SURE}S}
19 Party over — a French champion retires (7) REUNION {RE}{UN}{NO1<=}
21 Gathered information from a legend (7) GLEANED*
22 Setter goes through many articles about Jack the Ripper, maybe (6) MANIAC {M}{AN}{I}{A}{C}
24 Learner shortly lay down to rest (5) INTER INTERn

GRID

Bhargav's Talepiece

The bouncer and the dancer - Part 36

There was no immediate danger from the tee shirt guy who turned out to be half-MANIAC,  just another tourist.

The SMS message from CONGRESS turned out to be an EYE OPENER. The security measures in DCC were MINIMAL.

While they were going round DCC a PRUSSIAN wearing a coat with a "V" logo stopped SS.

"PASSPORT. Where is your passport? Come, you have been summoned for SCRUTINY."  SS was taken away to an inner room.  THEREUPON he was asked to handover the envelope given to him by Gombu.

SS came out with a sigh of relief and joined Kayal and the others. He felt that with the handing over of the envelope all his PROBLEMS were over.

TWILIGHT had set in when they returned to the hotel. Lily felt very happy on their REUNION.

What happened next?