No 12322, Monday 21 May 2018, Sunnet

What is Sunnet celebrating?

ACROSS
1   Means of attracting attention of army chief having an expression of disgust (6) COUGHS {CO{UGH}S}
4   Brown's riotous third anniversary (8) BIRTHDAY {B{THIRD*}AY}
10 Willing to roughly evict peer (9) RECEPTIVE*
11 Some tax on elastic fibre used for transmitting electrical impulses (5) AXONE [T]
12 Set a standard starting place for an auditor (5) PARTY {PAR}{TY}(~tee)
13 Furniture worker found around every street (9) HALLSTAND {H{ALL}{ST}AND}
14 Able to repair sled tapers (7) CANDLES {CAN}{SLED*}
16 Endlessly long period (4) YEAR YEARn
19 Bar coat (4) CAKE [DD]
21 Swell dance at midday ain't starting (7) BALLOON {BALL}{nOON}
24 Family's barely egalitarian (9) CLASSLESS {CLASS}{LESS}
25 Firecracker of a story (5) SQUIB [DD]
26 Value of one final letter sent in before (5) PRIZE {PR{1}{Z}E}
27 Star before M.Curie's shot (3,6) TOM CRUISE {TO}{M+CURIES}* To/before? See comments
28 Unethical fellows throw saints outside hospital room (8) SHYSTERS {SHY}{ST{ER}S}
29 Take away nine and score (6) TWENTY {29-9}

DOWN
1   Shell's vehicle near a yard (8) CARAPACE {CAR}{A}{PACE}
2   Indifferent to one auditor's association (8) UNCARING {UN}{CA}{RING}
3   Joyful occurrence near Puducherry (5) HAPPY {HAP}{PY}
5   Ponzi deal lynch-pin arrested in the best possible manner (7) IDEALLY [T]
6   Reformed naval star of South African Republic (9) TRANSVAAL*
7   Tree sent a message back heartlessly (6) DEODAR RADiOED<=

8   Produces incomes (6) YIELDS [DD]
9   Wants husband to enter enlightened society (6) WISHES {WIS{H}E}{S}
15 Metal layer's song copy with musical notation (4,5) LEAD SHEET {LEAD} {SHEET}
17 Result of mixture (8) SOLUTION [DD]
18 Arrogance of partners to head off theft (8) SNOBBERY {SN}{rOBBERY}
20 It sends out core jet's slurry (7) EJECTOR*
21 Supervisor circumambulates award chests (6) BOSOMS {BOS{OM}S}
22 Assesses sister and manages (6) SCOPES {S}{COPES}
23 Note by relative to unknown group (6) FAMILY {FA}{M-I-L}{Y}
25 Disseminate soup recipe inside (5) STREW {ST{R}EW}

GRID

Bhargav's Talepiece

The bouncer and the dancer - Part 41 and 42

SS used to KEEP TAB on Rita, a DIVA and a dancer of EXTRAordinary TALENT. She was the one who could easily EXHILARATE the crowd.

 He had thought of the BIG PICTURE long back. With her in the team the PROSPECT of his 'CAPTURE' of Shangri-la sooner than later was bright.  

INVOKING Rita an ENIGMAtic personality was not really difficult for SS. Neither  rhyme nor REASON would convince her, but BEHESTing her with money in the right quantity would. And  keep her away from playing TRUANTS!

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TRANSVAAL.

A BIRTHDAY PARTY is arranged by DEODAR for his sister Rita with TWENTY CANDLES.

A FAMILY function with CAKE and BALLOONS.

The mobile rings. It's a phone call from SS and Rita is RECEPTIVE and YIELDS to his request to join his team as a dancer for a few months.

What happened next?