No 13438, Monday 27 Dec 2021, Hypatia

Solution to  1D has been deliberately left unsolved and is to be answered only by a non-regular / novice commenter, with proper annotation. Those who have answered earlier in the week, please give others a chance.

Rangoli by Gowri

ACROSS

8   Surrenders revenues (6) YIELDS [DD]

9   About now, local time’s instinctive (8) INHERENT {IN{HERE}N}T}

10 Student’s bar training for percolating (8) LEACHING (-t+l)LEACHING

11 Goddess of Kashi depicted around temple originally (6) SHAKTI {KASH{Te...e}I*}

12 Mafiosi chiefly expands to seafood (8) LOBSTERS (-m+l)LOBSTERS

13 Not married perhaps, parents get rest (6) OTHERS mOTHERS

14 Passage from classical dance recital (7) ODYSSEY (~odissi)

17 Draw a model painting in Persian court (7) ATTRACT {A}{T}{ART<=}{CT}

20 Conduct puja outside current royal capital (6) JAIPUR {JA{I}PU*}{R}

22 Manama ran this bottling plant (8) AMARANTH [T]

25 Segal novel describing last of love birds (6) EAGLES {EAGL{lovE}S*} 

26 Where batsmen play or grow (8) INCREASE {IN CREASE}

27 Bitterness gripping princess returning to art festival (8) BIENNALE {BI{ANNE<=}LE}

28 Doctor sends ambulance in front for cars (6) SEDANS {SENDS+Am...e}*

DOWN

1   Send meal for Spooner and fuel (8) ?I?E?O?D (Addendum - FIREWOOD (~wire food) - See comments)

2   Picks best celebrity shows in recession (6) ELECTS [T<=]

3   Long snake with anger (6) ASPIRE {ASP}{IRE}

4   Round-up GIs amidst ground revolt (7) DISGUST {D{GIS*}UST}

5   Get rid of heaps (5,3) PHASE OUT {HEAPS}* [RA]

6   Clergywoman wearing her cape and reading (8) PREACHER {HER+CAPE}*{R}

7   Hot celestial body’s developmental stage (6) INSTAR {IN}{STAR}

15 Exercise Puts underwriting scheme to replace (8) SUPPLANT {SUP{PLAN}T*}

16 Old Italian sure can’t change (8) ETRUSCAN*

18 Tendency to sin, evidently demonstrates constituent of DNA (8) CYTOSINE [T]

19 Try boxing the Greatest with the French astronomer (7) GALILEO {G{ALI}{LE}O}

21 Slowly, a soldier’s stalled by commotion (6) ADAGIO {AD{A}{GI}O}

23 Before ship’s caught in service entrance (6) ACCESS {SS}<=>{A{C}CE}

24 Commercial features information with a list (6) AGENDA {A{GEN}D}{A}

Reference List

Time = T, Student = L, Married = M, Court = CT, Current = I, Reading = R, Hot = IN, The in French = LE, Ship =SS, Caught = C, Service = ACE(in Tennis), Commercial = AD