Three answers per commenter with annotations upto 8:30 AM on 23 Dec 2013.
For academic interest please answer the following
1. How many answers you had left after half an hour.
2. How long you took to complete the CW.
Answer the above provided no help was taken by you from any other source like Google etc when you were solving.
I had 15 left after the 30 mins we got at the Finale.
9 Refurbished
shrine stocks the last of church wine (7)
10 Concerning
daily - in theory (2,5)
11 Stray one
leaves source of potency and associates with books (7)
12 Boy goes
over a sod that's turned - what's-his-name? (2-3-2)
13 Being on a
circuitous path, go untired, maybe zigzagging (9)
15 Tired out,
each exits in an unexpected direction (4)
17 All Mira
discarded is a bracelet (7)
20 Fellow
pupil (7)
21 Draw together
in criticism, say (4)
22 Where
females are scarce? (9)
26 Such a
secret is sure to be out (3-4)
27 Rent row
leads to a storm (7)
29 Indian
uncle's examination is stretched to the limit (7)
30 One
holding on to something, by changing sides, becomes a sycophant (7)
1 Language
in which two boys described leader of Rameswaram (9)
2 Hang on,
say, with some importance (6)
3 Split
competitor doesn't complete (4)
4 Talk
about tiny, half-broken Indian earthenware (6)
5 Entrusts
prisoner with placards (8)
6 South
Indian father with a large sum nearly
hit a region in the U.S. (10)
7 Back
number (8)
8 Wrong
note introduces nothing in basic education (5)
14 Having no
education, a French boy's without character (10)
16 Nothing to
pay for panel in vessel's side above water (9)
18 Greek hero
rounded up by usual enemies (8)
19 Owns up
and lets in two without a shred of warranty (6,2)
23 Observe
section without head going astray (6)
24 Fruit -
nothing need be added to this and stirred for a seasoning (6)
25 Said in
France pair heard the same (5)
28 Bear with
bishop having gone off to fetch rubble (4)
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