Special, Wednesday 27 Jan 2016, Sridhar Krishnan

Three answers per commenter (annotations compulsory) till 6 PM
Please provide all your answers in one comment

ACROSS
9   Galileo onto mysterious history surrounding prehistoric expert (15)
10 A posh house, you said, after a couple of drinks (7)
12 Swing backing role with apparent comfort (7)
13 A fine line in learning to lose the wise one for topless wife (5-4)
14 Mindful of conflict between first characters (Adam and Eve) (5)
15 Saps graduate! (4,3)
18 Endurance of beasts left out for last breakfast on the way back (7)
21 Lively ambassador leaves unhappy state for dance (5)
23 Flay former mate for dirty erotica (9)
25 Release reactive bluish phosphorus (7)
26 Angry Poseidon about to leave east causes incident (7)
29 Inconsiderate to knead his sourdough and grind without us (6,9)

DOWN
1   Larger-than-life show's centrepiece (4)
2   Michael Faraday partly rejects bug (4)
3   Hospital, therefore, admitting sheep. Not again! (4,2,2)
4   Resulted from guarantee but no right to fifth amendment (6)
5   Toolmaker prays to cover pirated stuff (8)
6   Music Nostradamus composed without drums (6)
7   Alter one, Italian, flaky intelligentsia (8)
8   Let treacle flow in the absence of learners and other odds and ends (2,6)
11 Dye man applied to woman on the rise (5)
15 Old man's game permit (8)
16 Story's odd characters include Ed and Moby endlessly tormenting a fellow (8)
17 That is hers stitched into absainer's dress (3,5)
19 Sealed software brain correct to include leading technology (8)
20 Reputed college backs Democrat (5)
22 She quit translating Sinhalese for foreigners (6)
24 Poltical radical to scratch angel (6)
27 Evacuate Okinawa and Honshu for another island (4)
28 Kills myths that don't have a thing to stand on (4)

Across Lite version can be accessed at Sridhar Krishnan 2

Enjoy.

Special, Sunday 20 Dec 2015, Sridhar Krishnan

Welcome to our new setter Sridhar Krishnan. Compliments and brickbats on the CW are welcome.
Three answers per commenter as usual till 6 PM (Annotations to be compulsorily provided with answers)
As far as possible please try to put all your answers under one comment.

ACROSS
1   King of Judah, vagrant buried in a lot of paper (8)
5   Almost fire back at composer losing key to African palace (6)
10 Attendant's sweetheart leaves baseball team (5)
11 Restores confidence of backward country lacking unity in prophet (9)
12 Turns politician back, first-timer replacing last veteran (7)
13 State of neutron housed where it belongs in retrospect (7)
14 Lifeline for worryingly bulimic daughter consuming ground coral (9,4)
19 They instruct a lot of fish attending golf tournament (13)
25 Disease, mental disorder one's in (7)
27 Mogul, an attraction, one's told (7)
28 Fighter, boy, one swallowed by croc (9)
29 Fit for a king, drink is rejected (5)
30 Theatre's first actor shows appreciation (6)
31 Desperate state, one more, for conductor (8)

DOWN
1   Priest before worship (6)
2   Babe, perhaps, following head first, flat out misleading (9)
3   Bozo's topper, silly hat, yet sent up to get a cleaning here (7)
4   Spray also-ran hugging topless hero (7)
6   Weapons left after a snare is spread (7)
7   Graduate drinking rum cocktail in former country (5)
8   Conserves heritage leader of American groups (8)
9   Photographer climbs pointlessly to treetop to see runway (6)
15 The Italian protecting lady is unwell (3)
16 He leaves the hub for painting (3)
17 Merriment without pause after Mafia bosses are decapitated for carnage (9)
18 Grated carrot tips and cored oranges for mollusc (8)
20 Honour woven silk monument (7)
21 Transform Greek letter gallery (6)
22 Warriors from island concealing recovering addicts drinking alcohol (bottoms up) (7)
23 Devour excitedly, go green (7)
24 All clear is blown, Al leaves basement (6)
26 Beast trapped in squall, a marsupial (5)

Across Lite version can be accessed at SRIDHAR KRISHNAN 1

Enjoy.