No 9586, Thursday, 16 Jul 09, Nita Jaggi

YECH!!! will be an understatement for this one. Please don't ask me for any explanation for some of the answers, as I don't have them!!!!
ACROSS
1 - Principal element (4) - LEAD [DD]
9 - Cocktail gent has mixed as fast as possible (7,3,5) - AGAINST THE CLOCK*
10 - Lacking taste from the puff lately (4) - FLAT [T]
11 - Fast arab turns back even to upwind (5) - {RAP<-}ID Anno pending (Addendum - {RA<-}{P}{I}{D} Thanks to Anokha - see comments)
12 - Heartless Roy is holding you and the black stone (4) - R(-o){U}{B}Y
13 - Politician is following the case somehow leaving Edward with the naughty child (5) - SCA(-e)*{MP}
14 - Long trips taken by sea explorers! (7) - VOYAGES [CD]
16 - Birds irritate the calf in the capital of Sri Lanka (7) - FALC*{ON}{S}
18 - Sound to disturb the development stage (5) - PHASE ? (Addendum - PHASE(~faze) Thanks to Anokha)
22 - Race around area of land (4) - ACRE*
23 - Roll dice to host a party (5) - THROW [DD]
24 - After midnight, it is all right to go out of control (4) - {AM}{OK}
25 - A cut above the basic is mandatory at first for the spirit world (15) - {SUPER}{NATURAL}{IS}{M}
26 - First to dye the beard after sunset (4) - {D}{AWN} This must be a first if Dawn comes after sunset and I suppose the sun will rise in the west!!!!
DOWN
2 - With hesitation, I and the saint are in charge of the debater (7) - {ER}{I}{ST}{IC} New word for me
3 - Start to dodge one second crook endlessly for the money the man is picking out (14) - {D}{I}{S}{CRIMINA(-l)}TING
4 - Quick to barge in Leeds every second (5) - AGILE [T]
5 - Finishes the card game (5) - STOPS [DD]
6 - Mummy holding the red hot owl gone off to sleep soundly (4,2,3,5) - DEAD TO THE WORLD Poor mummy
7 - Initially good looks often require immense approval from a girl (6) - {G}{L}{O}{R}{I}{A} [T]
8 - Infection disturbs the basic beast regularly (7) - SCABI*{ES}
15 - Mediator’s job? (5,2) - PATCH UP [CD]
17 - Intelligent class the lady will start to rule (6) - {CL}{EVE}{R}
19 - Samajwadi leader has a structure opening in the direction of the bird (7) - {S}{WALL}{O}{W}
20 - Brother cooks the hot liquid (5) - {BR}{OTH}
21 - Unpleasant woman buried in a poor setting (5) - {W}ORSE Reminds me of the recent debate on one of Neyartha's clues resulting in DOLCE

No 9585, Wednesday, 15 Jul 09, Nita Jaggi

Here we go with 10 days of wild guesses and ??? at times. I am sure today's four letter words will throw up some wild guesses
ACROSS
2 - Person in charge lacks the right to oversee (6) - MANAGE(-r)
7 - Soldier has a standard bomb (4) - {PAR}{A}
9 - Emperor is the country head in Zaire holding an adult (4) - {C}{Z{A}R}
10 - It appears twice as much in numbers (6,7) - DOUBLE FIGURES [CD]
12 - Built a lab in a country (7) - ALBANIA*
13 - Damage the car air pipe regularly of the French (7) - {C}{R}{I}{P}{P}{LE}
15 - Language spoken in a municipality (4) - PALI [T]
17 - Make a mess of the dish inside the edges of a shell (5) - S{POI}L
18 - Engineers on the ship to pay tax (4) - CE{SS}
19 - Building material for the signboard (7) - SHINGLE [DD]
21 - Key worn by mistake in an American state (3,4) - NEW YORK*
23 - Quiet workers to almost follow the tables one has corrected in an organisation (13) - {ESTABL*}{I}{SH}{MEN}{T(-o)}
27 - A narrow promontory (4) - BILL [CD]
28 - I am back touching the thick mud (4) - {MI<-}{RE}
29 - Prevents the animals swallowing the bone (6) - DE{T}ERS
DOWN
1 - Start to support a new boy coming up with the shoe (6) - {S}{A}{N}{DAL<-} )
2 - Passing the tenth without the three spotted markings (10) - MA(-tri)CULATION
3 - Empty set? (4) - NULL [CD]
4 - Game in the oil-producing countries gets around when taken for the upper class (4) - G(-u+o)OLF
5 - Place ready displaying the shrub (4) - ACER [T]
6 - Places us around the spacecrafts (8) - CAPSULES*
8 - Player in an enclosure on the road (5) - CAGE{R}
11 - Learning aid given in a textbook (7) - EXAMPLE [CD]
13 - Head cashier somehow lets in the customers (7) - {C}{LIENTS*}
14 - Chap to construct a yard with difficulty to measure the Southern elephants (10) - {PACH*}{YDERM}{S} YD is Yard and EM is measure where did R come from? Unless YRD has been taken as abvn of Yard.
16 - Allow in to hit a hundred crazy to be fit (8) - ATH{LET}I*{C}
20 - Sign for the politician to arrive back (5) - LIB{RA<-} )
22 - Step down from one’s position at the age of 58? (6) - RETIRE [CD]
24 - Not starting even at this time to prepare the land for crops (4) - (-un)TILL (Correction - (-s)TILL)
25 - Lied about not being busy (4) - IDLE*
26 - Animal hidden in the bush area (4) - HARE [T]