No 9845, 18 May 10, Gridman

ACROSS
1   - Rough-and-ready method by Tom's dictum? (4,2,5) - RULE OF THUMB
9   - They pull undergarments (7) - DRAWERS [DD]
10 - One boy back with another at the far end of ledge to remove covering (7) - {DIS<-}{ROB}{E}
11 - To a specified time peacekeepers get oil (5) - {UN}{TIL} TIL is Sesame but TIL by itself cannot mean OIL.
12 - PTA cheery about a perfect example (9) - ARCHETYPE*
13 - Give a dirty look to some of the bellowers (5) - LOWER [T]
15 - Shame! Dhonis veered off! Quarter of an hour lost! (9) - {DISHON*}{hOUR}
18 - They keep shops smartened in a certain manner (9) - TRADESMEN*
21 - Company raised rejected rodent (5) - {COY}{PU<-}

22 - Young German gamely abandoned a broken playground equipment (6,3) - {JUNG}{LE GYMa*}
24 - Caused injury by removing top with weapons (5) - hARMED
26 - Act with college head following ‘stop' order on a kind of research (7) - {POST*}{DO}{C}
27 - One who depletes to fall in the German case (7) - {D{RAIN}ER}
28 - His pic Colin morphed is inside the PC (7,4) - SILICON CHIP*
DOWN
1   - Communist to ponder over alien fish (3,6) - {RED} {MULL}{ET}

2   - Less than less (5) - LEAST [E]
3   - Bigger than big (9) - OVERLARGE [E]
4   - One who would wax eloquent over models, presumably (7) - TUSSAUD [CD]
5   - And the German, to sock pieces away, moves out (7) - {UND}{OCKS*}
6   - Criticise and wildly stab at one finally (5) - {BAST*}{E}
7   - Plump pudding (4-4) - ROLY-POLY [DD]
8   - First of samples, before it's withered (4) - {S}{ERE}
14 - By-no-means a strong vice (8) - WEAKNESS [CD]
16 - Canoeing — a sport for another time (4,5) - {ONCE {A}GAIN*}
17 - It brings you to where you began the journey (5,4) - ROUND TRIP [CD]
19 - Wonderful wise men raise a large amount (7) - {MAGI}{CAL<-}
20 - Itinerant, sane, leaders of Indian culture (7) - {NOMAD}{I}{C}
22 - Yes, in Germany, primarily puerile English quip (4) - {JA}{P}{E}
23 - Ditches fifty poems (5) - {L}{ODES}
25 - Insect hovers around Pole for a period (5) - {MO{N}TH}

GRID

No 9844, Monday 17 May 10, Gridman

ACROSS
1   - By order, behead no stupid person (8) - BONEHEAD*
5   - Creep on dam, do! (6) - {WEIR}{DO}
9   - Standard a couple of females at home have for what paper may be coated with (8) - {PAR}{A}{FF}{IN}
10 - What one did on the doormat pretty much is plain (6) - STEPPEd
12 - Strip of wood is almost bluish-grey (4) - SLATe
13 - Thinner bit of raga included in composition of inept tune (10) - {TU{R}PENTINE*}
15 - Help get comfy at bedtime (4,2) - TUCK IN [CD]

17 - A piece of the action in golf? (5) - DIVOT [CD]

20 - Wrongdoer abandons soft part of target (5) - sINNER
21 - Managed to be back on tier that's of little breadth (6) - {NAR<-}{ROW}
24 - Rep felt cup is broken and becomes tense (10) - PLUPERFECT*
27 - Enemy surrounding large ice sheet (4) - F{L}OE

 29 - Kind of dismissal suffered by foreign one taking part in conducted tour (3,3) - {R{UN} OUT*}
30 - Without a crew, deprived of strength of mind (8) - UNMANNED [DD]
31 - Company of players to gather, we hear (6) - TROUPE(~troop)
32 - Rummage broken lunettes (8) - UNSETTLE*
DOWN
1   - Give the skip to a kind of surgical procedure (6) - BYPASS [DD]
2   - Just condition met by young boy (6) - {NORM}{AL}
3   - Sound set provided in Hampi's outer limits (4) - {H{IF}I}
4   - What you might say as you leave in France (5) - ADIEU [E]
6   - Consumed bit of what neta eagerly passed back (5) - EATEN [T<-]
7   - Respite for church official covering public relations unit (8) - {RE{PR}{I}EVE}
8   - You can't make one without breaking an egg (8) - OMELETTE [CD]

11 - Footloose writer in Californian town recalled beginner(6) - {O{PEn}NER<-}
14 - Say “I'm happy” as a Siamese might (4) - PURR [CD]

16 - Ruler, one replaced by you, said to have endless fun in martial art (4,2) - {K(-i+u)UNG} {FUn}
17 - Abandon an ornament (4) - DROP [DD]
18 - Discourage girl's rip-it posture (8) - {DIS}{PIRIT*}
19 - Hint that disparate union is about to wind up (8) - {INNU{END}O*}
22 - Scheme by the alien for a heavenly body (6) - {PLAN}{ET}
23 - Dog, with its tail docked but possessing a bit of dependability, for church official (6) - BEAg{D}LE 
25 - Provide oriental bit of wit (5) - {E}{QUIP}
26 - About unknown clergyman (5) - {C}{ANON}
28 - Feeling of malice in chacha telling (4) - HATE [T]

GRID