No 9874, Monday 21 Jun 10, Nita Jaggi

NJ-NJ please go away and don't come back another day.

ACROSS
1   - Investigate a senior held in a disaster (7) - {TR{AGED}Y}
5   - Rider's novel read in front of father, an expert guide (6) - {SHE}{R}{PA}
10 - Scraps of scattered ornaments left initially outside (8) - REMNANTSo*
11 - Good boy reviews one's spiritual knowledge (6) - {G}{NOS<-}{I'S}
13 - Plays with trinkets (4) - TOYS [DD]
14 - Now I see her distracting the President (10) - EISENHOWER*
16 - Musician's jacket, overheard (6) - RAPPER(~wrapper)

18 - Journalist goes back to an inmate, struggling with deteriorating mental state (8) - {DE}{MENTIA*}
21 - Keen to fix the hedge (8) - {QUICK}{SET}
22 - Controls the wardens (6) - GUARDS [DD]
25 - New in style (10) - INNOVATIVE [E]
27 - Correct the bad language out in students finally (4) - CURsE
30 - New banknotes (6) - TENDER [DD]
31 - Maya is in trouble running topless (8) - {ILL}USION Anno pending, who is running topless here?
32 - Turning course, fish rises in a sideways drift (6) - {LEE<-}{WAY<-}
33 - Fate of the French opener (7) - {DES}{TINY}
DOWN
2   - Drink is in front of my game (5) - {RUM}{MY}
3   - Leave in the kid (4) - {GO}{AT}

4   - Fact of the French sleuth (6) - {DE}{TAIL}
6   - Camelback slope (5) - HUNCH [E]
7   - Red spray is used in perfume (4,5) - {ROSE} {WATER}
8   - Albert exiled from Oz to another country (7) - AUSTRalIA
9   - Hollow box on the side (6) - {CRATE}{R}
12 - Member has the Spanish masterpiece (5) - {LEG}{EL} or is it {L{EL}EG}? Is this NJ's masterpiece to end this round?
15 - Cover the ground (4) - DECK [DD]
17 - Flying pigeon can cause distress (9) - POIGNANCE*
19 - Large birds shown in The Three Musketeers (4) - EMUS [T]

20 - Heartlessly try to follow the pitch-black part of the harbour (5) - {JET}{TrY}
21 - Woman drops an equivalent kind of mass unit (7) - QUINTALeve*
23 - Insane to have spread the colour (6) - SIENNA*
24 - Develop part of some revolvers (6) - EVOLVE [T]
26 - South Indian form of lute instrument (5) - VEENA [CD]

28 - Head singer is out of the concert in the club (5) - UNIsON
29 - Requirement for powder (4) - DUST [DD] ? What's the requirement here?

GRID

No 2590, Sunday 20 Jun 10

ACROSS
1   - One leaving order for artillery (8) – ORDiNANCE
5   - A female in posh car getting more reckless (6) – {R{A}{SHE}R}

10 - Japanese dog biting contralto in opera (5) – {TOS{C}A}

11 - Nickname for resolute men in club teams (9) – {IRON}{SIDES}

12 - Use to perform surgery (7) – OPERATE [DD]
13 - A President Ford car (7) – LINCOLN [DD]

14 - Deceptively prim, I ran centre with accomplice (7,2,5) – PARTNER IN CRIME*
17 - So craftier plot hatched in jungle (8,6) – TROPICAL FOREST*
21 - Two lines of verse produced by associate, last in sonnet (7) – {COUPLE}{T}
23 - Snake, excellent specimen (7) – RATTLER What's the connection between Rattler and excellent specimen?
24 - Sailing boat can crossing a West Country river (9) – {C{A}{TAMAR}AN}

25 - Incompetent writer rejected in it (5) – {I{NEP<-}T}
26 - Cause of timeless crime? (6) – tREASON
27 - Put off drinking tin, for bottle (8) – {DE{CAN}TER} Nice clue
DOWN
1   - Work? Not I, spoilt for choice! (6) – {OP}{TION*}
2   - Outlaw peer, odd as can be (9) – DESPERADO*

3   - A very angry upset worker in firm (7) – {A}{DAM<-}{ANT}
4   - One may cast a shadow in Beijing plant (7,7) – CHINESE LANTERN [CD]

6   - As found in vaccines radiographer brought over (7) – ARSENIC [T<-] Another nice one
7   - Doctor in Hoy rebuilt a health spa (5) – {HY{DR}O}
8   - Took exception to being put on after opener's taken off (8) – pRESENTED
9   - End argument for as opposed to against? (4,10) – {GOAL} {DIFFERENCE} Football fanatics VJ, Kishore and Giridhar must be happy with this clue
15 - Rude when drinking drop of vodka on the rocks (9) – {INSOL{V}ENT}
16 - One of the crocks at races? (5,3) – STOCK CAR*

18 - At home, dance up in the air (2,5) – {IN} {LIMBO}
19 - In tears having spilt wine (7) – RETSINA*
20 - Large hole in old car beginning to rust (6) – {CRATE}{R}
22 - Very vital to resourceful tramps (5) – ULTRA [T]

GRID