The Hindu Crossword 12101

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Across

• 1. Bottle bombs exploded around centre of Delhi, accompanied by release of some bright flares (4-7)
• 9. Sappers manage show once again (5)
• 10. Place where a hundred and fifty were covered by molten rock by graduate initially (9)
• 11. Lama worked excitedly for a bird from the New World (10)
• 12. Piercing wail (4)
• 13. Tree snake entraps Nightingale at first (5)
• 15. Spread canard about American soldier returning sweater (8)
• 17. Reinforce old ship returning to lock (8)
• 19. Judge may frequently repeat this: "Command and discipline" (5)
• 22. Critical situation : absence of credit for Daesh (4)
• 23. Informing (including United Nations nominees at first) on digging of underground passages (10)
• 26. Strengthened die fit for moulding (9)
• 27. Former spouse returned paintings, for example, ... more than what was required (5)
• 28. He cuts off your top reeds, sirrah, in a frenzy (11)

Down

• 1. Redesigned UK bar dress (5)
• 2. Laird's network's not working with expected regularity initially (9)
• 3. Couple of boys fall into black beer and talk foolishly (6)
• 4. A lariat may be fashioned into heavenly footwear (7)
• 5. At one time, snow leopard released you, I hear (4)
• 6. Supreme Court exacted retribution and hunted for usable material (9)
• 7. American travels without a hint of nausea in Tauric peninsula (6)
• 8. One needs balls to use this field gun (6)
• 14. Father-figure Patrick's royal chair's renovated (9)
• 16. Finally nod and rotate head resulting in comedy (9)
• 17. Explains intimate things (6)
• 18. Considered a piece of jewellery that is dazzling at first (7)
• 20. Confused, Jerome left violent Major General's sleeve (6)
• 21. Highly strung Ogden goes travelling to the Orient (2,4)
• 24. Bury in the English region, to start with (5)
• 25. Fruit used in Nagasaki witchcraft (4)