Hindu Crossword 9354 solution

Across
 1 Not primary measure of time needed before ray disperses (9)
Ans: secondary
 6 Not happy about the French collation (5)
Ans: salad
 9 Find her to be a sane girl (5)
Ans: agnes
10 Stands up for ace players (9)
Ans: champions
11 Does he take the place of the lodger, when on leave? (10)
Ans: lieutenant
12 Character from the Bible, a Hebrew one (4)
Ans: beth
14 Is to let out, it was not an overstatement (7)
Ans: litotes
15 Record drop of point to determine change of wavelength (7)
Ans: doppler
17 An in charge to request need to use opium as sedative (7)
Ans: codeine
19 The French cater pie with sugar syrup (7)
Ans: treacle
20 Regular traverse of a fixed course (4)
Ans: race
22 Dare bather change into costume that is so worn out? (10)
Ans: threadbare
25 Wealth stored up to cater for rates certain to go wild (9)
Ans: treasures
26 Central heating in Illinois may be like hot dry wind of N. Africa (5)
Ans: chili
27 Exploits that require to be witnessed (5)
Ans: deeds
28 Singing birds (9)
Ans: songsters
Down
 1 Good man totally stable (5)
Ans: stall
 2 Swindler put on trial didn’t plead guilty (9)
Ans: contested
 3 Total noise shattering as the traffic piles up (4,2,4)
Ans: nose to tail
 4 Can’t engineer’s speech have distinctive modes of expression (7)
Ans: accents
 5 Longed to deny listener to be interfered with (7)
Ans: yearned
 6 Drinks in small quantities (4)
Ans: sips
 7 Unattached Englishman out of sorts in Oslo (5)
Ans: loose
 8 Dunderhead is put on charge, but let off (9)
Ans: discharge
13 Add final courses to be found at the back of the book (10)
Ans: appendices
14 The trainee one reprimanded and so wounded (9)
Ans: lacerated
16 Profitable manufacture of vital cure (9)
Ans: lucrative
18 Urges strongly to Rex, not to get shot (7)
Ans:exhorts
19 Not proper to charge boy with disloyalty (7)
Ans:treason
21 Engineer takes in material of several wrinkled fabric (5)
Ans:crepe
23 Some Islamic rulers created unending misery (5)
Ans:emirs
24 Snakes pass around (4)
Ans: asps