Hacky

By Gussalufz
The Hindu Cryptic #13,172, Tuesday, February 16, 2021
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Exolve Print Notes Jotter Ⓒ 2020 Viresh Ratnakar

Across
1Extremely rough translation of Socrates (8)
5Workplace no longer using internal combustion engine (6)
9Tommy's secret (7)
10They might be keeping tabs on all singles, etc., about to get into cross-dressing (7)
11A broken pen and a lack of inspiration (5)
12Lift operator crushed ... Om Shanti (8)
13Saved a little chap getting hurt (6)
14Vehicles of love-laden, excited escorts (8)
18New listeners: oddly, it'd be one flank of a horse or a car? (8)
20Come home from metro station, rushing briskly and taking only seconds (6)
23Having the capacity to live without a drop of refreshing fluid (8)
25Rude to switch sides for status (5)
27Trying a sour rum (7)
28File away any rough chips, helping insure very even openings (7)
29In poor taste to have ministry ultimately moving back to some coal plant production (3,3)
30Husband under-prepared; daughter and son get centuries (8)

Down
1A picnic arranged around two pieces of sandwiched essence of chillies (9)
2Coin tossed after many denials, essentially, of a particular charge (7)
3Sailors from a great distance taken in by soothsayers (9)
4Look at the rage! (6)
6Bob regularly rejected team on left (5)
7Repeat attire accidentally worn by me at last (7)
8Different sizes under discussion (4)
10Replacement of wife for new betrayer (6)
15Ice-cold A.I. replaced an organic substance found in plants and animals (5,4)
16Creative artists' plea for help involving messy gents room for starters! (9)
17Homes in which walls of blackwood are swapped for bricks (6)
19College Fashion Day came! (7)
21Nuke going off over gangster Gussalufz opposed? (7)
22When you relive Javed's shot getting cup, limitlessly (4,2)
24Images of tragic onslaughts (5)
26Turn left and feminine! Game? (4)