Running Theme

By Gussalufz
The Hindu Cryptic #13,199, Friday, March 19, 2020
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Exolve Print Notes Jotter Ⓒ 2020 Viresh Ratnakar

Across
1Take off warm Nairobi tunic, finally, after mile one (5)
4So, "Paradise Lost" fails to mention English migrant communities? (9)
9Turn your back on gentle waves circling about (7)
10Insect's key recognition sense contraption, essentially (7)
11Run away with diamonds, hiding in backward country joint (6)
12Girl finished study after coming back and ran (8)
14A piece of cake became a symbol, to some extent (4)
15First in running—in dream run (10)
18"Dissolve rouble!" (call of hard working labourers) (4-6)
19Run, champion, run! (4)
22The most obvious drug embraced by criminal cartels (8)
24They might help with transitions, when heart-throbs get married crossing fifty (6)
26Miles toiled, wasted and bygone (3-4)
27Man, a loser represented me—this loser! (4-3)
28Another night's rest gives one advantages (9)
29Relative speed of light follows Newton's first—that is incontrovertible, ultimately (5)

Down
1Including a couple of degrees in false name is not natural (3-4)
2But his mind was gloomy, regularly, after returning to capital (9)
3Company miscalculates, sounding like bully (6)
4Figures found at art exhibits (4)
5A part of a molecule having one incomplete ring of structure (10)
6Poor way to refer to uprising (8)
7Rather unusually, nine o'clock news starts without an intervening break (3-2)
8Cast doubts on rotating spacecrafts (7)
13Youth party steeped in beer smell (10)
16Loathsome person, say, at liberty to discharge force within limits (2,1,6)
17Some mollusc, or pioneer predator? (8)
18Draws second-rate topless figures (7)
20Her consensus: he returns every now and then for meat (7)
21Broken lens, frames: glasses for free (6)
23Cherry that is rising? Duck! (5)
25Bowlers, possibly hurrying Australian test squad openers (4)