9740, Sankalak

Across
1 Mollycoddled, as was little Pamela by editor (8) PAMPERED
5 A small ruse devised to give a guarantee (6) ASSURE
10 Flower that means a great deal to you and me (5) LOTUS
11 Melba, more devious but unforgettable (9) MEMORABLE
12 Lack of proportion shown by Dr. Alan in very cold setting (9)
13 Eskimo (5) INUIT
14 Finding wife in a wood — a twist (5) TWEAK
16 Extinct creature that drove nomads to distraction (8) MASTADON
18 What a guard has to be (8) WATCHOUT
20 Firmly fix, as a newspaper might its correspondent (5) EMBED
24 Abu or Everest, for instance (5) MOUNT
25 Perhaps a tourist looking for spectacles (9) SIGHTSEER
27 For mending a pencil, PA gets a gadget (9) APPLIANCE
28 Modern Pataliputra (5) PATNA
29 Role, as reversed, for a governor (6)
30 One seeking to spill paints around artist (8) ASPIRANT
Down
1 He needs a hand for making forecasts (7) PALMIST
2 Not saying anything about a lawyer prone to change (7)
3 A support for art (5) EASEL
4 In winter miners find fur here (6) ERMINE
6 Table napkin (9) SERVIETTE
7 Free, like Shelley’s Prometheus (7) UNBOUND
8 English football team, one always with weight (7)
9 Protozoa with no fixed form (7)
15 Traditional Hindu warrior (9) KSHATRIYA
17 Way of cooking, usin’ ice, crushed (7) CUISINE
18 Marsupials cut up flying mammals (7)
19 Satchmo’s speciality (7) TRUMPET
21 Meat and a cuppa, a drink for the convalescent (4,3)
22 Inactive daughter chased by crazed matron (7) DORMANT
23 Going back topless or getting out (6)
26 Note about a small part of Indian river (5) TAPTI