Guardian Quiptic 983 Carpathian

Thank you Carpathian.  Definitions are underlined in the clues.

Across

1 Form of ID personal assistants wear (8)

PASSPORT : PAS(plural of abbrev. for “personal assistant”) + SPORT(to wear;to have on a distinctive item).

6 Church over frozen water is exquisite (6)

CHOICE : CH(abbrev. for “church”) + O(abbrev. for “over” in cricket scores) + ICE(frozen water).

Defn: …, as in “a choice piece of meat”.

9 Rig flag after a time (6)

ATTIRE : TIRE(to flag;to become less energetic) placed after(after) [A + T(abbrev. for “time”) ].

10 Extraordinary antique holds old correspondence (8)

EQUATION : Anagram of(Extraordinary) ANTIQUE containing(holds) O(abbrev. for “old”).

Defn: An expression of equivalence.

11 Send back large piece of material as evidence of work (4,5)

TIME SHEET : Reversal of(… back) EMIT(to send out, as in “the chimney was seen to emit smoke”) + SHEET(a large flat piece of material, metal, say).

Defn: A piece of paper recording the number of hours worked.

13 Vapour left in tree (5)

HAZEL : HAZE(a very fine cloud that obscures due to the presence of vapour, or smoke) + L(abbrev. for “left”).

15 Strong warning not right (6)

POTENT : “portent”(a warning;an omen that a major or disastrous event is likely to happen) minus(not) “r”(abbrev. for “right”).

17 Defy revolting sister (6)

RESIST : Anagram of(revolting) SISTER.

18 Park official called queen (6)

RANGER : RANG(called on the phone) + ER(abbrev. for “Elizabeth Regina”, the UK queen).

19 Stop first of guards boarding ship (6)

LINGER : 1st letter of(first of) “guards” contained in(boarding) LINER(a luxurious ocean-going passenger ship).

Defn: Having stopped, to stay in a place longer than necessary.

21 Fed up and embarrassed by body odour (5)

BORED : RED(flushed, as with the face of an embarrassed person) placed after(by) BO(abbrev. for “body odour”).

22 Goes with baked clay slab for revolutionary entrance feature (9)

TURNSTILE : TURNS(goes;the times for action which come in due rotation to each participant in, say, a game) + TILE(a baked clay slab, for, well, tiling a floor, a wall, or a roof).

The old revolutionary ones; and the revolutionary non-revolutionary ones:

 

25 Confirm V&A top at tastefully exhibiting heads (8)

VALIDATE : V,A(V&A) + LID(the top cover put over or screwed on or fixed on to a container) + 1st letters, respectively, of(… heads) “at tastefully exhibiting“.

26 Minute holding odd bits of gold causing stinging sensation (6)

TINGLY : TINY(minute;extremely small) containing(holding) 1st and 3rd letters of(odd bits of) “gold“.

28 Adorn resting place with Eastern cutwork’s edging (6)

BEDECK : BED(a resting place) plus(with) E(abbrev. for “Eastern”) + 1st and last letters of(…’s edging) “cutwork“.

29 Avoid gallery displaying fake (8)

MISSTATE : MISS(to avoid;to escape, as in “stay in to miss the crowds”) + TATE(the art gallery in London).

Defn: To misrepresent;to say a fake thing.

Down

2 Rear seen in taffeta, regularly (3)

AFT : 2nd, 4th and 6th letters of(seen in …, regularly) “taffeta“.

3 Pleasant sounding set of furniture (5)

SUITE : Homophone of(… sounding) “sweet”(pleasant;nice, as in “a sweet young thing”).

4 Generous old writer delivered (4-6)

OPEN-HANDED : O(abbrev. for “old”) + PEN(what one writes with) + HANDED(delivered to;given from one person to another).

5 Support at sea abounded (6)

TEEMED : TEE(support for one’s golf ball) plus(at) MED(short for the Mediterranean Sea).

6 Leaders of cardiological radiology unit x-rayed heart (4)

CRUX : 1st letters, respectively, of(Leaders of) “cardiological radiology unit x-rayed“.

7 Banning unpopular Los Angeles faction (9)

OUTLAWING : OUT(unpopular;out of fashion) + LA(abbrev. for the city of Los Angeles) + WING(a faction;a group within an organisation having particular views or function).

8 Unruly troll chose to embrace energy level many would seek to lower (11)

CHOLESTEROL : Anagram of(Unruly) TROLL CHOSE containing(to embrace) E(symbol for “energy”, in phyics).

Defn: …, but only the level of the bad form of the substance.

12 I am somebody with a note to copy (11)

IMPERSONATE : I’M(contraction of “I am”) + PERSON(somebody;a body) plus(with) A + TE(ti;in music, the syllable representing the seventh note of a major scale).

… or I copy somebody’s notes:

14 Chooses motif on a publication for teachers (10)

DESIGNATES : DESIGN(a motif;a decorative pattern as in “material with a psychedelic design”) placed above(on, in a down clue) + A + TES(formerly known as the Times Educational Supplement, a weekly publication aimed at schoolteachers in the UK).

16 Proposal getting viewers, reportedly, to soften (9)

TENDERISE : TENDER(a formal proposal to provide goods and services under stated terms and conditions) + homophone of(…, reportedly) “eyes”(what you view with;viewers).

20 Take drugs inside silent public building (6)

MUSEUM : USE(to regularly take drugs) contained in(inside) MUM(silent;mute).

23 Principle held to be true either way (5)

TENET : Palindromic(to be true either way).

24 Raise flag (4)

JACK : Double defn: 1st: … with, well, a jack.

27 Fate embraced by all others (3)

LOT : Hidden in(embraced by) “all others“.

Defn: One’s destiny.