No 12882, Friday 13 Mar 2020, Spinner

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ACROSS
1   Ideal doctor patients revere (14) REPRESENTATIVE*
10 Relishes spices without root (5) LOVES cLOVES
11 Dare to reform, adopting measure from the East (9) CHALLENGE {CHA{ELL<=}NGE}
12 Invited to join around fall (8) WELCOMED {WEL{COME}D}
13 Studied bank following trainee model (6) LEARNT {L}{EARN}{T}
15 Slowdown sees drop in supply (10) DEPRESSION*
16 A police wing, one that neutralises basic threats? (4) ACID {A}{CID}
19 Band has broken up after a bit of soul-searching (4) SASH {So...g}{HAS*}
20 Breeds untruths after incomplete review with counsel (10) MULTIPLIES {LIES} after {MULl}{TIP}
23 Weakened sailor feasted with daughter (6) ABATED {AB}{ATE}{D}
25 Places where the stove burns, liquid thickens? (8) KITCHENS*
27 Press covering violent riot killing one in institute (9) INTRODUCE {IN{RiOT*}DUCE}
28 Collect advance around first of August (5) RAISE {R{Au...t}ISE}
29 Calmest chimp on ground gives performance (14) ACCOMPLISHMENT*

DOWN
2   Unending desire to run away with money covers (9) ENVELOPES {ENVy}{ELOPE}{S}
3   With time running out, hit back, getting top spot sewed up (8) RESTORED {REtORTED} over {Spot}
4   Cycle regularly in work out — Mostly very effective! (10) SUCCESSFUL {SU{CyClE}SS}{FULl}
5   Undiluted gin finally put away (4) NEAT {giN}{EAT}
6   “Everything is revolving around energy, friends!” (6) ALLIES {ALL}{I{E}S}
7   Secret meal in leader’s absence (5) INNER dINNER
8   Chosen decathlete runs without funny looking hat (7) ELECTED DECathLETE*
9   Dramatically flew down, getting start of operation moved (6) FLOWED {FLEW+D}* over {Op...n}
14 Chaotic reaction on admitting player, last of coronavirus cases (10) CONTAINERS {CO{N}TAINER*}{c...uS}}
17 Caught rioter misbehaving with one on introduction of new law (9)  CRITERION {C}{RIOTER+1}*{New}
18 In retrospect, rumours spread! (8) SPECTRUM [T]
19 It’s a man’s organised resilience (7) STAMINA*
21 Extremely shady stay order (6) SYSTEM {ShadY}{STEM}
22 One who holds the cards basically oversees rough men’s refinement (6) REFORM {REF}{Ov...s}{Ro..h}{Men}
24 Web is endless in space underneath ceiling (5) ATTIC lATTICe
26 Investor’s decision’s rubbish (4) BULL [DD]

Reference List
Measure = ELL, Trainee = L, Model = T, Sailor = AB, Daughter = D, Money = S, Time = T, Energy = E, Down = D, Player = N(North in Bridge), Caught = C

Dr RKE's TalePiece

A spider's biography

Srivathsan Santhanam (SS) was the ELECTED REPRESENTATIVE of the literary club of NIT, Trichy. He was known for his SUCCESSFUL ACCOMPLISHMENT in word puzzles. He  WELCOMED the chance to INTRODUCE his friends to a wide SPECTRUM of word puzzles. They had until then only been building a BULL like physical STAMINA in the gym, but now they LEARNT to LOVE the mental CHALLENGE that the puzzles posed. The pastime was a good antidote to the DEPRESSION caused by a low CGPA, much better than taking ACID.They would sit in front of their SYSTEMs all night, solving puzzles, fueled by the tea, that FLOWED unendingly from the night KITCHEN in the mess.The exercise RESTORED the confidence in their vocabulary. To RAISE the bar further, SS introduced a game, in which his friends would pick out an ENVELOPE from a CONTAINER, which had one word penciled in. They had to make 3 cryptic clues for that word. The CRITERION was not just the time they took but also the NEAT surface reading and fairness of the wordplay. His ALLIES participated with unABATED enthusiasm. They crowned SS with the title 'The  spINNER', for he had drawn them in to the web of word puzzles.