No 13010, Monday 10 Aug 2020, Hypatia

Solution to 4D has been deliberately left unsolved and is to be answered only by a non-regular/novice commenter, with proper annotation. Those who have answered earlier in the week, please give others a chance.

ACROSS
8   Cosmetic oil from sweetheart in work area (6) JOJOBA {JO}{JOB}{A} (Correction - {JO{JO}B}{A} - See comments)
9   Doctor No and old fellows switch positions (2,3,3) ON AND OFF {NO}*{AND}{O}{F}{F}
10 Elaborate shelf (5,3) FLESH OUT {SHELF}* [RA]
11 Time worked in Church, reflected one’s upbringing? (6) EMETIC {C{TIME*}E}<=
12 Threatening sibling drinking at home (8) SINISTER {S{IN}ISTER}
13 Bachelor saint abdicates Ashram built for creator (6) BRAHMA {B}{AsHRAM}*
14 She drills teeth from behind model to fill cavity (7) DENTIST {DEN{SIT<=}T}
17 Crooked Es replaced by Is in broadcast message (7) TWISTED TW(-ee+is}ISTED
20 Bird beef (6) GROUSE [DD]
22 It is very hard auditing Telco run dumbly (8) CORUNDUM [T]

25 Initially small children use leftover Plasticine to model (6) SCULPT Acrostic
26 The French annoyed by English game (8) LACROSSE {LA}{CROSS}{E}

27 Learned twisting for pen covers (8) PROFOUND {P{FOR<=}OUND}
28 Soft catcall entertains students (6) MELLOW {ME{LL}OW}

DOWN
1   Cops have essentially put a bit of tincture in bandage (8) POULTICE {PO{pUt}L{Ti...e}ICE}
2   Miniature plant or shrub on Saif's show (6) BONSAI [T]

3   Very old bear dressed for dance (6) CAVORT {CA{V}{O}RT}
4   Unfashionable to restore clothes in fashion (7) ?O?T?R? (Addendum - COUTURE {C{OUT}URE} -See comments)
5   What violinists do during and after a show? (4, 1,3) TAKE A BOW [C&DD]
6   From the side of women, say raised in English times (8) EDGEWAYS {W}{EG}<= in {E}{DAYS}
7   Maintain fine tree in the morning time (6) AFFIRM {A{F}{FIR}M}
15 Realistic, I felt terrible about regret (4,4) TRUE LIFE {I+FELT}* over {RUE}
16 Inspect rumours featuring variety (8) SPECTRUM [T]
18 Paint bird eating small animal (8) EMULSION {EMU}{L{S}ION}
19 Block 0-100 — clued terribly (7) OCCLUDE {0}{C}{CLUED*}
21 Video log (6) RECORD [DD]
23 Fly on Hypatia’s flower arrangement (6) RACEME {RACE}{ME}

24 Not any old masala with Oriental pasta (6) NOODLE {NO}{OLD*}{E}

Reference List
Sweetheart = JO, Area = A, Old = O, Fellow = F, Church = CE, Home = IN, Bachelor = B, Saint = S, The in French = LA, English = E, Student = L, Very = V, Women = W, Fine = F, Small = S, 100 = C, Oriental = E

Dr RKE's TalePiece

A TRUE LIFE experience

I was waiting in my DENTIST’s office for what seemed an eon. Was such a wait responsible for Einstein discovering “Time Dilation”, I wondered.  The receptionist fished out my unenviable RECORD from her computer and said with a PROFOUND air, “Sir, you have missed your last 3 appointments for scaling and re-filling”. Remembering my last root canal job, I shrank with SINISTER fear, to a size smaller than the BONSAI plants near the receptionist’s desk. I guess she sensed my apprehension and to MELLOW the mood, switched on the TV. Pink Panther 2 was playing on a movie channel for the nth time. Inspector Clousseau and Ponton were CAVORTing singing “JO-JO-BA”.. “ho-ho-bah”.

I was waiting for the scene in which the ravishing Sonia (Aishwarya Rai Bachchan) would appear in COUTURE but I was called into the dentist’s room before that moment. He motioned me to the recliner couch and I could sense his TWISTED expression behind his mask, on looking at the pitiful state of my upper molar, even as he peered EDGEWAYS into the dental mirror. He then proceeded to poke the teeth with a sharp probe asking me which tooth hurt the most. I was uttering a groan in reply even before he touched the tooth. My GROUSE with dentists is they expect you to be clear in your communication when you cannot OCCLUDE your open jaw and half of your mouth is numb. He took a drill, hardened by CORUNDUM and proceeded to do the de-scaling. I can AFFIRM that the shrill whine of the motor heard ON-AND-OFF, is just as unbearable as that eerie sensation in your teeth. You are right in guessing that I went through the whole SPECTRUM of the pain scale from light green to deep red.

He then proceeded to FLESH OUT the details of what he planned to do with which teeth. He said things like “EMULSION cast, implantable denture, etc” but the only thing I registered in my EMETIC state was that it was going to cost me a bomb. He asked me to apply an ice POULTICE to the jaw and eat nothing, not even soft NOODLEs, for the next 6 hours. I ran out without even TAKING A BOW. How I wish BRAHMA did not nod off when he SCULPTed my teeth while creating me!