No 13712, Wednesday 16 Nov 2022, Vidwan

Solution to 28A 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

1   Timeless stuff! Leader of liberals and his strange modern Indian lingo! (8) HINGLISH {tHING}{Li...s}{HIS*}

6   Dumping the starter, rush for the hot main course (5) CURRY sCURRY

10 Basic assumptions made by founders of schools, say (5,10) FIRST PRINCIPLES (~ first principals)

12 Join on promotion day (3) ADD {AD}{D}

13 Inefficiencies of one stupid teen in action (11) INEPTITUDES {I}{STUPID+TEEN}*

16 Doctor caught consuming cold drink (7) DRAUGHT {DR}{cAUGHT}

17 July's session features one of the American Civil War heroes (7) ULYSSES [T]

20 UK Bank ATM terminal upended inside resort (7) NATWEST {N{AT(m to w)W}EST}

22 Time not available? Grabs an Indian dress for Queen (7) TSARINA {T}{SARI}{NA}

24 The smart CEO created device to measure rate of progress (11) TACHOMETERS*

27 Time consuming effort to get cream (3) OIL tOIL

28 Song not yet set into notes by a composer? Something like 'i' (9,6) I?A?I?ARY ?U?B?R (Addendum - IMAGINARY NUMBER [DD] )

31 Fate of King Rama - struggles (5) KARMA {K}{RAMA*}

32 Relishes cold shack with half-chutes (8) CHUTNEYS {C}{HUT}{chimNEYS}

DOWN

2   Shining one, royal couple and a princess mostly ahead of time (9) IRRADIANT {1}{RR}{A}{DIANa}{T}

3   Tax on piece of jewellery and dress worn by strip teasers (1-6) G-STRING {GST}{RING}

4   Some ship records carrying trademark for example (3) IPR [T]

5   People from China are mostly helpful (3) HAN HANdy

6   Cheap neighbour, almost regularly in tizzy (7) CHINTZY {CHINa}{TiZzY}

7   Are you guided or controlled? (5) RULED {R}{U}{LED}

8   Approvals seen in eyes especially (5) YESES [T]

9   Switch positions intermittently (3,3,2) OFF AND ON  [DD]

11 Devil starts to implement master plan (3) IMP Acrostic 

14 Allow this worthy male fancy for little earthy women! (7) ENTITLE Anno pending (Addendum - {ENTITLE+WORTHY+MALE}*=LITTlE earthy womEN

15 Steward damaged iron during start of a hole (7) TRUSTEE {T{RUST}EE} 

18 Spooner's person delivering goods (edible protein-rich seed) for serviceman (6,3) SAILOR BOY (~ bailer soy to sailor boy)

19 Nobody has short shopping centre forays regularly (5,3) SMALL FRY  {'S}{MALL}{FoRaYs} 

21 Master returned, ate bread and some steamy stuff (7) EROTICA {ACE}<= over {ROTI}

23 City of Nassau rebuilt with love (7) ASSOUAN {NASSAU+O}*

24 Opening time for Conservative figure (5) THINK (-c+t)THINK

25 Professor's cold and hot style (5) CHAIR {C}{H}{AIR}

26 No banks look at a sailor (3) TAR  sTARe

29 Part of polar circle (3) ARC [T]  Semi&lit

30 Unknown universal love bridges people (3) YOU {Y}{U} over {0}

Reference List

Time = T, Promotion = AD, Day = D, Cold = C, Not available = NA, King = K, Royal = R, Start of a hole = TEE, Conservative = C, Hot = H, Unknown = Y,  Universal = U, Love = 0