No 14358, Tuesday 17 Dec 2024, Vidwan

 Solution to 13A 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.
Open for anyone to solve, if not solved by 1 PM

ACROSS

6 Jack, we ridicule via devious intervention by courts! (8,6) JUDICIAL REVIEW {J WE RIDICULE VIA}*

9 Aluminium sheet? That is church wall decoration! (10) ALTARPIECE {AL}{TARP}{IE}{CE}

10 Cold or morbid aliveness basically (4) COMA Acrostics & Lit

11 Master of line and length, Old Rook, bowled at the last (8) LANDLORD {L}{AND}{L}{O}{R}{bowleD}

13 Sluggish to run? Fall back! (6) T?R?I? TORPID {TO}{R}{DIP<} See comments

14 Fall for hard substance, pass with support and ultimately advance to a specialised school (8,7) TRAINING COLLEGE {T(-h+RAIN)ING}{COL}{LEG}{advancE}

16 Piece of equipment, smuggled one out of America (6) CAMERA {AMERiCA}*

17 A form of hostility (8) AVERSION {A}{VERSION}

19 Remove tips of metals and other things (2,2) ET AL {mETALs}

20 Buries next to English art gallery on highway (10) INTERSTATE {INTERS}{TATE}

22 A micro-designer working for a criminal enterprise (9,5) ORGANISED CRIME*

DOWN

1 Fusion, say, sounds like fresh, distinct, revolutionary creation! (7,8) NUCLEAR REACTION {NU {~ NEW}{CLEAR}{CREATION*}

2 One zone in constituency for master (6) WIZARD {W{I}{Z}ARD}

3 Wild plum is boring for auditors (4) SLOE {~SLOW}

4 Disease involves psyche occasionally! That is natural! (8) VISCERAL {pSyChE in VIRAL}

5 Bikini women dethroned king, removing some cut rocks (8,7) SWIMMING COSTUME {S{+W-k}IMMING}{SOME CUT}*

7 I am in favour of passport, one not fake or concoction (13) IMPROVISATION {I'M}{PRO}{VISA}{I NOT}*

8 Was part of campaign to needle coterie? Possibly! (13) ELECTIONEERED*

12 Party till midnight! Mother's philosophy! (5) DOGMA {DO}{niGht}{MA}

15 Good lie about what lies behind parliamentary principles (8) IDEOLOGY {GOOD LIE}*{pa...arY}

18 Stitch using thread basically and closing wound partly (6) SUTURE {Stitch}{Using}{Thread}{injURE} & LIT

21 Sound of disapproval about a job (4) TASK {T{A}SK}

REFERENCE LIST

Jack=J, Aluminium=Al, That is=ie, Church=CE, Line, Length=L, Old=O, Rook=R, Hard=H, One=i, Zone=Z, Women=W, King=K.