Across
1 To reveal faults in lift (8) ELEVATOR
5 Rides roughly to catch student with turtle (6)
9 Pro admen managed to mention prominent persons (4-4) NAME-DROP
10 Small like the Kalpakkam plant? (6) ATOMIC
12 Volume measure for Indian river (4) SONE
13 Shop annexe remodelled for ancient philosopher (10)
15 State a lie goes out of estrangement (6)
17 Ancient people some police nicely escort (5) INCAS
20 Examinations of ethical principles don’t start (5) ORALS
21 Sudden movement of UP brat (6) ABRUPT
24 If it is not sharp, it won’t be cutting (5-5) KNIFE-POINT
27 Third move to complete in athletics (4) JUMP
29 Shrink with band in church (6) CRINGE
30 As a pupil, this one has a long way to go (8) BEGINNER
31 Of speech sounds of worker and boy (6) SONANT
32 Nice, real display of trust (8) RELIANCE
Down
1 He sounds serious (6) ERNEST
2 Fur? Um… it belongs to me (6) ERMINE
3 One can be helpful in revealing the heart of a girl (4) AIDA
4 Round the area there’s gas (5) OZONE
6 Closer to the door? (5)
7 Command Act 2 needs to be restructured (8) COMEBACK?
8 It is suitable for seedy development (4,4)
11 You have better prospects if you turn it (6) CAREER?
14 Forms of chocolate? (4) BARS?
16 One after another fighting? (2,1,3) IN A ROW
17 One politician’s brats (4) IMPS
18 Why a football player takes part in the game, perhaps (3,5) FOR KICKS
19 One from Chennai is a spy skirting the head of ministry followed by a Scot (8) TAMILIAN
22 Introduce light? (4,2) TURN ON
23 Criticism raised among the Secret Service by the head of espionage is meagre (6) SPARSE
25 Nigel’s broken marbles (5) ELGIN
26 Clenched fist shown at last by one woman (5) NIECE?
28 Girl takes off without civil service (4)
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26 Clenched fist shown at last by one woman (5)
This is NIEVE, which breaks up as N (last mletter of 'shown'), I (one), EVE (woman).
The rest I will leave to your regular visitors.
across 13: xenophanes
down 6: latch
11a needs to be revised.
7dn too! Sure you can see the clever wordplay.
Came here through Chaturvasi's reference. Nice site you have going!
The remaining ones:
5a: SLIDER [L insider anag. of RIDES]
15a: NATION ['a lie' subtracted from alieNATION]
17a: ICENI [hidden word]
13d: AIDE [the heart of mAIDEn]
7d: DOMINEER [act=DO plus anag. of ERMINE]
11d: CORNER [from the phrase 'turn a corner']
28d: MIMI [CS removed from MIMIcs]
anokha, you may or may not know that Shuchi has a good blog herself;
http://www.crosswordunclued.com/
There one can find an analysis of Gridman's lattices and much else.
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