No 12329, Tuesday 29 May 2018, Incognito

ACROSS
8   Metal in the possession of Alistair O'Neill (4) IRON [T]
9   Gasps, "Trousers!" (5) PANTS [DD]
10 Indian fried bread from town in Odisha (4) PURI [DD]
11 Box vehicle has 1000 kg (6) CARTON {CAR}{TON}
12 People from Middle East who don’t change even when Fleming goes away (8) ARABIANS ARABianS
13 Virginia first drove around animal and went away hurriedly (8) VAMOOSED {VA}{MOOSE}{Dr..e}
15 Brother Anderson gets some liquor (6) BRANDY {BR}{ANDY}
17 Success comes before Whiskey and Yankee (7) VICTORY [DD] (Addendum - {VICTOR}{Y} - See comments)
19 Liquor all consumed cautiously at first by circle in front of Head Office (7) ALCOHOL {AL{Co...d}{O}{HO}L}
22 Juggling hats, mummy, can cause a disease (6) ASTHMA {HATS}*{MA}
24 Activate soldiers in east-north-east after engineers return (8) ENERGISE {{EN{RE<=}{GIS}E}
26 Goon's gin was tampered — resulted in things happening (6-2) GOINGS-ON*
28 Come in again, after losing first election and become a tenant (6) RENTER REeNTER
30 Japanese plane that amounted to nothing (4) ZERO [DD]

31 Destroy special lubricant (5) SPOIL {SP}{OIL}
32 Stop and shoot (4) STEM [DD]

DOWN
1   Extent of 100 square metres near the source of Avon (4) AREA {ARE}{Avon}
2   Adjusted trade discount — without dread — to get price per piece (4,4) UNIT COST {Trade+dISCOUNT}*
3   Porcupines seem to have many of these backbones (6) SPINES [DD]
4   Drawback in our ships towards the centre (7) INWARDS {DRAW<=} in {INS}
5   Transcontinental city mentioned in Afghanistan bulletins (8) ISTANBUL [T]
6   Operation Timothy accepted in the beginning to create a typeface (6) OPTIMA {OP}{TIM}{Ac...d}
7   Bird joining Martin in writing legendary grammar book? (4) WREN [DD]
14 Soda was sprinkled around one to bid goodbye to Spaniard (5) ADIOS {AD{1}OS*}
16 Discards small amounts of liquid (5) DROPS [DD]
18 Appraise once again whether chumps can follow religious education before Sabbath (8) REASSESS {RE}{ASSES}{S}
20 Co-ordinate, without energy, with model musician (8) ORGANIST {ORGANISe}{T}
21 Sheds thin tops without pressure (4-3) LEAN-TOS {LEAN}{TOpS}
23 Horse cart's handsome after some dust and earth were removed (6) HANSOM HANdSOMe
25 Strangely, strange yielder yielded penny (6) EERILY YIELdER*
27 Page opposite the editorial contains manufactured dope (2-2) OP-ED*
29 Jug found in breweries (4) EWER [T]

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