No 13129, Saturday 26 Dec 2020, Incognito

 Across

8 Fight with disease in the beginning, in hospital room (4) WARD {WAR}{Disease}

9 Something worth having is found in cassettes (5) ASSET (T)

10 Ex British PM has lost 14 pounds! Happy? (4) GLAD {GLADstone}

11 Draw  small boat (6) SKETCH (DD) {S}{KETCH} See comments

12 Account by clergyman is perfectly correct (8) ACCURATE {AC}{CURATE}

13 Romeo in love with journalist is well protected (8) ARMOURED {A{R}MOUR}{ED}

15 Dal is missing in identical preparation of egg (6) INCITE {IdENTICal*}

17 Sat back in barn and hid supplies (7) STASHED {S{SAT<=}HED}

19 Fires soldier returning with tangled nets around one (7) IGNITES {GI<=}{NETS*} around{I}

22 Short-sighted setter’s small photo covers last part of video (6) MYOPIC {MY}{videO}{PIC}

24 Waylaid American president with Edward (8) AMBUSHED {AM}{BUSH}{ED}

26 Owned up and let in (8) ADMITTED (DD)

28 Barney may be close at hand (6) NEARBY {BARNEY*}

30 Military Engineering Services special dining facility (4) MESS {MES}{S}

31 Went on horse to ring at cowboy show (5) RODEO {RODE}{O}

32 Large boat’s bird (4) LARK {L}{ARK}

Down

1 Support // front? No! (4) BACK (DD)
2 After giving up gin, horrible indigestion issues (8) EDITIONS {inDIgESTION*}
3 Collect gun kept by that lady (6) GATHER {GAT}{HER}
4 International Space Station captures terra firma and terrestrial forms like Midway, Hawaii and Japan (7) ISLANDS {IS{LAND}S}
5 Keeping inventory of just one of a pair of long socks (8) STOCKING (DD)
6 American cigar develops a kind of fungus (6) AGARIC {A}{CIGAR*}
7 Silly to drop right from preliminary document (4) DAFT {DrAFT}
14 Corrupt Terry Mulligan (5) RETRY {TERRY*}
16 Note, including skirt’s leitmotif (5) THEME {T{HEM}E}
18 Badly create alien initially and so on (2,6) ET CETERA {CREATE+ET*}
20 Fixes Britain’s tall structures to some extent (8) INSTALLS (T)
21 Dad, can I mix up yeast? (7) CANDIDA {DAD+CAN+I*}
23 Cleric forces open front of tunic (6) PRIEST {PRIES}{Tunic}
25 Bravo! Jason’s playing musical instruments! (6) BANJOS {B}{JASON*}

27 OCR error, when reading ‘clues’, leading to replacement with “out-standings” (4) DUES  During OCR 'cl' can become 'd', so 'clues' is read as 'dues'
29 What a dog does at tree’s exterior? (4) BARK (DD)

Reference List

 

14 Pounds=Stone, Small=S, Account=Ac, Romeo=R, Journalist=Ed, Soldier=GI, One=I, Setter's=My, American=Am, Edward=Ed, Military Engineering Services=MES, Special=S, Ring=O, Large=L, Gun=Gat, That lady=Her, International Space Station=ISS, American=A, Right=R, Note=Te, Alien initially=ET, Bravo=B

 

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