No 13187, Friday 05 Mar 2021, Incognito

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ACROSS

8   Poets’ name for island in Munger, India (4) ERIN [T]

9   Fishes’ school breaks up after end of tail’s bitten off (5)  COHOS SCHOOl*

10 A police department gets psychedelic drug (4) ACID {A}{CID}

11 Result manipulated in Irish city (6) ULSTER* Province or City?

12 Fake stone plant (8) SHAMROCK {SHAM}{ROCK}

13 Hickey bet voile’s damaged (4,4) LOVE BITE*

15 Find animal occupying alcove regularly (6) LOCATE {aLcO{CAT}vE}

17 Father’s scheme for saint (7) PATRICK {PA}{TRICK}

19 Place for anger? It’s west of Great Britain! (7) IRELAND {IRE}{LAND}

22 Man takes elevated rail-road in the US to private place of worship (6) CHAPEL {CHAP}{EL}

24 Last-minute changes excluding poles is final (8) ULTIMATE {LAsT+MInUTE}*

26 Stuff rug with preparation of real insecticide at first (8) MATERIAL {MAT}{ER{In...e}AL*}

28 Feline swallows a red organ found in the neck (6) LARYNX {L{A}{R}YNX}

30 Throw stopper (4) BUNG [DD]

31 Brown’s attempt to dance (5) TANGO {TAN}{GO}

32 Port plug (4) CORK [DD]

DOWN

1   “Men, a language is initially spoken” (4) ORAL {OR}{A}{La...e}

2   Kelvin’s wrinkled winter clothing, includes a vest, perhaps (8) KNITWEAR {K}{NITWE{A}R*}

3   After tenth month, French king got tax (6) OCTROI {OCT}{ROI}

4   Why is King Edward initially included to produce drink (7) WHISKEY {WHY} over {IS+King+Ed...d} or is it {WHY+IS+King+Ed...d}* with produce as the ANIND

5   Attacker builds sea lairs (8) ASSAILER*

6   Cloth, perhaps, for renovation of FBI car (6) FABRIC*

7   Friend is coming, carrying plate (4) DISC [T]

14 HO AGM organised in town near Belfast (5) OMAGH*

16 Anyway, it’s an article of faith (5) TENET <=>

18 At first sister-in-law returns and resides among Irish people, perhaps, and musicians (8) CELLISTS {CEL{S-I-L<=}TS}

20 Eric’s covered in split milk in funny poem (8) LIMERICK {LIM{ERIC}K*}

21 Throwing a game (7) HURLING [DD]

23 Pimpled German’s promise (6) PLEDGE [T]

25 Fat model gets permit (6) TALLOW {T}{ALLOW}

27 Time to get uniform fever? (4) AGUE {AG{U}E}

29 One goes around circling King-Emperor (4) NERO {NE{R}O*}

Reference List

Elevated railroad in US = EL, Poles = N,S, Red = R, Men = OR, Kelvin = K, King in French = ROI, Model = T, Uniform = U, King = R