No 13343, Friday 03 Sep 2021, Incognito

RULES FOR POSTING COMMENTS ON FRIDAYS ONLY

All those who are not regular commenters but who are rookie commenters or silent followers of the blog are requested to post answers with annotations in the comments section. In your own interest please avoid looking up the answers from the interactive version. Don't hesitate to post your annotations, in case you make a mistake in the annotation someone will correct it with the right annotation.

PLEASE NOTE, SOLUTIONS WITHOUT ATTEMPTING THE ANNOTATIONS WILL BE DELETED

Each commenter is requested to post only 5 answers thereby giving others also a chance to participate. Please provide all your answers in one comment.

Regular solvers/Veterans can post 1 answer each, but after 11 AM only

Thanks for the response, here's the regular blog.

ACROSS

8   Cost of travelling long distance with Head of Electronics (4) FARE {FAR}{El...s}

9   Tests old flame in front of a short young lady (5) EXAMS {EX}{A}{MS}

10 American edition’s second hand (4) USED {US}{ED}

11 Badly incites after losing one to crime (6) INCEST {INCiTES}*

12 After vehicle is returned, monarch’s keeping tabs on movement (8) TRACKING {CART<=}{KING}

13 Number in the next block (8) FOURTEEN Definition by example

15 Please, in Germany, with right type of beer (6) BITTER {BITTE}{R}

17 Wrongly take tablet before time (7) PILLAGE {PILL}{AGE}

19 Alabama soldier has a Catholic yearbook (7) ALMANAC {AL}{MAN}{A}{C}

22 Nearer shutter (6) CLOSER [DD]

24 Predicted lot of red unusually (8) FORETOLD*

26 Two consecutive letters about a president and controversial monk (8) RASPUTIN {R}{A}{S}{PUTIN}

28 Place to keep boats in Myanmar (in Ayeyarwady) (6) MARINA [T]

30 At first, brother managed and ground husk (4) BRAN {Br...r}{RAN}

31 Throw out as part of massive victory (5) EVICT [T]

32 Formulate formulations without formalin? Means “Same as above”! (4) OUST formUlaTiOnS* (OUST = EVICT as in 31A above)

DOWN

1   Shed boy ran wildly (4) BARN {B}{RAN*}

2   Postponement following mistake in agreement (8) DEFERRAL {DE{F}{ERR}AL}

3   Recent development in core area (6) CENTRE*

4   Massachusetts Republican: “Can I drink?” (7) MARTINI {MA}{R}{TIN}{I}

5   To some extent, Pakistan bullies Constantinople (8) ISTANBUL [T]

6   Weapon made by space technology promoter and alien (6) MUSKET {MUSK}{ET}

7   Denote average (4) MEAN [DD]

14 Bay window in Mussoorie lodge (5) ORIEL [T]

16 Travelling around India, male’s communication via Internet (1-4) E-MAIL {I+MALE}*

18 Using wire, strangulates targets walking around centre of Vancouver (8) GAROTTES {GAR{v..cOu..r}TTES*}

20 Wager amount with Moor returning to foyer (8) ANTEROOM {ANTE}{MOOR<=}

21 Swine going around moor with Newton gets old German money (7) PFENNIG {P{FEN}{N}IG}

23 Consume wine without lying (6) SUPINE {SUP}{wINE}

25 Far out meteor splits (6) REMOTE*

27 Australian god’s ambience (4) AURA {AU}{RA}

29 Leading members of new environment study tour create avian accommodation (4) NEST Acrostic

Reference List

Old flame = EX, Edition = ED, Right = R, Catholic = C, Boy = B, Following = F, Republican = R, Alien = ET, India = I, Newton = N, With = W, Australian = AU