No 13379, Monday 18 Oct 2021, Incognito

Solution to 19A has been deliberately left unsolved and is to be answered only by a non-regular / novice commenter, with proper annotation. Those who have answered earlier in the week, please give others a chance.

ACROSS

8   Food consumed by Alfred Doolittle (4) EDDO [T]

9   Boss’s wonderful; having more wisdom, I hear (10) SUPERVISOR {SUPER}{VISOR}(~wiser)

10 Is rare formation in mountain range in America (6) SIERRA*

11 Settler’s a resident of city in Panama? (8) COLONIST [DD]

12 Designed usual tin vessel used by Nemo (8) NAUTILUS*

14 Wrongly grant money finally for supporting structure (6) GANTRY {GRANT*}{m..eY}

16 Col.’s father’s ship (4) PASS {PA}{SS}

17 Say, “Sin to hide love” (5) VOICE {V{0}ICE}

18 Member of school hiding in Gaddafi’s home (4) FISH [T]

19 Visit local... Drunk? No! (4,2) ?A?L ?N (Addenmun - CALL ON {LOCAL*}{N} - See comments)

21 Hard-working man’s after princess at 51! (8) DILIGENT {GENT}<=>{DI}{L1}

23 Person wearing a couple of wrist-watches or seeing a couple of girls? (3-5) TWO-TIMER [DD]

26 On paper, put down emir leaving dancing marionette (6) NOTATE mAriONETTe*

27 Vanuatu ore used to build decorative architecture (3,7) ART NOUVEAU*

28 Free European and go on (4) RIDE {RID}{E}

DOWN

1   Dad is excited over a small cake in African capital (5,5) ADDIS ABABA {DAD+IS}*{A}{BABA}

2   Old Greek’s distress message about container (8) SOCRATES {SO{CRATE}S}

3   Sir, ale is brewed in country (6) ISRAEL*

4   Classic record by Chip (4) EPIC {EP}{IC}

5   Introduction: Introduction to prototype Luger designed to contain two rounds separately (8) PROLOGUE {Pr...e}{R{O}L{O}GUE*}

6   No gins? Bad contract! (4,2) SIGN ON*

7   Plenty of empty sites in the US (4) LOTS [DD]

13 Saw moved fast around beginning of incision (5) SPIED {SP{In...n}ED}

15 Edit, “Increasing height of sea water, for example” (6,4) RISING TIDE {EDIT}<=

17 Polaveno mouse contains toxin (8) VENOMOUS [T]

18 Excitedly gifts her war-planes! (8) FIGHTERS*

20 Tale re-written before book is hidden (6) LATENT {TALE*}{NT}

22 Place sweet stuff under net for monkey (6) LANGUR {GUR}<=>{LAN}

24 Fight with daughter and minor under care (4) WARD {WAR}{D}

25 Marine feature in Muree forest (4) REEF [T]

Reference List

Ship = SS, No = N, Princess = DI, European = E, Record = EP, Book = NT, Sweet stuff = GUR, Daughter = D