No 13464, Thursday 27 Jan 2022, Incognito

Solution to 10A 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   Refuse processing by computer, in short, and dance with nothing on? (4) GIGO {GIG}{0} 

9   Instrument turns tuneful, after peacekeepers left (5) FLUTE TunEFUL*

10 The King of Spades went back south to get slippery creatures (4) E?L? (Addendum - EELS {LEE<=}{S} - See comments)

11 Setter got into automobile with a photographic contraption (6) CAMERA {CA{ME}R}{A}

12 Pods bearing edible seeds for insane people (8) NUTCASES [DD]

13 Escort Argentinian president after tea (8) CHAPERON {CHA}{PERON}

15 Setter using oxygen performed experiment at first, producing salt (6) IODIDE {I}{O}{DID}{Ex...t}

17 Scud toy may become subject matter of divorce case, perhaps (7) CUSTODY*

19 Strained relations between USA and USSR when century old secret service returned (4,3) COLD WAR {C}{OLD}{RAW<=}

22 Good man with a lot of paper makes a flower (6) STREAM {ST}{REAM}

24 Parvenus reconstituted start-ups (8) UPSTARTS*

26 Hat Raman threw at plant (8) AMARANTH*

28 Kodava canine which ate nothing (6) COORGI {CO{O}RGI}

30 See 4 Down

31 Quick communication from Eastern Mali was garbled (5) EMAIL {E}{MALI*}

32 Attract backward (4) DRAW<=

DOWN

1   Visitor permit is included in Virginia (4) VISA {V{IS}A}

2   Designed toy phone device used by spymasters to lure (8) HONEYPOT*

3   Romantic entanglement from Anglo French exhibition (6) AFFAIR {A}{F}{FAIR}

4/30  Spooner’s punning clan’s devious scheme (7,4) CUNNING PLAN (~ punning clan to cunning plan)

5   I turn one berserk and get a particle (8) NEUTRINO*

6/16  This is used to send money and order conscription. Would you call this a DD? (6,5) DEMAND DRAFT {DEMAND}{DRAFT} 

7   This, for example, was a clew in days of yore (4) CLUE Definition by example

14 Search around a frequented place (5) HAUNT {H{A}UNT}

16 See 6

18 Spotted tiles used as examples of collapse (8) DOMINOES [CD]

20 Princess gets nuts after removing last bit of shell and stones, perhaps (8) DIAMONDS {DI}{AlMONDS}

21 Aborigine, found by male, hiding behind shrub (7) BUSHMAN {MAN}<=>{BUSH}

23 Making a mistake by beheading a fish (6) ERRING hERRING

25 Agricultural implement obtained by dropping hammer from communist symbol (6) SICKLE {hammer and SICKLE}

27 “Shopping complex,” heard a gangster’s arm candy (4) MOLL (~mall)

29 Great! Butter results in little weight! (4) GRAM {G}{RAM}

Reference List

Peacekeepers = UN, South = S, Century = C, Good man = ST, Eastern = E, Virginia = VA, Anglo French = AF, Princess = DI, Great = G