No 13510, Tuesday 22 Mar 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

7   Quickly stop eating food (4) FAST [DD]

8   Mix gin and tonic, with love, for me (9) INCOGNITO  {GIN+TONIC}*{0}

10 Behind partition, alien makes container to keep money (6) ?A?L?T (Addendum - WALLET {WALL}{ET} - See comments)

11 Evict diver (5,3) DRIVE OUT {DIVER}* [RA]

12 Extraordinarily alter gem to make wire (8) TELEGRAM*

14 Yankee leaves slaughtered turkeys for mature elephant (6) TUSKER {TURKEyS}*

16 After tea, throw ring in vexation (7) CHAGRIN {CHA}{RING*}

18 At zero cost, Zulu queen gets space for cold storage (7) FREEZER {FREE}{Z}{ER}

21 Newly married ladies travel in empty bus (6) BRIDES {Bu{RIDE}S}

23 Period required to supply die metal design (4,4) LEAD TIME*

25 Got some quantity of paper in Air Corps depot initially (8) ACQUIRED {Air}{Co..s}{QUIRE}{De..t}

27 Pet vehicle is in front of eastern ship (6) CARESS {CAR}{E}{SS}

29 Ship red oyster soup (9) DESTROYER*

30 Old attorney general’s edition (4) AGED {AG}{ED}

DOWN

1   A Zionist leader in Tehran wanders in biblical place (8) NAZARETH {N{A}{Zi...t}ARETH*}

2   Basque organisation student and others (2,2) ET AL {ETA}{L}

3   Wrongly resist word used to address nurse or nun (6) SISTER*

4   A rotter is with sweetheart at setter's educational institution (7) ACADEMY {A}{CAD}{swEet}{MY}

5   Shining silver pieces strewn around (8) AGLITTER {AG}{LITTER}

6   Chop spotted cubes? (4) DICE [DD]

9   Love to go wander around university for getting flower part (5) OVULE {OV{U}LE*}

13 Urged English editor to include a couple of girls (5) EGGED {E}{GG}ED}

15 Sugary little thing kept in empty slot (5) SWEET {S{WEE}loT}

17 Purveyors of financial security? Certainly covered in Indian rupees (8) INSURERS {IN}{SURE}{RS}

19 Seen hems transformed into nets? (8) ENMESHES*

20 Gee! Lady may give appreciative look (4,3) GLAD EYE*

22 Ran and practised avoiding horrible pits (5) RACED pRACtisED

24 Air-conditioning cable contract (6) ACCORD {AC}{CORD}

26 Secret police in old place in the Soviet Union (4) USSR {U{SS}R}

28 Harvest rotten pea after middle of March (4) REAP {PEA}*<=>{maRch}

Reference List

Alien = ET, Love = 0, Yankee = Y, Zulu = Z, Queen = ER, Eastern = E, Ship = SS, Edition = ED,  Student = L, University = U, English = E, Editor = ED, Girl = G, Indian = IN, Secret police = SS, Old place = UR