No 13602, Thursday 07 Jul 2022, Incognito

Solution to 16D 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   Brandish wand for start of day (4) DAWN* 

9   Greek letter has directions for river (5) RHONE {RHO}{NE}

10 Ripped damaged leotard after lad was expelled (4) TORE lEOTaRd*

11 Pop and Mom go around North American country (6) PANAMA {PA}{NA}{MA}

12 Wolf's expulsion of liquids (8) OUTFLOWS {WOLFS}* [RA]

13 Ace's grid messed up, resulting in ignominy (8) DISGRACE*

15 Incorrectly cites about boy cut into two (6) BISECT {CITES*}<=>{B}

17 John performed first part of activity to produce some kind of yeast (7) CANDIDA {CAN}{DID}{Ac...y}

19 Animal carrying Egyptian god and sticky sweet (7) CARAMEL {CA{RA}MEL}

22 Wrongly said, “At sports venues” (6) STADIA*

24 Erroneously perceived sound from Mr Depp's ex on radio (8) MISHEARD (~ miss heard)

26 Altered toccatas to produce abrupt and disjointed notes (8) STACCATO*

28 Wrongly reappraises, in absence of paper, to give increases in salary (6) RAISES reappRAISES

30 Sign girl is in wash-room? (4) LOGO {LO{G}O}

31 Outsider? A falsehood, no? (5) ALIEN {A}LIE}{N}

32 Ancient Roman church had, in the beginning, a curved support structure (4) ARCH Acrostic

DOWN

1   Information contained in Golconda tablet (4) DATA [T]

2   Swollen green dal is cooked (8) ENLARGED*

3   Spanish navy's weapon is with Aeronautical Development Agency (6) ARMADA {ARM}{ADA}

4   Yankee left settlement with the Spanish military officer (7) COLONEL {COLONy}{EL}

5   Wild beaver carrying hollow root shows a bit of spine (8) VERTEBRA {VE{RooT}EBRA*}

6   Delays constructions meant to house horses (6) STALLS [DD]

7   Staff endlessly wreck building (4) CREW WRECk*

14 Spilling paint is not appropriate (5) INAPT*

16 Encourage revolutionary queen (5) C?E?R (Addendum - CHEER {CHE}{ER} - See comments))

18 Attract ward (4,4) DRAW AWAY {WARD}* [RA]

20 A man consumes rice pudding from the US (8) AMERICAN {A}{M{RICE*}AN}

21 Munitions with National Investigation Agency produce noxious gas (7) AMMONIA {AMMO}{NIA}

23 Medico appearing briefly in Madras Central (6) DOCTOR {maDRas}

25 Jump! Substitute one end of gadget with another and run! (6) SPRINT SPRIN(-g+t)T

27 Consumed potassium also, at first (4) TOOK {K}<=>{TOO}

29 Every idea changes to some extent (4) EACH [T]

Reference List

Directions = N,E, John = CAN, Girl = G, Washroom = LOO, No = N, Yankee = Y, The in Spanish = EL, Queen = ER