No 13682, Tuesday 11 Oct 2022, Incognito

Solution to 18A 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   Relaxation found in forests (4) REST [T]

9   Erroneous Korean list for transport ships (3,7) OIL TANKERS*

10 Husband leaves Thai wife a new island (6) TAIWAN {ThAI}{W}{A}{N}

11 Settle: Infants see everything at first (8) COLONISE {COLON}{In...s}{See}{Ev...g}

12 Reformed shrew loves beginning of date in Robin Hood's forest? (8) SHERWOOD {SHREW*}{00}{Date}

14 Festival in overseas territory (6) EASTER [T]

16 Bird is being insanely silly in the beginning (4) IBIS Acrostic

17 Require women soldiers (5) WANTS {W}{ANTS}

18 Omit small nap (4) S?I?  (Addendum - SKIP   {S}{KIP} - See comments)

19 Abandons plant parts (6) LEAVES [DD}

21 Do a dry run on corpse carrier (8) REHEARSE {RE}{HEARSE}

23 Put together animal sign, after removing tail (8) ASSEMBLE {ASS}{EMBLEm}

26 Three parts each of milk ordered for aristocratic address (6) MILORD {MILk}{ORDe..d}

27 Dismiss Enrolled Nurse (General) in English emergency relief vehicle (4,6) FIRE ENGINE {FIRE}{EN}{G}{IN}{E}

28 Cry, little prince (4) WEEP {WEE}{P}

DOWN

1   German piece of furniture carrying tea? It can be removed... (10) DETACHABLE {DE}{TA{CHA}BLE}

2   Attendants' note: Part of hospital is on board ship (8) STEWARDS {S{TE}{WARD}S}

3   Enter Santo Domingo wrongly after getting rid of nomads (2,4) GO INTO {sanTO+domINGO}*

4   Coalition's book on Line of Control (4) BLOC {B}{LOC}

5   Exciting US travel for jumpers (8) VAULTERS*

6   Horribly sunk king and small, smelly animals (6) SKUNKS {SUNK}*{K}{S}

7   Initial attack on Royal Mail Service to get weapons (4) ARMS {At...k}{RMS}

13 Benefactor's name mentioned in portal (5) DONOR {DO{N}OR}

15 English girl gets sign for messengers (10) EMISSARIES {E}{MISS}{ARIES}

17 How Ibsen broke forked part of a bird? (8) WISHBONE*

18 After commencement of supper, Wolfram permits gulps (8) SWALLOWS {Su...r}{W}{ALLOWS}

20 Saw and weed lying about after 6 (6) VIEWED {WEED}*<=>{VI}

22 Radio operator and setter gets right tool (6) HAMMER {HAM}{ME}{R}

24 VIPs return for flashily dressed guy of doubtful morality (4) SPIV<=

25 Large lake in Kaveri estuary (4) ERIE [T]

Reference List

Husband = H, Wife = W, New = N, Women = W, On = RE, Dismiss = FIRE, Enrolled Nurse = EN, General = G, English = E, Prince = P, German = DE, Note = TE, Ship = SS, Book = B, King = K, Small = S, Name = N, Wolfram = W, Radio operator = HAM, Right = R