No 13705, Tuesday 08 Nov 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

7   Hear irritated bird (4) RHEA*

8   Oddly she lasted, without passing away (9) DEATHLESS*

10 take two more making a dozen (6) TWELVE (10+2)

11 Criminal gets bird having, for starters, unique device estimating height (8) ALTITUDE {AL}{TIT}{Un...e}{De...e}{Es...g}

12 Only two pieces of croissant can be eaten. Believable? (8) CREDIBLE {CRo...t}{EDIBLE}

14 Drones carrying Greek letter and chickpea preparation (6) HUMMUS {HUM{MU}S}

16 Nobleman on eastern ship lacking auditory organ (7) EARLESS {EARL}{E}{SS}

18 Good for pipe (7) ?R?D?C? (Addendum - PRODUCT {PRO}{DUCT} - See comments)

21 Market a bar travelling across South Africa (6) BAZAAR {A+BAR}* over {ZA}

23 Inspiration from a note by American (8) AFFLATUS {A}{F-FLAT}{US}

25 Predict toll free sailing (8) FORETELL*

27 Regular user of drug did act horribly (6) ADDICT*

29 Source of sugar, perhaps, put on hot cooking device for musical composer (9) BEETHOVEN {BEET}{H}{OVEN}

30 Attack and injure male endlessly around university (4) MAUL {MA{U}Le}

DOWN

1   Author's appendage holding a meat preparation (8) SHAWARMA {SHAW}{ARM}{A}

2   Fellow gets everything in season before winter in the US (4) FALL {F}{ALL}

3   Flying weaverbird drops wire softly, for example (6) ADVERB weAVERBirD*Definition by example

4   2 getting Arabian frying equipment initially to make some deep fried food (7) FALAFEL {FAL{Ar...n}{Fr...g}{Eq...t}L}

5   Not this actress Maggie, perhaps (8) THATCHER {THAT}{CHER}

6   Touched soft material (4) FELT [DD]

9   Religious man in Valsad hut (5) SADHU [T]

13 Worried old man giving away quarter for stuffed food (5) DOLMA {OLD+MAn}*

15 Press, for example, part of chrome dial (5) MEDIA [T]

17 Mistaken cheer behind supreme court accompanied with bit of yelling is high pitched (8) SCREECHY {CHEER}*<=>{SC} and {Ye...g}

19 Copper eats egg with sauce in the beginning... Twice... And gets North African dish popular in the Middle East (8) COUSCOUS {C{0}U}{Sa..e}{C{0}U}{Sa..e}

20 Endlessly bake, with some pieces of lard, vanilla dessert (7) BAKLAVA {BAKe}{LArd}{VAn...a}

22 Strangely Mao recruited bachelor boy to make nuclear device (1-4) A-BOMB {MAO+B+B}* (Addendum - {MAO+B}*{B} - See comments)

24 Show off apartment built around centre of Guna (6) FLAUNT {FLA{gUNa}T}

26 Sword held by obese peer (4) EPEE [T]

28 Wet wrinkled diploma without using oil (4) DAMP DiPloMA*

Reference List

Criminal = AL, Eastern = E, Ship = SS, South Africa = ZA, Hot = H, University = U, Fellow = F, Quarter = N(North), Supreme court = SC, Bachelor = B, Boy = B