No 14013, Monday 06 Nov 2023, Incognito

 Solution to 30A 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.

Open for anyone to answer, if not solved by 1 PM.

ACROSS

8   Animal captured by millionaire (4) LION [T]

9   Pokes around wheel part (5) SPOKE*

10 Initially, her love note followed by a kiss resulted in deception (4) HOAX {Her}{O}{A}{X}

11 Fantastic UN girl's enticing (6) LURING*

12 Tip to tip width of aircraft obtained by parking inside new awnings (8) WINGSPAN {WINGS{P}AN*}

13 I left material to cover top of night-stand on mother's side (8) MATERNAL {MATER(-i+n)NAL}

15 After midnight, excited moles create clay creatures (6) GOLEMS {niGht}{MOLES*}

17 At first, werewolves consume that lady and survive (7) WEATHER {We...s}{EAT}{HER}

19 Scheme in favour of a type of aircraft engine consuming carbon (7) PROJECT {PRO}{JE{C}T}

22 Setter's operation in-charge is short sighted (6) MYOPIC {MY}{OP}{IC}

24 A rag is twisted twice to produce jelly-like substance (4-4) AGAR-AGAR {A+RAG}*{A+RAG}*

26 Winter precipitation starting to shower now... Before autumn! (8) SNOWFALL {Sh...r}{NOW}{FALL}

28 Pressed one and drone flew (6) IRONED {I}{DRONE*}

30 Still have four left after removing first and last letters from this number (4) ?I?E (Addendum - FIVE {fIVe = IV = FOUR} - See comments)

31 Wrong! Wrong! Cultivated! (5) GROWN*

32 Get rid of bag (4) SACK [DD]

DOWN

1   Officer releases tenant's place (4) LIEU LIEUtenant

2   Indian police department: "Ten injured in event" (8) INCIDENT {IN}{CID}{TEN*}

3   Bad sign contains separate circles in equiangular polygon (6) ISOGON{SIGN}* over {O} and O}

4   Republican Oscar's fine in crash site (7) ROSWELL {R}{O}{SWELL}

5   Green tea prepared for adolescent person (8) TEENAGER*

6   Tool possessed by Ranchi's elite (6) CHISEL [T]

7   Space agency located in Salinas Airport (4) NASA [T]

14 Give up ale in leap year resolution, resulting in mockery (5) APERY {leaP+YEAR}*

16 A little time for tea or coffee? (5) MOCHA {MO}{CHA}

18 Trade old coins (8) EXCHANGE {EX}{CHANGE}

20 Envy Seoul jay's flying (8) JEALOUSY*

21 Boy everyone loves gets new mushroom (7) BALLOON {B}{ALL}{OO}{N}

23 Prisoner of war gets red, rejected cosmetic (6) POWDER {POW}{RED<=}

25 Extraterrestrial beings a fib? No! Start to search... (6) ALIENS {A}{LIE}{N}{Se...h}

27 Brad's unguis (4) NAIL [DD]

29 Engrave part of banquet chair (4) ETCH [T]

Reference List

Kiss = X, Parking = P, Carbon = C, Operation = OP, In-charge = IC, Indian = IN, Republican = R, Oscar = O, Little time = MO, Old = EX, Boy = B, New = N, No = N