No 14170, Thursday 09 May 2024, Incognito

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ACROSS

8   What one might see on top of its twin in this clue number... Nothing! (4) ZERO (o on top of o Looks like) 8

9   Won't Goths go crazy capturing small abandoned settlements? (5,5) GHOST TOWNS {WONT+GOTHS}* over {S}

10 Abandons things that fall in fall and goes away (6) LEAVES [MD]

11 Enacts it wrongly and blinks (8) NICTATES*

12 Sir, organ is manufactured for army settlement (8) GARRISON*

14 Six footer found in mountain sector (6) INSECT [T]

16 Succeed taking energy drink (4) WINE {WIN}{E}

17 Favourite queen's saint (5) PETER {PET}{ER}

18 Spoil king's brand (4) MARK {MAR}{K}

19 Discard rivets removed from damaged convertibles collectively (2,4) EN BLOC CONvertiBLEs* 

21 Most tasty pastry finally upset tummies (8) YUMMIEST {p...rY}{TUMMIES*}

23 Tagged boy hugging beautiful girl (8) LABELLED {LA{BELLE}D}

26 Run away with ale preparation that is artificial (6) UNREAL {RUN*}{ALE*}

27 Street animal playing games plans (10) STRATAGEMS {ST}{RAT}{GAMES*}

28 Wrongly pass snakes (4) ASPS*

DOWN

1   Disclosure: "Kinsman consumes half portion of veal" (10) REVELATION {RE{VEal}LATION}

2   Talk against poetry (8) CONVERSE {CON}{VERSE}

3   Exports, for example, defective sets (6) EGESTS {EG}{SETS*}

4   Juliet and Naira go around old hotel's toilet (4) JOHN {J}{O}{H}{N}

5   Crumpled sticker affixed around job centre says "More Stout!" (8) STOCKIER {ST{jOb}CKIER*}

6   In olden times, Italians building manors (6) ROMANS*

7   Joint lost? Missing from skeleton after collapse! (4) KNEE sKElEtoN*

13 A teetotaller in New York is well dressed (5) NATTY {N{A}{TT}Y}

15 Cheating gamblers, perhaps, by hiding broken shard in fishes (4-6) CARD-SHARPS {C{SHARD*}ARPS}

17 Softly, auricle is twisted! Odd! (8) PECULIAR {P}{AURICLE*}

18 Radio man may build key path (4,4) MAIN ROAD*

20 Bruce's method to get room for manoeuvre (6) LEEWAY {LEE}{WAY}

22 Some US concoction is a dessert (6) MOUSSE*

24 Pretends ancestors (not Norse) roamed around (4) ACTS AnCeSTors*

25 Colouring materials found in Irrawady estuary (4) DYES [T]

Reference List

Small = S, Energy = E, Queen = ER, King = K, Street = ST, Juliet = J, Naira = N, Old = O, Hotel = H, Teetotaller = TT, Softly = P