No 14172, Saturday 11 May 2024, Incognito

ACROSS

8   Carry animal (4) BEAR [DD]

9   Lenin wants extraordinary game (4,6) LAWN TENNIS*

10 Porridge cooler (6) PRISON [DD]

11 Carelessly wrote: Supreme Court has intelligence agency's illuminating device (8) SCRAWLED {SC}{RAW}{LED}

12 Helped idiot first, then journalist (8) ASSISTED {ASS}{1ST}{ED}

14 List of mistakes traitor committed in long period of time (6) ERRATA {ER{RAT}A}

16 Tight fitting arms? Rejected! (4) SNUG<=

17 Legendary female's warning device (5) SIREN [DD]

18 Short army officer's ship (4) BRIG [DD]

19 Wrong stance for climbing (6) ASCENT*

21 She clued wrongly for 'timetable' (8) SCHEDULE*

23 Perhaps, blind person from Italian city (8) VENETIAN [DD]

26 Bird sitting on Chinese spanner (6) WRENCH {WREN}{CH}

27 Take more money that merited for fleece (10) OVERCHARGE [CD]

28 Thanks! Thanks again! Goodbye! (2-2) TA-TA {TA}{TA}

DOWN

1   Republican takes umbrage and submits petition (10) REPRESENTS {REP}{RESENTS}

2   Urgent! It is decreasing! (8) PRESSING [DD]

3   Scheme with alien for Earth, for example (6) PLANET {PLAN}{ET}

4   Has title to sow walking around middle of ranch (4) OWNS {OW{raNch}S*}

5   Operator consumes tail of last fish (8) STURGEON {S{lasT}URGEON}

6   After loss of temperature, mix water with a couple of poles to get solution (6) ANSWER {WAtER+NS}* 

7   Note: Church creatures (4) MICE {MI}{CE}

13 Day, for example, in Abbottabad or Islamabad (5) DORIS [T]

15 In Chennai locality, Tamil leader mentioned instead of name in three copies (10) TRIPLICATE TRIPLICA(-n+t)TE How many here know the Tamil name of Triplicane?

17 How an intoxicated person may take seat and refuse to move? (3,5) SIT TIGHT [DD]

18 Wildly stabbed around heart of model to get unrecoverable dues (3,5) BAD DEBTS {STABBED}* over {moDel}

20 Old dear builds portico (6) EXEDRA {EX}{DEAR*}

22 That lady swallowed a bird? It's a stupid mistake! (6) HOWLER {H{OWL}ER}

24 English victory is hollow... results in jealousy (4) ENVY {EN}{Vi...rY}

25 Standard type of gate fixed to rear end of tram (4) NORM {NOR}{traM}

Reference List

Supreme Court = SC, Journalist = ED, Chinese = CH, Thanks = TA, Alien = ET, Poles = N,S, Note = MI, Church = CH, Name = N, Old = EX, English = EN, Gate = NOR