No 14379, Friday 10 Jan 2024, Incognito

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ACROSS

7   Heal mongrel with epilepsy at first (4)

8   King carelessly relaxed around one (9)

10 Students returned. That's a mistake (4,2)

11 Pulling 20 things distributed around first of October with love (8)

12 Extraordinarily keen to carry flower and fuel (8)

14 Hidden shooter's cut in service without fault (6)

16 Complain about bad tune for a hundred years (7)

18 Exceedingly good or exceedingly bad object from part of chain in church road (7)

21 Governor's at first half of rapids (6)

23 Limit on princess leaving district (8)

25 Arranging and serving grog in U.P. (8)

27 Wisecrack about minor offence (6)

29 Geographical sketch left, bearing flea jumping around Canadian symbol (5-4)

30 See! John is with king! (4)

DOWN

1   Use belly dance to get a piece of candy (5-3)

2   Cry, "Little power" (4)

3   Processed image covering park shows part of target area (6)

4   Excitedly fed. European sat and dined sumptuously. (7)

5   Caruso goes around the Spanish merry-go-round (8)

6   Journalist meditates in absence of mates (4)

9   Distance covered and managed to get keys (5)

13 Route, possibly the type of road skirting town (5)

15 The sort of man you feed in dinners (5)

17 Salespersons carrying flat slate piece can be cold-blooded creatures (8)

19 Spanish truck initially carries goods transported for French food source (8)

20 Big cat carrying girl goes around right mechanism activating camera trap (7)

22 Gold from Australia? Curious! (5)

24 Mistakenly set RAF to attack from aircraft (6)

26 Irritated puss gets employer of mailman in America (1,1,1,1)

28 Powder used in hospital clinic (4)