No 14407, Thursday 13 Feb 2025, Incognito

Solution to 27D 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 solve, if not solved by 1 PM.

ACROSS

8   Woman loves commencement of suits in courts (4) WOOS {W}{O}{O}{Su..s}

9   Speak slowly, "Sketch lion's head" (5) DRAWL {DRAW}{Lion}

10 Lido reconstruction yields religious statue (4) IDOL*

11 Gold coin melted does include copper (6) ESCUDO {ES{CU}DO*}

12 Writes, "In other words, scarlet dinghies" (8) REDRAFTS {RED}{RAFTS}

13 Violent Asians capture SS killer (8) ASSASSIN {A{SS}ASISN*}

15 Only carrying pen, with tip of nib missing, without hiding (6) OPENLY {O{PEn}NLY}

17 A variety of frogmen present at mouth of estuary (7) DIVERSE {DIVERS}{Es...y}

19 Religious traveller's public interest litigation? Serious? (7) PILGRIM {PIL}{GRIM}

22 Reach a train, having lost direction, after time (6) ATTAIN {A} and {TrAIN}<=>{T} 

24 Intimate friend's large toe is broken (5,3) ALTER EGO*

26 Sweet air circulates, so to say (2,2,4) AS IT WERE*

28 Doctor unremorseful after leaving sermon? Sorry! (6) RUEFUL UnREmorseFUL*

30 That lady gets nothing for the leading man (4) HERO {HER}{O}

31 Card suit groups (5) CLUBS [DD]

32 Consumes minced sausages releasing a gas (4) USES SaUsagES*

DOWN

1   Works without right kitchen utensils (4) WOKS WOrKS

2   Kiss rather large curate after changing direction (8) OSCULATE {OS}{CU(-r+l)LATE}

3   Nowadays, gangster bosses produce accessories (3-3) ADD-ONS {AD}{DONS}

4   Tramp's tirade after Virginia gets gold (7) VAGRANT {RANT}<=>{VA}{G}

5   Happy garlic-oil sauce doesn't have American flowers (8) GLADIOLI {GLAD}{aIOLI}

6   Trap one tipsy English corsair (6) PIRATE {TRAP+1}*{E}

7   For example, Bordeaux wine (4) PORT [DD]

14 Author's fast (5) SWIFT [DD]

16 Telling stories in bed? (5) LYING [DD]

18 Using wrong tense in front of new church results in punishment (8) SENTENCE {TENSE*}{N}{CE}

20 Stunning ravine ahead of round American (8) GORGEOUS {GORGE}{O}{US}

21 Extract and kill (4,3) TAKE OUT [DD]

23 Writer's god is after gold (6) AUTHOR {THOR}<=>{AU}

25 The iron oxide releases energy to provide propulsion (6) THRUST {THe}{RUST}

27 Carelessly searched wrongly? Drop! (4) S?E? 

29 Fertiliser mentioned in Agriculture Act (4) UREA [T]

Reference List

Woman = W, Time = T, Right = R, Large = OS, Nowadays = AD, Gold = G, American = A, English = E, New = N, Church = CE, Energy = E