No 14462, Friday 18 Apr 2025, Incognito

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ACROSS

1   Look at company with objectives... "To manufacture railway engines" (11) LOCOMOTIVES {LO}{CO}{MOTIVES}

9   Planet with hot swamp (5) MARSH {MARS}{H}

10 Countryman spreading rice around animal (9) ICELANDER {IC{ELAND}ER*}

11 Show previous inhibition in absence of Indian (10) EXHIBITION {EX}{inHIBITION}

12 British order confiscating old instrument (4) OBOE {OB{O}E}

13 Own advertisement at premier tech institute (5) ADMIT {AD}{MIT}

15 Last taste-maker (4,4)  ROCK SALT {LAST}* [RA]

17 John may be found in this part of the boat, perhaps? (4,4) POOP DECK {POOP}{DECK}

19 Place request for arrangement (5) ORDER [DD]

22 Operation aboard ship to produce carrots (4) SOPS {S{OP}S}

23 Plant input made from sterile fir (10) FERTILISER*

26 Extraordinarily quiet alien retiring after starting to exhibit temper. That's manners... (9) ETIQUETTE {QUIET*}{ET<=}<=>{Ex...t}{Te...r}

27 After end of road, turn east at junction and start singing songs for two (5) DUETS {roaD}{U}{E}{T}{Si...g}

28 Once daddy, now mummy! It's clear! (11) TRANSPARENT {TRANS PARENT}

DOWN

1   Student support for tree (5) LARCH {L}{ARCH}

2   Lived with mixed gender group accepting regular usage (9) COHABITED {COED} over {HABIT}

3   Share short moment with horrible yeti (6) MOIETY {MO}{YETI*}

4   Quiver! Lot more can be wrong! (7) TREMOLO*

5   Partially revealed meat (4) VEAL [T]

6   So a bidder ordered buffet (9) SIDEBOARD*

7   Obama is confused about oriental organism (6) AMOEBA {AMO{E}BA*}

8   Clergyman snoops at end of feast (6) PRIEST {PRIES}{f..sT}

14 Top motion about debatable issue (4,5) MOOT POINT*

16 Ken's information (9) KNOWLEDGE [DD]

17 Tense journalist probably did this after he copied (6) PASTED {PAST}{ED}

18 Makes boxes containing ecstasy (7) CREATES {CR{E}ATES}

20 Most infrequent adjustment of rates around end of September (6) RAREST {RA{s...eR}EST*}

21 Greek goddess's then protected by American adult (6) ATHENA {A}{THEN}{A}

24 Sex with excited American teenager primarily produces this secretion (5) SWEAT Acrostic

25 VAT on a musical instrument (4) TUBA {TUB}{A}

Reference List

Look = LO, Hot = H, Old = O, Advertisement = AD, Ship = SS, Alien = ET, Turn = U, East = E, Junction = T, Student = L, Oriental = E, Ecstasy = E, American = A, Adult = A