No 14528, Friday 04 Jul 2025, Incognito

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ACROSS

7   Carry in vehicle... Piece of cake, right? (4) CART {CAke}{RT}

8   Mutant roach DNA covering one spider web like membrane (9) ARACHNOID {ROACH+DNA}* over {1}

10 Distributing grapes endlessly around youth centre in city (6) PRAGUE {GRAPEs} over {yoUth}

11 Scrutinises bug carrying a bit of pollen at start of study (8) INSPECTS {INS{Po...n}ECT}{St..y}

12 Eastern relation, perhaps (8) ORIENTAL* 

14 Insect spreading acid in California (6) CICADA {C{ACID*}A}

16 Extended play is initially tantalising with the French letter (7) EPISTLE {EP}{IS}{Ta...g}{LE}

18 Customers ordered stencil (7) CLIENTS*

21 A kind of pain around end of stomach producing a bile acid (6) CHOLIC {C{s...cH}OLIC}

23 Birds over Crusoe (8) ROBINSON {ROBINS}{ON}

25 Scare right inside marshy land (8) FRIGHTEN {F{RIGHT}EN}

27 Extraordinary priest is most mature (6) RIPEST*

29 Start speech about one drink (9) ORIGINATE {OR{1}{GIN}ATE}

30 Spoil small planet (4) MARS {MAR}{S}

DOWN

1   Grooming aid's hot air goes right into pores at first (8) HAIRGRIP {H}{AIR}{Goes}{Ri..t}{Into}{Po..s}

2   Buck got by throwing gats (4) STAG*

3   Gift story book (6) TALENT {TALE}{NT}

4   Cricketer Shastri mixes oil to prepare stuffed pasta (7) RAVIOLI {RAVI}{OIL*}

5   Tangible clay ship is sailing (8) PHYSICAL*

6 & 15 Arrive, bathe and reveal (4,5) COME CLEAN {COME}{CLEAN}

9   Period editor is worshipped (5) DOTED {DOT}{ED}

13 Stand in support of artist (5) EASEL [CD]

15 See 6 

17 Food additive made from litchi paste spread around eastern pole (8) LECITHIN {LITCHI}* over {E} with N

19 Pants, "Powdered ores rust" (8) TROUSERS*

20 Scotsman hugged Indian queen and Asian national (7) IRANIAN {I{RANI}AN}

22 Oprah goes back for Groucho's brother (5) HARPO<=

24 Edge English cricketer (6) BORDER [DD]

26 Greek and Indian give broad smile (4)  GRIN {GR}{IN}

28 Redrawn map includes university zoo resident, perhaps (4) PUMA {P{U}MA*}

Reference List

Right = RT, The in French = LE, Over = ON, Marshy land = FEN, Small = S, Hot = H, Book = NT(New Testament), Period = DOT, Eastern = E, Pole = N, Indian Queen = RANI, Greek = GR, Indian = IN, University = U