No 14904, Tuesday 22 Sep 2026, Incognito

Solution to 10A 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 answer, if not solved by 1 PM.

ACROSS

8   A part of Malaysia, though in pieces? Or is Malaysia a part of it? (4) ASIA {A}{m...ySIA}

9   Notes wrongly written for office assistant of yore (5) STENO*

10 Sound and large increase in sales of explosives? (4) B?O? 

11 Pull away girl hugging Romeo (6) WRENCH {W{R}ENCH}

12 Leave mob in confusion? Can be transferred... (8) MOVEABLE*

13 Mutilated body near place for storing decommissioned aircraft (8) BONEYARD*

15 Operate uninterruptible power supply in last-minute checks before flying (3-3) RUN-UPS {RUN}{UPS}

17 Carrying direction (7) BEARING [DD]

19 Informative documents on harbours (7) REPORTS {RE}{PORTS}

22 Distress call from a couple of vessels (3-3) PAN-PAN {PAN}{PAN}

24 Abuse students in bad attire (3-5) ILL-TREAT {L}{L} in {ATTIRE}*

26 Eastern relation flies (8) ORIENTAL*

28 Old Oscar goes around harbour in city (6) OPORTO {O}{PORT}{O}

30 Zulu incorporated metal (4) ZINC {Z}{INC}

31 Stringed weapon that is a kind of knife (5) BOWIE {BOW}{IE}

32 Dagger used in hijack risky (4) KRIS [T]

DOWN

1   Star might turn into a ruler (4) TSAR*

2   Mac, for example, produced by European in Iran war at sea (8) RAINWEAR {E} in {IRAN+WAR}*

3   Has ATM transmitted disease? (6) ASTHMA*

4   Island boy organising remuda (7) BERMUDA {B}{REMUDA*}

5   Criminal on side? Come to the point... (8) CONVERGE {CON}{VERGE}

6   Get man leaving Manitoba in turmoil before noon (6) OBTAIN {manITOBA}*{N}

7   Carbonaceous matter used to produce cola (4) COAL*

14 Last letter from Rome garrison (5) OMEGA [T]

16 Patrick is at North American city (5) PATNA {PAT}{N}{A}

18 No, butane produces very thin pipe (8) NANOTUBE*

20 Cool! Arks can produce boat parts (8) OARLOCKS*

21 Prisoners of war giving shelter to sick give headrests (7) PILLOWS {P{ILL}OWS}

23 Go through price revision by end of June (6) PIERCE {PRICE*}{junE}

25 John and Theodore stole (6) LOOTED {LOO}{TED}

27 Spoil marathon, for example, around one (4) RUIN {RU{1}N}

29 Work hard to increase leave at first (4) TOIL {TO}{In...e}{Le..e}

Reference List

Romeo = R, On = RE, Student = L, Old = O, Oscar= O, Zulu = Z, European = E, Boy = B, Noon = N, North = N, America = A, John = LOO