No 13510, Tuesday 22 Mar 2022, 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.

ACROSS

7   Quickly stop eating food (4) FAST [DD]

8   Mix gin and tonic, with love, for me (9) INCOGNITO  {GIN+TONIC}*{0}

10 Behind partition, alien makes container to keep money (6) ?A?L?T (Addendum - WALLET {WALL}{ET} - See comments)

11 Evict diver (5,3) DRIVE OUT {DIVER}* [RA]

12 Extraordinarily alter gem to make wire (8) TELEGRAM*

14 Yankee leaves slaughtered turkeys for mature elephant (6) TUSKER {TURKEyS}*

16 After tea, throw ring in vexation (7) CHAGRIN {CHA}{RING*}

18 At zero cost, Zulu queen gets space for cold storage (7) FREEZER {FREE}{Z}{ER}

21 Newly married ladies travel in empty bus (6) BRIDES {Bu{RIDE}S}

23 Period required to supply die metal design (4,4) LEAD TIME*

25 Got some quantity of paper in Air Corps depot initially (8) ACQUIRED {Air}{Co..s}{QUIRE}{De..t}

27 Pet vehicle is in front of eastern ship (6) CARESS {CAR}{E}{SS}

29 Ship red oyster soup (9) DESTROYER*

30 Old attorney general’s edition (4) AGED {AG}{ED}

DOWN

1   A Zionist leader in Tehran wanders in biblical place (8) NAZARETH {N{A}{Zi...t}ARETH*}

2   Basque organisation student and others (2,2) ET AL {ETA}{L}

3   Wrongly resist word used to address nurse or nun (6) SISTER*

4   A rotter is with sweetheart at setter's educational institution (7) ACADEMY {A}{CAD}{swEet}{MY}

5   Shining silver pieces strewn around (8) AGLITTER {AG}{LITTER}

6   Chop spotted cubes? (4) DICE [DD]

9   Love to go wander around university for getting flower part (5) OVULE {OV{U}LE*}

13 Urged English editor to include a couple of girls (5) EGGED {E}{GG}ED}

15 Sugary little thing kept in empty slot (5) SWEET {S{WEE}loT}

17 Purveyors of financial security? Certainly covered in Indian rupees (8) INSURERS {IN}{SURE}{RS}

19 Seen hems transformed into nets? (8) ENMESHES*

20 Gee! Lady may give appreciative look (4,3) GLAD EYE*

22 Ran and practised avoiding horrible pits (5) RACED pRACtisED

24 Air-conditioning cable contract (6) ACCORD {AC}{CORD}

26 Secret police in old place in the Soviet Union (4) USSR {U{SS}R}

28 Harvest rotten pea after middle of March (4) REAP {PEA}*<=>{maRch}

Reference List

Alien = ET, Love = 0, Yankee = Y, Zulu = Z, Queen = ER, Eastern = E, Ship = SS, Edition = ED,  Student = L, University = U, English = E, Editor = ED, Girl = G, Indian = IN, Secret police = SS, Old place = UR 

No 13509, Monday 21 Mar 2022, Incognito

Solution to 17A 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.

ACROSS

8   Excitedly screamed, “Parts of arms are missing!” Give up? (4) CEDE sCrEamED*

9   Court seizes Royal Air Force vehicle (5) CRAFT {C{RAF}T}

10 Col.’s authorisation to go (4) PASS [DD]

11 Damaged panel missing during reconstruction of planetarium lobby (6) ATRIUM planeTARIUM*

12 Pa barked “Destroyed part of vehicle wheel” (5,3) BRAKE PAD*

13 Echo, “Wrong marker is used in redesigning Nanjing (except its central part) and taking over” (8) ANNEXING {E}{X} in {NANjING}*

15 Knock out actor from Roman Holiday and get a coin (6) KOPECK {KO}{PECK}

17 Unfavourable jingle? (7) ?D?E?S? (Addendum - ADVERSE {AD VERSE} - See comments)

19 Song about males in country (7) ARMENIA {AR{MEN}IA}

22 Austere fruit girl doesn’t have it (6) FRUGAL {FRUit}{GAL}

24 Spaniel runs around carrying a bit of fabric for period between birth and death (8) LIFESPAN {LI{Fa..c}ESPAN}

26 Grumman F6F’s model coated in shellac compound (8) HELLCATS {HELLCA{T}S*}

28 After removing damaged belt, clumsily lubricates old flier (6) ICARUS {lUbRICAteS}*

30 Church stores silver in enclosure (4) CAGE {C{AG}E}

31 This note can be fatal (1,4) A FLAT*

32 Bird in Northern estuary (4) ERNE [T]

DOWN

1   32’s home in Northern estuary (4) NEST [T]

2   Chinese capitalists seek pine by mistake (8) PEKINESE*

3   Novel CIS map showing small lobsters (6) SCAMPI*

4   Refuse boy residing in shed (7) GARBAGE {GAR{B}AGE}

5   Tart cake prepared for assailant (8) ATTACKER*

6   State, “Look backwards and repair” (6) UPKEEP {UP}{PEEK<=}

7   Large landmass in possession of sanyasi/ascetic (4) ASIA [T]

14 Lowest level drain rebuilt (5) NADIR*

16 Perhaps, feature a country (5) CHINA {CHIN}{A}

18 Alas! Nuts are crushed for queens (8) SULTANAS*

20 Trapped a deer running around new poles (8) ENSNARED {A+DEER}* over {N}{SN}

21 Marine raconteur dated before last fling (3,4) OLD SALT {OLD}{LAST*}

23 Romeo left spectators seating area for kitchen on-board ship (6) GALLEY GALLErY

25 Perhaps rocks fluid tins wildly (6) FLINTS {FL}{TINS*}

27 Test retired Air Marshal (4) EXAM {EX}{AM}

29 Injured laundress drops garment to show bone (4) ULNA LAUNdress*

Reference List

Court = CT, Echo = E, Knock out = KO, Model = T, Church = CE, Boy = B, New = N, Poles = S,N, Romeo = R, Fluid = FL, Air Marshal = AM