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Until now, diophantine results on \(\mathbb P^n\) could only be obtained relative to divisors with enough irreducible components. This paper gives examples of diophantine results for \(\mathbb P^2\) relative to an irreducible divisor \(D\). Specifically, the method involves taking a finite cover of \(\mathbb P^2\) ramified only along \(D\) and passing to the normalization of that cover in the Galois closure of the function field extension. If certain conditions are met, the inverse image of \(D\) will be reducible, and it will be possible to show that \(\mathbb P^2\setminus D\) has only finitely many integral points over any given \(\mathcal O_S\). In these examples \(D\) has cusps and simple double points. It is noted that the method does not work for smooth \(D\) by a result of \textit{W. Fulton} [Ann. Math. (2) 111, 407--409 (1980; Zbl 0406.14008)]. It is also shown that some of the examples cannot be reduced to questions about semiabelian varieties. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0997.00017].