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I don't mind admitting that I guessed & Googled my way through most of this. I've just completed a crossword & I still don't understand some of it which I find a bit frustrating.
I know it is down to my own shortcomings but does anybody else sometimes feel a bit disappointed having finished a crogger?

If you look at the other thread, you will see that several of us were baffled by the parsing of parts of this one. It icluded one of the most obscure I've ever seen in the Guardian.

Yes Chrise, I've just read the other threads & I knew before I read them which clue you were referring to. Enigmatist can be obscure at times but this took the biscuit.

are you both referring to 16a ?

Actually, I'm not, eccles.

I had to go and find it again - 16 is still not totally understood by me, but 9,10 was the killer!

Greetings fellow Gridheads...

Please could some kind soul parse 12a for me? I'm assuming the solution is EEL KING but, beyondKIN, can't see it.

Thanks...

I put ERL KING (as in Schubert), but haven't got anything more than the KIN bit.

re 12a
maybe = eg
sides are l & r (left & right)
family = kin
giving erl-king

I parsed 16a as a synonym of "the grapevine" - hence ref to distilled - or "gossip column". Ref to Corrie Street was one Brits would pick up easily, but I'm not so sure about them across the pond.

22a - I still can't quite parse it.

I have 'eat pi' in 'me' - but I can't figure it.

21a took me ages to figure out - caret around l - despite some years as a proof-reader.

I certainly didn't get anything like the enjoyment I would expect from a Saturday puzzle.