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I've finished unless I've got 24 wrong. Is the definition a bird?

Thanks for the input, guys.

I think my 1D is correct, then, if I change the S-part: I now understand the parsing. I had the name of the fruit as the answer, which gave me an 'r' as the second letter of 9A and I had a stonking answer for that one, which was orca - you know, killer whales, take the top & tail off p-orke-r. Whatever Paul's answer is, I already like mine better :-)

If you think all the clues are OK then I guess 24D isn't (r)egret, either.

I've got a bird at 24D macgee, I'm not sure how it's meant to work but I think the actual defn. part may be crest(if the bird dropping is a Queen)

Definitely not egret then.

I like ALL my answers better than Paul's, I'll just fill it in randomly and wait for January.

Our posts crossed re 24D livs - think pig meat for 9A

Oh. Ah. They're not alive then? Live, but not alive...

Thanks.

Egret/aigrette can mean crest livs

I've finished now and glad to be rid of it. I found most of the answers "worked" but I agree that I didn't like the "Bird that drops its crest" and I may be wrong on that. It seemed to me that it was the sense of loss that lost its crest. Still, I may have blundered there.

Oh. If that was the answer, sorry. I thought I was wrong again. That clue doesn't seem right to me, if that IS the answer. If it isn't, then I'm still lost.

If the definition is 'crest', I can't make sense of the cryptic part. If 'Sense of loss' is 'regret,' then 'crest' could refer to the leading 'r,' which I can kind of make sense of in a tortured syntax sort of way.