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Good afternoon, Elle!
I agree about Diversity being the best act.
They won in a vintage year, too.
This is Flawless, who were the other dance crew in the final that year.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tQcHDWlSP0
And Susan Boyle was in that final, and another good singer, Shaheen, who went on to sing at Michael Jackson's memorial service in USA.
And also Stavros Flatley, who I thought would win.....then I saw Diversity!
Diversity are touring and presumably the younger version are on the same show?
Yes, my puzzle is complete.
Not certain of one parse and I may query it with you when you have finished!

Good afternoon, Rusty!
Wow! Flawless were good!
Incredible to think that there were two dance troupes of such ability in the same Final?
Has Flawless gone on to do well?
I have finished my crossword, if I can help you ?
But you have probably sorted your suspect parsing by now?
I couldn't do 1a?
I have C?U?K?
And have a bit of an iffy parsing for 15a...,...
But otherwise, I think all is accounted for properly.
A nice puzzle.

Hello, Elle!
Yes, Flawless were very good, but I have not heard of them again.
1A is "Chukka", a period of play, in the game of polo, I think.
"One throwing" is a "chucker".
In 15, the tongue is "Erse", "a Parisian" is "un", with "lad"/youth reversed around "Erse", for "underseal".
My problem is my lack of knowledge of London districts (again!)
7d I have "Swami". A Hindu dignitary.
I have "a.m." for morning, leaving "Swi".
I take that to mean, possibly, SW1.
Is Westminster in SW1? That's what I do not know?
It used to be Wimbledon in SWI, in crosswordland, I think.

Rusty, I thought of you when I saw this little clue over the weekend. I don't think you'll find it difficult...

Rusty saw (5)


PS The SW1 postcode includes Buckingham Palace and Westminster and Whitehall...

I'm back again, Rusty. I've just checked - the postcode for Wimbledon is SW19.

Hello, Malone!
I shall guess "dated" for "Rusty saw" ?

I thought Westminster would be more Central London, but I am wrong, it seems.
I don't approve of setters using London post codes in clues.
How on earth are non-Londoners expected to know them!
Yes, SW19 is Wimbledon, I remember now!

Thanks, Rusty - yes, 'dated' it is.

I was happy to look up the Wimbledon postcode as I felt I should know it. As soon as I saw what it was, I remembered it - better late than never!

Hi, Rusty!
I am very sorry not to have replied to your queries earlier.......my daughter rang at 4 pm as she was leaving work, and as usual we talked until she lost phone reception on the journey home...at 5 o'clock!
It must be very annoying for Non-Londoners, like yourself, to come up against London postcodes, and very unfair of the setter.
I think if you know SW1 for Victoria and Pimlico areas; SW19 for Wimbledon; and EC for the City, you will be reasonably covered.
I am very sorry but I gave you the wrong clue number for the one that I couldn't parse
I had done 15a...I thought is a good clue!
It was 15 DOWN that I was unsure about?
Disturbing being out of bed doing my job? (9)
Upsetting = disturbing (def)
"up" - "being out of bed"
But "setting" - how does this mean "doing my job"?
Am I being dense here?

Hi elle
It looks as if the compiler is actually referring to himself - his job is "setting"!

Hi, Chris!
Now I really do feel stupid!
How kind of you not to say so!!
I puzzled over that for ages!