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The name of the bush just seems to appear regularly in Guardian and Times crosswords and nowhere else in my life.

I've revised my 10a to a very similar paired word and got 7d immediately. Still working on 20d.

Cheers

Anybody else not finding 17 modified solutions? I've got 16 modified and 14 normal. Not sure which of the normal results is the changeling.

16D is normal

14A is one of the pairs

Sorry garble....misread your post....yes, 17 answers modified before entry.

Wow. Any really sneaky ones with the same crossers? Everything seems to fit so nicely.

Ah ... the penny dropped! There's a certain down clue that, if you don't replace it with its associate, yields an across solution that's an ancestor of the proper solution.

11A doesn't change by much...

Stuck on 21ac
"Runs off lots of cloth". N???
Can anyone shed any light on this?

'Runs off' gives a five-letter word, which also means 'eats very hurriedly' or 'secures a door'...

Hi,
Have you made sense of the wordplay in 16d? It can only be the bush that it is, but I am also baffled by how to parse it. If you have since seen the light, please share!