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Overall, a satisfactory offering this week.

My only grouse is with 15D - Not everyone living overseas is familiar with contemporary British politicians.

Raghu, when I do/attempt American crosswords - such as in the Wall Street Journal - I accept that there might be political and cultural references that I won't know. I think the same applies to anyone living overseas if they attempt a British crossword. It was a fairly straightforward clue in that the wordplay gave up most of the answer.

I think, Raghu, that there is also another way to parse 15 d without involving Michael Gove.....
gloss over = ignore (def)
goer - Brexiteer
loss- defeat
v - v (ote) /referendum

@malone references to British historical, political, literary, cultural works and figures are to be expected in Everyman and now growingly French too....so a Berkshire village or an award winning actress is par for the course....only that Gove perhaps is not as renowned a politician...

@elle thanks....is goer commonly used for Brexiteers? in broadsheets too?

I like it Elle, that's what I call lateral thinking :-)

Elle, that was artful parsing!

Raghu, Brexiteers are usually referred to as Leavers (as opposed to Remainers) but there's no reason why they couldn't be Goers. Maybe the more usual meaning of Goer makes this unlikely? I think Michael Gove is extremely well-known in Britain.

Definitely a very welcome change from the last couple of weeks.

It's unusual to have an option with the parsing, Brendan!

Yes, very unusual Elle, and it means Mr. Gove can be avoided altogether - I'm saying nothing! :-)

Brendan, I thought the second parsing was fun - but it's a pity it doesn't really work!