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@Teenieleek, surely there cannot be a current comparison going on here? Because, unlike now, in the original everybody wins!

kt17, Indeed! All winners but all worthless prizes and the whole pointless game organised by a Dodo. I’m not even sure what a comfit is, like a dolly mixture maybe.

When I parsed 41A, I didn't really expect find such an ugly word in Chambers .... but there it is ! It sounds like one of Trump's crazy inventions and I rate it alongside bigly, Nambia and other Malatrumpisms.
Anyone ever heard the word used in real life ?

I’m finding this very difficult
Is the theme England based? I’m in Australia

Although the theme is based on a work by an English/British author, it is very famous. Lots of cultural references have come from it. There's a name, an unclued entry, in the top left that is really useful.

Thanks Malone
I’ll have to keep going

Cocobunny, the work's never been out of print, it's been translated into 97 languages and there have been many, many film and TV adaptations. I'm trying to think of a clue, beside the crucial name I mentioned, that wouldn't simply give the name of the work...

Of course
Thank you, got it

Thanks, Cocobunny - glad you got there!

@Gerba - no I hadn't - and like you my eyebrow arched!

But there it was in Chambers so every day's a school day I s'pose!