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27D not 37 but otherwise correct

I'm sticking with my caps, simond9x BUT I'M NOT HIM, honestly!

Thanks hotelwhiskey. I had it correct but misprinted 37 instead of 27.

drxx, ha ha! I can assure you that I wasn’t thinking of you!

Thank you so much, simond9x - I'm hugely relieved.

Simond9x, thanks. I'm glad you no longer have the demoralising threads to deal with and I'm glad you can cope with my well-intentioned threads!

All done, but I can't at present find a use for the second word of 17A.

I think the container word is subjected to a double exposure, taking the outer edges in two stages.

Nice to have a relatively easy one this week - no doubt we will have the horrors of a numbers one soon. I am a keen participant and follower of this game and it was good not to have to resort to the internet for the final denouement. I think the title refers to the position of the game on the grid and it’s number of letters.

As others have said, an easy grid fill with some good clues and the phrase not hard to find, but I confess I still can't fully correlate the non-quarry 'first and lasts' to the phrase; which clue does the 'I' come from?