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Hi roof
Sorry to say, 13a is one of the easiest clues! "Ultimately"?
COD is "Clue Of (the) Day".
20d the punctuation is improtant.

15d is a rather obscure children's game. Anagram inside abbreviation.
26a the city is in the US. The word is very English slang, I think.

Thanks....I can see what I think is the game with lots inside but I have never heard of it and google was no help.
Got the ciTy, thanks.

Got the game now. I mistakenly thought the answer would have ‘lots’ in it and all I could see was pilot ship.
Thanks Chrise

Thanks Chrise

13ac I thought it was something to do with last letters, but couldn't see a definition that fitted. I parsed 20d in the end.

Thanks to everyone for their help.

Hey everyone, I’ve been lurking in the background since January, using the forum to try and teach myself how to crack The Guardian cryptic. And this morning I managed to complete 28,093 without having to come here for tips! So, I just wanted to say thanks for all the pointers over the last few weeks. Like you say Brendan, we’re gonna need these pleasant diversions even more than usual for a while.
Take care all. (Still can’t parse 20d!)

Welcome and congrats, roosterbooster!
An even more useful site for Guardian (and some other) solvers is "fifteensquared": see below
http://www.fifteensquared.net/
Don't visit it until you've finished or given up, though - it gives all the answers and the parsings.

Congratulations Rogerbooster and welcome to the Forum.

Subscribed to the Guardian online. This is my first post although I have reading the posts for years now for help on Saturdays. Finally managed to parse 21d. Made me smile eventually.

It's so obvious once you see it!

Several people were having trouble with 15d.
It was my first in. We played it at children's parties in 'the old days'!

Welcome to the forum Hmmm