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Thanks Brendan, I apologise that sausage fingers were at work in my post! I meant 14 down, not 24! Doh!

it refers to the clue number - it helped me solve that one, in fact!

No problem, this is a tricky one....

14d If you look at the answer to 22d it's an anagram of a word in 14d.

It's one of the cross-referencing clues I mentioned in my original post.

Ahhhh! So obvious when it’s explained! Thank you both for your very kind and helpful explanations.

Glad to help and welcome if this is your first post:-)

you're welcome, ang!

Thank you! It’s not my very first but probably my first in ten years. I suddenly found I couldn’t ‘get’ some of the setters and really struggled, so after years of just doing ok I gave up. But... I’ve started again and today I actually finished the puzzle! And kind answers are always a great boost to the confidence!

That's great news Ang and look forward to hearing from you again:-)

21d The first two letters for explosive are just the opposite if you're a chemist!
I've never realised that before.

I knew very little about the themed artist so I've learnt a lot today.

Hi Rossim,

I always took the HE to be an acronym for High Explosive - in what sense to you mean it?

I'm currently two thirds of the way through "Why does E=MC squared" by Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw so am learning all sorts of stuff about energy and explosions.