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An attempt at rewriting 22d, I’m sure others can do better...

Centres of the vain
Yakuza in poetry
Coming from Japan
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Morning all
FOI 1a, LOI 12a

At the moment 12a is my COD, however the parsing of 13d and 25a haven't yet clicked for me

25a: replace the tat in ‘hit a toff’. It becomes a click.

13d: anagram or mixed version of ‘the rags’

I'm with Warden on 13 25 and I can't see 18 as well. Tx Mathi for 6 agree with yevrah on it. 12 is my COD, once I parsed it, it ruined the NW corner for me because I inked in a different compound.

Sorry, I mixed up the clues 13d and 25a in my previous reply.

Hi Fop, Hi Warden,

18d - 3 letter abbr. for "arrived" + single letter for "a little isthmus" in(side) "Med" - definition is "took the plunge".

25a - Is very clever - the second word in the answer is an indicator of what to do with "the rags".

13d - If you replace the last 3 letter word of the answer where they occur in "hit a toff" with the first 3 letter word you get a phrase meaning "click".

18d: three letter shorter version for ‘arrived’ + one letter for ‘little isthmus’ inside ‘med’.

Thanks Mathi and Brendan

I see them both now, very clever

Tx Brendan Mathi an Phil for 13 - its a beauty.
Still having a problem with the 2nd word in 25. 2 words, differing by a single letter, fit. Are both of them anagram indicators? The one that makes most sense to me as an anagram indicator makes less sense in the solution than the other.

I see what you mean, fop, but one doesn't fit the definition - the other is quite a common anagram indicator.