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I see no one has queried 10 across. What is "spearing"?

homophone of "sticks". willy rushton wrote a book called "pig-sticking".

Late shout. Thanks Mathi

Replying to all. Agree on the difficulty . got there in the end had a v busy day so no time to review and post or let alone help. On reflection it was quite enjoyable . I think what stumped me was not being able to see the anagrams clearly. COD is 13d I think. Though I did not like it when trying to work it out.

Bit late in the day for me too. FOI 1a - hooray! LOI 13d / 23a. COD 18d but a lot of good clues starting with 1a as well as a few easy ones.

Find the French term for pig using Google Translate fails to late replay

Fortunately, I knew the French for guinea pig, although they're not related!

I've almost solved it, but where can the cowboy be found (7d)? I can't parse the clue. I see a British slang synonym for cowboy in Chambers but I still don't get it.

Oh, and P.S. to those saying it's not "Everyman-like" enough. I think there's a matching pair in the first words of 3d and 11d. Pretty weak IMO, but I think that's what they were going for.

Cowboy clue: maybe an Americanism, and I don't recommend his music, but the answer is the title of a song by Gene Autry...