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Thank you, my mind couldn't get past using just a single letter for direction, obvious now!

Thanks ChFish, I know the feeling 😃

Thank you.

Add me to the easy pile, but as ever I think it’s more luck than brains with regard to what happens to arrive, when and where on the grid.

COD 18d for a lovely neat surface.

A rare virtual write-in for me, LOI was 5d as I spent rather longer than I should have trying to remember all the thespians of their tribe. DOH! Some lovely redirection today, I like liked 4d and giggled at the ingenious simplicity of 11a. Thanks Everyman and everyone who has posted today.

I loved the misleading definition for 4d!
I have answers for 14 and 21, but don't understand them.
A couple of quibbles: 11a is hardly a "flyer", and the anagram indicator in 3d doesn't seem to apply to all of the fodder.

Such an interesting forum this week. I'm definitely in the Geeker camp. I always try to start top left and work down and across. Got 1A immediately but then there were so many gaps that I thought I'd never finish it. Then reached the bottom half and they all went in in 5 minutes flat. Back to the top and a few PDMs meant it was done in an hour. Still couldn't see the dramatist till 5 minutes after the answer had gone in, though. And I'd focused on the acting Redgraves, which hadn't helped! COD 13D - great surface! Ugh moment 3D - horrible syntax!

Quickish solve for me also, but I’m with Chris in not getting 14.
For 21 I believe you need to think of ‘closes’ as examples of the homophone.

thanks jono. that use of "close" is more than misdirection - it's perverse!

Chris, the only way I can make 14 work is to start with a word with “i” in the middle of the answer, which is what Everyman is an example of, then remove ‘is’, then add back the first letter of a word in the clue (which is one you just took away!). Hopefully I’m wrong