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12a. What joggers use their elbows for
NUDGE

27a. Journalist sent back 'Fall and Rise of Reginald...'
EDITOR

5a. Starts to tuck into pies and bottles of juice
FLAGONS

Parses for the above please.

12 memory jogging rather than running
27 no idea, except Perrin is missing!
5 GO (start?) in FLANS (pies?)

27. The original clue is “…of Reginald initially”.
So a reversal of TIDE (fall and rise) + O R

Cheers...re 27, clue was typed exactly as printed, so no wonder I didn't get it.
Still don't understand the NUDGE answer.

to jog means to nudge, so if you jog someone in the side say, you also nudge them

Cheers geting, and hence I suppose 'to jog the memory ', i.e. give it a nudge to get it thinking properly.

23a. Politician's talking horse!
MAYOR

21d. Being in middle of ship
ESSE

15a. This accepting a meal ticket - with simultaneous discharge!
SALVA

Parses for the above please.

21 (v)ESSE(l)

15 looks like SALVO, where LV is luncheon voucher

… the original clue is “thus” accepting a meal ticket.
A LV in SO (thus).

23 "sounds like" "mare" (horse) - awful!