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16a. Drag one in? The first shall be last
CROSS-DRESSER

21d. Media pronouncement covering what to wear
APRON

5d. Jogger to step into ground
POST-IT NOTE

11a. Record created by me in sea in France?
MEMOIR

19d. Clear head needed by conservationists
PATENT

Parses for the above please.

16a move drag from first to third, definition becomes one in drag

21d hidden in the clue

5d anagram of to step into, something which jogs the memory

11a moi in mer. Me in sea in French

19d Clear is definition, head is pate, National Trust (NT) are conservationists

I rather like memoir and jogger will need to go on my list of agent nouns

@quisling....I still don't understand that parse for CROSS -DRESSER. Would you might rephrasing it?

Thanks all.

Hi Whetstone;
“The first shall be last” refers to the words in the first part of the clue “drag one in”.
So the first word becomes the last word thus becomes “one in drag”
A cross- dresser can be a man wearing womenswear (drag), on stage known as a drag queen

Thanks Paul.... understood now...first and third refer to word positions.

18a. Regular lay preachers take this
EVENSONG

22d. Inclines to be quixotic?
TILTS

26a. The result of a summer's work?
TOTAL

22d. As you can see, it forms a ring
ATOLL

Parses for the above please.

even = regular
song = lay as a noun

22 refers to don quixote tilting at windmills

26 summer as in someones doing sums

atoll?

a toll
a single ring of a bell.

Thanks for the replies.
I still don't get the ATOLL one... where's the definition in the clue?