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Thanks to Everyman for a fun and high-quality (IMO) puzzle this week.
About median difficulty, of course YMMV. Most of the familiar Everyman features: "primarily", rhyming pair, homophone (perhaps not an inspired one), but no non-English word/phrase I could see.
One oddity: 19d is highly reminiscent of last week's Prize 28,626 (Brendan). That led me to search in vain for a pangram.
FOI 1d, LOI 14, clear COD 5, which was very nice.

In fact, the clue in last week's Prize analogous to 19d was my COD. But it doesn't rank this week due to the familiarity.

Good day. Woke in the small hours. Should not look at a screen at this time of night but could not resist. FOI 10a LOI 6a. COD 4d as I am getting the ang of these cockney references.

Hi Geeker, hi Yevrah,

I really enjoyed this and there were lots of clues that made me smile such as16a and 6a but, and I can't believe I'm saying this, my COD is the Spoonerism at 26a:-)

I know there's been a lot of discussion on this Forum's Pedants United thread between Malone, Jigjag, Grunger and others about the use of the female suffix so I think they might appreciate this:-)

Thanks to Everyman for a most enjoyable puzzle.

Half-see 😂 I like it.

26a - To make the Spoonerism work you need to treat the 4th and 5th letters as one and swap them with the first letter - this will give you "women who see (the) future".

Very enjoyable, especially after yesterdays marathon! I also like the Spoonerism, I thought the feminine word was whimsical at first, but it’s in Chambers I see. Definitely one for the pedant’s thread Brendan ;-)

I can't see the parsing of 17a - any hints?

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Thanks jono - very well hidden!

Just the right level for me. What I enjoy about the posts in this forum is how differently we experience the clues. Often when I’m stuck there will be no mention of those I’m trying to crack but much discussion of what to me, are write- ins. FOI 6a LOI 24a. COD 11a.