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Hi Roof,
Happy New Year to you too!
Device/theme it’s the same thing really.
Not sure if others spotted this, but as well as the beginnings of all the 9 letter grid entries, there’s also a double anagram contained in the little 3x3 quadrangle in the middle of the grid.

Like others, I really enjoyed this but am not confident in my parsings for the "briefly mad" 10a and the "vote for one" 21a?

hi brendan
21 is "one of two" homophone

Hi Chris,

I see the "one of two" but it's the "violent exchange" part I don't get. Chambers gives to ??? (the homophone spelling) as "to confront" but that's not necessarily violent so I think there must be more to it?

I took some time to see that too, but, as I said earlier, it's a biblical reference.

Got it, thanks Chris.

Any thoughts on 10a "briefly mad"?

10a you’ll kick yourself, it’s just an anagram about two other letters ;-)

Take the "it" and last letter out and you have " briefly mad", but where does the last letter then come from?

Of course, jono - I had seen it yesterday, honest!

OMG! I'm such an idiot!

Thanks Jono, consider me well and truly kicked:-)