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5a Stage term for actors innappropiate laugh at the wrong time . Parsing straightforward
25a Description of a type of cryptic clue
20d Abreviation of extreme left views

5a five letter for group of trees around single letter for run. 25a mutual anagrams. 20d was often followed by 'bastards' - distance in SI not imperial.

I was stuck on 25a and 20d too, thanks for the hints

COD has to be 15d. The answer came to me as I was falling asleep last night, and made me smile as by a weird coincidence I'd had an online meeting earlier this week with a Scandinavian of that name. This morning I'd completely forgotten until I put 14a in to give me the first letter, and 15d made me smile all over again :)

And I don't like a lot of spoonerisms

All done except 22d which eludes me! I have S-A-E.
Clue please

It's a homophone, and fixed as in what you might do to a pet, was in Paul's "tool" themed puzzle a while back.

I gave up on that one and looked it up. Can't see how the answer means fixed.

It's a euphemism ;) Think neutering.

The answer is a garden tool

Thanks. That was the word I’d thought of as meaning ‘tool’, but to say it’s a homophone of ‘fixed’, is a bit of a stretch don’t you think

I think there was some discussion about it in Paul's tool themed Prize thread... I think it's mainly British slang? As in "I've had the dog fixed"