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Found this enjoyable but fairly straightforward. Never a fan of clues like 26a where clue and answer have quite so much overlap. Some minor themage in the SE; 24, 27, 21? It’s never themed so just coincidental I guess.

19 could maybe have been “lecture worked on by 28, we’re told…??” 😉

Enjoyed this and smiled at the Spoonerism.

19d I suspect that the "little" is there to mislead us into thinking that flat is an adjective rather than a noun. Well it misled me for a while.

20a The parsing has not yet dawned on me, but will read all your hints after another coffee

Thanks Everyman :)

Just the right level of challenge so that there’s still some Sunday morning left. COD 15a by a mile.
LOI 20a and like others, I cannot parse it.

I was minded to look up the derivation of the expression on which 20a depends, but I’ve yet to find anything convincing.

20a - there is an expression for being happy - “on “ + (5,4). Take out one of the single letter abbreviations for “navy” and add 2 letters that mean “ship”.

Matron has shown the correct parsing.
Usual abbreviation for a (large) boat, I.e. ship, preceded by an expression meaning elation referenced in songs by the Temptations and Bryan Adams, less the initial letter of navy.

Jono on "C**** N***" minus N(avy) + Steamship (abbrev)

Jazz, I wasn’t asking for the parsing, I was wondering about the origin of that expression. I’ve found some references but they don’t really explain convincingly it where it comes from

Fairly straightforward but enjoyable. 6d my favourite. Thats exactly what a microwave might produce. Agree with you there jazzgirl little in 19d is a misdirection.

Jono. I'll get my coat.......🫣