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13 is a cryptic definition pertaining to a favorite sport/pastime of P. G. Wodehouse and his character Psmith.

Senior moment, the Psmith allusion is likely wrong.

Wodehouse did write a number of short stories about the game, They often featured "the oldest member".

Thanks, Wodehouse was right but Psmith likely wrong. I read the entire Wodehouse oeuvre when in my early 20s...perhaps Psmith had a friend who was a golfer. I'm not a golfer but liked the Oldest Member stories, didn't care for the Psmith works.

Well that was extremely hard, I guess Vlad is the impaler after all ;)

Now I can read the thread. Not sure about my answers for 7D (I have a port in Italy) and 23D (I have a word meaning "join" as in together).

Ok, 7D parsing was too clever for me ;) I had the skirt at the end instead of the front as well.

I don't really get why "Quite the reverse!" is in the clue for 23D?

I also thought "banker" being the definition for 27A was a tad too cryptic.

Hi PD,

23d - "Quite the reverse" refers to the fact that the 2 abbreviations for "rule" go inside the PM rather than the other way round so instead of the 'PM breaking rules' it's the "reverse" with the 'rules breaking the PM'

Meh, yellow card for that sort of cluing I think!

What would have worked better in that spot would be a homophone of another horror star, married to a former (how long ago now?) PM but that would probably have been too much for the Guardian woke tofu-munching anti-growth coalition I think.