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Drjax -- Excellent spot! It must be that. But who on earth calls it a ****? I think we need to guide Everyman to the works of Goscinny and Uderzo!

Absolutely Phil. Loved them as a child - my dad was a librarian and sneaked the new releases out to my brother and I before they were processed. We had to treat them carefully so no one would know when he took them back!

Loubyloo, 1a is an anagram

re 21d
I (probably mistakenly) thought that if you put the answer on/over board you end up with 9 letter word (over 8) which maybe why there is a ? at the end of fhe clue
I'll get my coat ......

..and the 9letter word is used on a ship (on board)

I went down the same nautical rabbit hole, Jazz!
And because I use an iPad, for me this thing appears above the letter “g” and has no connection with “8” at all!

re 23a I remember, as a child, my grandfather used to say "I'm just going for a **** around the garden " I've not neard it said by anyone since

I assumed that they were 8 on board a ship due to them being a nuisance, but I see drjax has the correct parsing, good spot.

23A I had vaguely heard of and it is one of the meanings in Chambers as well (the entry for the word is of course very long though so took me a while to find it at beer o'clock).

I do call the character on a board the 4 letter word rather than the homophone of the cartoon character, probably because I used to program in C/C++ where it comes up a lot (hardly ever in C# which is what I now program in). It means "contents of a memory address" in C/C++. In C# it just means "multiply" though (also means that in C/C++ of course, but the "contents of" is used a lot more).

When you get to the point of having to say "contents of the contents of the contents of a memory address" you can see why the 4 letter version is more common ;)

And obviously I had to read 21 backwards (over) to even make sense of it how I did ;) I just went with the lead actor definition anyway!