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Yep - fair enough

All done - in no small part to the help given here! I cannot for the life of me see the parsing of 1a) - to such a degree that i question if my entry is correct. However it fits with the rest of the puzzle, and the definition works.

Thanks to the setter, definitely a challenge, potentially too much cold solving needed, although in hindsight one solved, the clues arent all that impenetrable. Enjoyed the endgame, and definitely learnt something about cryptography.

In 28, I have an obvious answer and see the "what" but where/why/how/what is the traffic jam?

Andy, remove the extra letter from words 2-4, then take the alternate letters from the remaining 20 letter string and then anagram them. Nightmare.

thanks jordan - a bit of a d'oh moment - hadnt even occurred to me that regularly would cover all that!

re 28, you have an extra letter, removal of which shows what to use in traffic. then i read jam as what to do with that.

Jordan - the “bounds” of traffic are t and c

I believe you guys are spot on about the tc in traffic (which I hadn't spotted to be honest) but how the jam dictates the selection of tc still escapes me. It doesn't really matter very much as I have already decided it is an awful clue..

Bounds dictates the selection and jam is what “what” does to them

Hmmm, I have been fixated on "bounds" being what "eh" does. That is clearly wrong. Cheers chaps