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Many thanks to Opsimath for a relatively gentle but informative challenge. I am still unsure about the original form of 1a. Google insists on doing the job backwards, leading to “Day”, which is no help!

Your I Across seems to be wrong, Jack - I've just checked...

... wrong as in the spelling perhaps?

Thank you, Malone. You are, of course, quite correct. As ever, my problem was SIW. (Which was probably an acronym that the original would, sadly, have known, all too well.)

Glad I could help, Kack Aubrey.

Yes, it was a fine puzzle.

Hello
I am falling at the last hurdle here.
I've figured what to do to reality check the answers but cannot see 25d

Sea snake in CIA navy (7)
I am bamboozled by this clue .
The letters I have are CA?PI?N
Have I blundered somewhere ?

Thanks in advance
fred

Fred, the first word is the definition. A three letter snake, common in crosswords, goes inside the CIA and Navy element's.

Thanks, Malone.

I do not know how I missed that.
Not only that but I had miscounted the number of entries I had altered and was going for an eleventh.
What a twit.
Thanks again.

fred

Glad I could help, Fred.