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Good fun I thought. I didn’t count them but it felt like rather a lot of anagrams for one puzzle, though I enjoyed the single word fodder examples.

Still thinking about the order of the parts in 5d and the parsing of 26a. Another coffee required.

Ah, immediately I see how 5d works

I don't understand 10a , I've got the answer

Hi Cosmo, you may need to look up the last word in the clue, it’s army slang

I thought it might be , but i've never heard of it . Many thanks

Very quick solve today but good fun. My COD 24 across.

Agree 24a is terrific (tho I needed all the crossers before the penny dropped)!
Jono, tufts isn't the greatest definition in 26a. You'll probably see the parsing if you think of a (lovely) word for clusters instead.

Thanks Phil, got it, the coffee worked

Morning, all. Yes, very quick except I still can’t work out 24.
And I also can’t parse 20 or the first word of 26.
Enjoyed 5

Hi Barry,
20 parses as 3,3 inside 6 (state that’s stunned)
26 first part is a word for “tree tufts” minus its first letter
24 is a play on “characters”. Not ones in Shakespeare