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Simple enough until I got stumped by 14d and 16a

16a I am still not sure is a real word and as for 14d- who knew?

12 and 13-most ingenious!

I’m with you on 14. Must’ve taken me as long to get as all the others in total.

Also worth noting perhaps that next week will be # 4000. Should we expect something special?

Similar experience, ended up using a word finder to see what would fit in 14d.
I took the “Alan” in 16a to be an Everyman self-reference.
“At” in 13d seems to be there just for the surface, doesn’t really work for me.

Mprs, indeed, 4000! The current Everyman has made subtle references to milestones in the past - his 100th and 200th puzzles contain allusions to the fact.

Just did a quick look and 16a is a real word. Unlikely as it seems. Her in 5d has appeared in Everyman recently, I believe. No objection as I am a bit of a fan!

Failed on
3a -not sure I've ever encoutered that in the wild .
14d I thought that was a brand of tinned meat -didn't realise it existed as a place.
17a Got the last three letter but no idea where the first four come from
19a Too hard for me .

16a I got -just the first letter of Alan then a word meaning wider with a letter meaning nothing removed .

14A is a beast isn’t it? I have the only thing that really fits (SA port) but the parsing completely eludes me. Any hints?

hardest ever! i can see the fights in 14d, but not the rest, and even they are a loose synonym.
still stuck on 16, 19, and 13

14 is five letters ‘box’ (think Japanese food) inside five letters ‘fights’

16 ‘nothing consumed’ means take O away from a word for ‘increasingly wide’… this comes after the A