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Good grief...I had to fix my answer to 25, having written in a geekish but wildly incorrect solution based on conic sections ("elliptic"). 🤣

[Don't use the app so can't rely on the tick]

I had made exactly the same mistake, and then forgot I had never properly parsed it. Thanks for the alert.

Interesting stuff - A quick visit to IMDB shows there are films titled 1a,11a also 8d (it gets a rating of 1.6 😂) also 17a and, naturally, a few called 25a, then probably the most well known 3d,26a - there's even a Woody Allen film 7d,12d but his is plural so probably doesn't count. Then there's one called 10a and, at least 2 called 23d, a few called 12d and, believe it or not, a film titled 16d,4d! I was really hoping there would be one named 14d but that, alas, no 😥

I'm sure these are just a coincidence as there are so many films and only so many catchy titles - still, it was fun trawling through them.

Brendan, 14 could work as a film title. Maybe a "chick flick" (excuse the expression) of sorts. 😬I can also imagine a fantasy, sci-fi or horror pic entitled "The (14)".

I found this hard, harder than yesterday's Harpo for me, but I always struggle with Paul.

I've got all the answers now thanks to comments here, but can't patse 23D. Is the flower hot?

Thanks for any help

minty

Yes, very hot.

Hi Minty,

23d - This one puzzled me for a while - it's an old cryptic favourite - look at at the homophone/reportedly of the answer and think what it does exactly 'over a mountain' and then look again at 'flower':-)

Sorry Minty, I completely missed your "is it hot" reference - time for some Zzzz's I think 😪

All filled in, but several unparsed. Puzzled by geeker's @10 - the only word I can get to fit the crossers is the conic. Is this wrong?
If I have 21a right, it's an odd clue.

[Going out now, so won't be able to respond until much later

Hi Chris,

25a - definition is "stud"