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Thanks Chrise,
It was the word for American cape that had me stumped. A new one to me.

How the heck do you parse 24a?

it's just an anagram, including the nato alphabet zulu

I found this tricky, but got there in the end

I counted a total of 8 where the whole answer was a single homophone or homonym, that's too many for my preference

Chris
I thought American cape was just US and c (abbreviation for .cape ) as shown in Chambers ?

Enjoyed this but found it a lot harder than last week. Some of the definitions seemed a bit iffy to me. Eg 26a, I think 'disposed of' is a misdirection too far! Who would ever say that in the context of the answer?! Not sure about 20a either - seems a bit loose to me, for both definitions.

Also, would not have got 3 down if I hadn't been on the lookout for the rhyming pair. Had no idea of either the definition or the parsing (thanks to others for that, and, I think, to Jono for explaining the 'group of three'). I still don't really get the definition though!

Needed anagram solver to get 24a.

14d was a case of biffing first and parsing afterwards, but it was a fair clue.

Enjoyed 25 and 17a, but I think 4d was my COD, which was also my LOI.

i looked askance at 20 too, but decided the first definition just about worked if followed by "food"

The def for 23a is "covering for playing area".

23a much in use at Old Trafford sadly. Such a shame as the weather down south is lovely. I thought this one would be a real struggle on my first reading of the clues but it came together in the end after a bit of a hold up in the SW corner. I liked 14d. Some clever clues. Happy Sunday everyone.

Thanks Phil, Rogissimo and Chris, I get them now:-)

As Jono says, that use of "gunpowder" as come up previously so I should have got that.