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Definitely Rocky, and all last night and this morning 😀

Thanks to Jono and Ian for alerting us to the theme, which I had totally missed:-)

@Rocky, you can't really blame me - for us it's akin to seeing a Unicorn 😂

Hey, I don't blame you one bit. You take your pleasures where you find 'em.

HI everyone

No idea what Rocky and Brendan are talking about; I assume either football or chess.

Qaos is not on my wavelength. I have now read all the clues and have solved a smattering. I've got some answers from my first read through. Now I need to go back and think again.

10ac my husband tells me Mahler didn't write any overtures. Is he wrong?
I had to look up 7d.
I don't understand 18ac. I've two possible answers.
I can't remember any French mathematicians. I'm disappointed it isn't Coulomb, though he was a physicist.
I think I have the first 6 letters of 14d, but can't think think what the last four are.
I've no idea how to parse 31ac and don't understand 1d.
I haven't got the theme yet.

I'll be back

Roof
First letter of.the word Mahler is included in the answer

HI Roof,

An "overture" can refer to an 'opening' or 'beginning'.

18a - Double definition

14d - 7 letter "red's" minus single letter/'no midfield' + 3 letter "issue" around/'covering' 1 letter "international" - definition is (order for) "work".

31a - A famous "Diamond" (not an it) around "i" and reversed/kept back - definition is "stay longer in sack"

1d - 1 letter "2.7183" (you can Google it) + 2 letter "3.1416" + 1 letter "25" clue? - definition is "that's impressive"

31 a Singer with surname Diamond reversed with i

Apologies Roof I snuck a quick football reference in under the radar.

I didn't know the French mathematician either but if you think of a word for messenger and the symbols for the types of temperature measures. Then google the other word it makes sense. If that makes sense. Probably not.

Hurray for Brendan. His parsing is perfect