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This was a bit of a curate's egg. There were lots of fairly straightforward anagrams; 3 seems unnecessarily laboured and 26 must have escaped from the quick crossword. On the other hand, I found the SW corner really tough with some great clues.

How do you tell if 19 has an O or an E?

FOI 3, LOI 17, COD 17

Hi Fitzrover,
Take your point re 14, though I think the O option fits a little better with the second definition.

Everyman seems to have a penchant for Pavlova, he clued the same word similarly last year.

I found this to be more of a quick, rather than cryptic.
I put O but it could easily be E.
More than one primary and lots of anagrams.
Two rhyming pairs

Jazzgirl I also put O, in fact E never occurred to me until you pointed it out, but you make a valid point!

I don't usually complain about clues being to easy but some of the four-letter solutions were write-ins and hardly cryptic.

COD 13d which combined a smooth surface, clever wordplay and a word that I like to use, myself being of a certain age!

Was I the only one that needed a PDM to see the definition in 5d? I think I would have struggled without all the crossers.

All in all quite fun, it's a while since we have seen a spoonerism, I know this will please some but I rather miss them.

The app is giving me a green tick for O and nothing for E. It’s a shame to have ambiguity though.

Good spot on the two pairs, Jazz, I saw the ones in the middle and somehow ignored the two on the outside!

Azed has a fairly friendly 12x12 grid today if anyone fancies a different challenge…

I forgot to mention my COD which is 11d :)

One other (perhaps pedantic) cavil is that in 12a “ill” is not part of the “fermentation process”, it’s simply a lift from clue to solution.

Jono
I had "rum rather ill" anagrammed

Jazz, yes, that’s how the clue is written, but a more precise clue might have been “rum rather” anagrammed around “ill”…

Ok Jono. I understand your pedantry :)

Can you tell me which app you have where answers can be "ticked" and does it cover the Genius ?