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Fitzrover & drjax it is hard to explain 24 without spoilers but letters 5,6 and 7 make up a rather specific synonym for a word in the clue - specific in so much as I can only think of one context win which it is ever used with this meaning! I hope this helps rather than confuses you...

I don’t think there’s ambiguity in 7d. You wouldn’t say the answer with the ending occurring earlier in the alphabet if you meant the words that make up the definition. Or at least in my experience you wouldn’t. I’ve only ever heard it said using the other letter, the one occurring later in the alphabet.

Yevrah assuming that the Def of 25a is the final word of the clue there is an obvious answer that fits with the crossers but I don't understand the wordplay, perhaps I am barking up the wrong tree (or just barking)...

Newbie here, just completed my first Everyman, wee, at least I’ve filled the grid! Is there a way to check the solution? TIA.

25a is 4 letter word for front inside of which (breaching) 1 letter for head of infantry then 3 letter word for landed and ‘at’ from the clue

Ah thanks JustSolve - I had taken ‘first’ to apply to more than one word. Got it now!

Hi Rocky

Slight correction to your parsing:

the second 5 letter part is "close fitting, topless"
However it yields the same letters as "vision, topless"

len69: Solution available next Sunday - see fifteensquared.net for answers and explanations.

Very enjoyable work out for my brain this morning, coming on the heels of the Prize which I did today also, because I was out yesterday.

Now I feel like I have thoroughly deserved my Sunday lunch. :D

Simonwatts

Yes, that makes more sense. Not 100% sure it's the best I've seen from Everyman but that does tighten it up somewhat.