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My second puzzle is up in Big Dave's Rookie Corner #510:

https://crypticcrosswords.net/puzzles/rookie-corner/rookie-corner-510/

At least this time I am not competing with the Guardian Genius.

Thanks, Buddy. That was great fun! I really liked some of your clues - 1 A, 8 A and 16 A, 1 D and 24 D. I wasn't keen on 12 A, but I was perhaps being too technical!

That was tough!
17d probably my favourite
Congrats on being published!

Thanks Buddy, enjoyed that.

The hyphen in 5dn caused us a wee problem initially.
Similarly, in 8ac, we know the definition and we have the entry, but can’t quite get the parsing. Interestingly, the back end of the entry is the opposite of “ square”.

Well done on the submission.

SS, 5d was an homage to jono who is quite fond of the lift & separate device.

8, Chambers equates "courts" and "squares" in the sense of a courtyard or plaza. then IN = HIP. Not super fond of the wordplay here but I did like the definition.

Very good stuff, Buddy. Excellent surfaces in the main. I’d have preferred ground for stirred in 9d, and am still looking for a way to avoid the gerunds. Maybe “put” and “feel” for “setting” and “feeling” is a bit of a stretch for the definition, though

Maybe: “Put ground coffee in empty bucket. You’ll feel better for it!”

My final suggestion. “Basket case drinks ground coffee behind station - he’ll feel better for it”.

Don’t misinterpret, I thought your puzzle was terrific. Good luck

Quisling, I struggled over that one after foolishly including it in the grid. But I think the placebo effect is not a thing (it) that makes you feel better; it is the act of feeling better. You take a placebo but you feel the placebo effect. That’s a subtle distinction and I may well be wrong, but that’s why I settled on that wording.

I gathered from the definition. You really think “he”ll feel better for it” is unacceptably loose as a definition of the answer? I’m glad I’m not a setter, I see twenty worse definitions every day! Anyway. I’ve said enough