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Enjoyed this a lot. 13d reminded me of the fastest milkman in the west.

"abbreviation for pair?"
Thank you
I am so dim sometimes

11a, familiar with the term for mistake from my long-ago reading of Jennings.

13d, that tickled old Smudgie

Hi everyone

Despite 13th day of my severe cold, I managed to finish without recourse to the Forum. It was a slow start, but thoroughly enjoyable. I simply don't know how I managed to solve some of the clues. Many of the answers were real PDMs and lots brought a smile to my lips.
My Foi was 23ac, My LOI was 16ac, for which I struggled with the parsing, but I think I've got it now. Lots of CODs - 10ac, 5d,15ac, 26ac, 13d, 22d. Unlike many of you, it took me a while to get the long across clues. I managed to parse 20ac, but struggled with 12ac. I've just looked at it again and spotted where the 1 came in.

More Imogen please.

smudgekent @43
I always preferred Jennings to William too.

Smudgekent. And he drove the fastest milk cart in the west.

Have been in Sydney so just started Imogen’s prize crossword. Not finished but so far a real pleasure . 20 and 12 great clues , 18 also a favourite . Bedtime here in NSW so looking forward to and hoping to finish tomorrow.
Thanks to forum for comments and to Imogen , hoping to see more Imogen contributions to prize.

I'm stuck on the final two clues, 8a and 4d
Have ?o?e-?r?? And ???r?a?
A gentle nudge would be helpful.

Hi Nelliegee,
Your O is wrong in 8a. There are hints for 1d earlier in the thread.
4d is four letter role inside three letters clinic (an old fashioned term)

I'm almost there, 3 remaining but the one that I'd most like a gentle hint for is 22D (which will help with 21A which I'll probably get when I have the missing crosser). As for !A - possibly it's a UK think I've never heard of - having not lived there for a long time but let me mull it over it over a bit more as I have all the crossers.

The digital hints for 1D and 17D were helpful; so thanks. And of course for the reference to Mr D. O'Van which was perhaps an inadvertent semi-spolier.