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Phil and Darla: think wine.

Ahh, thanks Rogissimo! (Head's hurting again!) Funny isn't it - that use of reds used to be a staple of previous Everymans, but perhaps not these days.

PS The 23D 'coincidence' is the sort of thing that could launch a conspiracy theory. I'll be keeping an eye out for invasions of Greenland today!

Felt compelled to check the coincidence you were all referring to, so just did the Quiptic... It's even the same clue number!!!

NE corner held me up at the end, as geography is not my forte, and 12a directed me wrongly looking for a homophone.
Got there in the end!

I enjoyed solving this Everyman perhaps as much as any other one so far for me (began at E4000). Some very clever clueing, maybe my favorite was 1D:

Now quiet, in the main, getting mangetout (4,4),

where the mangetout was italicized as an indication of its foreignness, so I didn't feel so bad about never having heard of it (despite a year living in France).

Brutally difficult for me.

9 clues solved.

Sorry to see that. It's late in the day but any I can help you with?

And while I write, I've got 14a but I have no idea how!

Hi Yevrah
Swap the two words in the answer

Likewise I have have no idea how to parse 7d, I'm guessing it's obvious, but no pdm yet