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I think that they were sometimes given as prizes at fairground booths.

Thanks very much Jono and R.

Hello all.
Got through this without too much stress, but inclined to agree with some of the comments. It is not so much the difficulty of Paul's offerings - they have always been challenging. Rather, his cross-referencing has become too complex, and the very long anagrams make for somewhat nonsensical surface reads. He can write brilliantly simple clues - his recent "Area gets TV" was a classic. More of them please!

Enjoyed it, I do like a Paul crossword though some parsing still eludes me. My COD was 8/10/24, Fatal Attraction very scarey film.
(BTW thanks to Jono and Brendan for the steer on abbreviations/ acronyms, forgot to offer gratitude, which is rude.)

No problem, Playbus, glad we could help.

It is more commonly see prefixed with "anti-"

Yup.

Late start ,my younger son is here from Australia. I have a love/ hate relationship with Paul and this was definitely not loved.
Agree with comments @63 by Buzzybee he is very clever , why over complicate things . Needed help from the forum this week so thanks to everyone . Although 11/12 is not my favourite actor I have to acknowledge brilliant clue .
FOI 7a
LOI 21d

Nearly there but stuck on 22a & 22d. 22d I have a word which might mean purple, ending in 2 for personal papers, but can't get n"light skimmed" unless we're talking about a brand of marge?

The across: I have **o*m*, first might be F, but can't think of an actor or parse the wordplay.

Foi was 7a, loi one of these two.

Hi Pam,

22a - 3 letter "winning cry" (think bullfighter) goes around 3 letter "as well" - definition is themed

22d - 6 letter "light" minus its first letter/.skimmed' + 2 letter "personal documents" - definition is a flower but I don't know what colour, Google says they come in many and Chambers doesn't mention 'purple' so...