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A different setter or just my own difficulty on getting on the right wavelength?
Some devious definitions (1a & 7d) as well as some debateable ones (6a & 11d).
FOI 14D LOI 1D (not sure I've cracked it!) COD 12a

Hampers

Not just you.

Didn't like the Titanic and dash for cash clues. Would'nt like them in a normal cryptic but outside the pay-range of an Everyman.

It is always the 4 letter ones in this grid that are the most troublesome though I did like 22d. I agree about 1d, I have an answer but there are other possibilities.

Yes, quite a different style today. Lots of clues involving puns. Had a grudging smile when I finally saw some of them.
My niggle is that in 1d, '99' is not what it needs to be for the clue to work.

Oops, I meant in 2d.

Re 1d, the Titanic wasn't supposedly "unthinkable" but rather unsinkable. So a captain with a ____ would pronounce it as the former.

Very good I thought, though I also raised an eyebrow at 99.
Some humorous touches like (s)quire.
The word for ‘absurd’ reminded me a of a sketch in Life of Brian…

I like your comment re 5d Jono.
I wasn’t optimistic after first scan but once I got into it I thought most were straight forward.
Although I have an answer I can’t see the parsing of 26a. Help please?

Me too with 26a. Not sure about 21d either.
The definition seems not quite right in 5d. I agree with mattorm about 99, but it does turn up quite often in crosswords.
I'll forgive a lot for 11d, though!

26 is a word for raises with a single letter replacement.
21 read the answer as 1,2,1