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I agree with Tommy both about Paul and 27A - no idea of the parsing. Any hints please?

5 to go but laugh out loud funny on many PDMs. Thanks Paul.

27 parses as (1,2) inside 4 ("hole"). Definition is "meaty one", though it also reads as an &lit.

Elliptic@48, yes, you need to scroll to the comment by judge @36 in the 225 blog which wasn’t until 2pm, so it seems no one had spotted it before then. Who the message is intended for we don’t know.

Thanks geeker - I was right - never seen that use / synonym for "good", had to grab my Bradford's to check it.

SE corner looking a bit sparse but sure that will be remedied later on after kids are in bed and I've looked again with fresh eyes!

I see it now, thanks @jono

Hi Rog, I'm sure your parsing of 1d is correct, I think my brain was pretty much fried by the end and I was just happy to grasp at anything that appeared even half-way reasonable.

PS You're right, I did mean the 29,500th crossword, not the 29,500th Prize.

Geeker@3 - "Grok", what a great a word. When I read your post last night, and never having heard it before, I assumed it was a typo, but for the life of me I just couldn't figure out (or 'grok') what your intended word was so checked Chambers and, lo and behold - there it is:-)

Old boomer slang, Brendan. Semi-popular at one time but I don't know whether it's used any more.
IIRC it comes from Robt. Heinlein's Stranger in a strange land. Atypically for a geek, I never got deeply into sci-fi books and even disliked that novel, which I read as a kid.

I googled (grok site:fifteensquared.net) and although "grok" has been used by various 225 commenters, I could only find it in one puzzle, an Azed: https://www.fifteensquared.net/2014/05/18/azed-2188/

You're spot on Geeker.

Chambers says it is a slang word meaning "to fully understand" and gives the origin as:- Coined by Robert Heinlein in his novel 'Stranger in a Strange Land' (1961) as a Martian word meaning 'to drink'.