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Ah! With a little help from my other half, 13a has just, ahem, popped out at me

Ok… my (non cryptic crossword doing) partner has helped me with the remainder - including explaining the relevance (and pronunciation) of 6d in 4d … now I’m just left with 11d. If my 16a is correct I have every other letter.

Ask John Betjaman about Joan Hunter Dunn.

paulrt - 11d def is "officer", it's a concatenation of 2 short(ened) words for "boat" and "change direction".

Wasn't a word I knew - had to resort to Bradford's to confirm my hunch.

After not troubling the scorers last week and giving up, finished this one off this morning despite feeling slightly the worse for wear!

Thanks for tips / nudges on here, wouldn't have got near 10A, 25A or 3D without the help.

FOI 7A
LOI 9A
COD hard to pick between 13A or the 19D / 2D combo

swarbrules13th @53 on 11D

That's my COD. I only had the first and last letters but spotted it instantly from that. Thanks.

That's Swarbrules as COD of course.

Hi everyone, first time poster here (but long time user of this forum...thanks for all the hints, and apologies for not saying so until now)
Please can you explain the parsing of last 2 letters of 6D??

Welcome, Ish!
They are opponents in Bridge.

It's ok....I figured it out, i think! Chess abbreviation?