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1d is an exclamation meaning "Oh dear".
3d the public school is often contrasted with Eton. The other part doesn't work for rhotic speakers.

Thank you; I think I have them now but I don’t understand any of them!

Hi Druh. If you have 1D, then add a first letter (“opening”) to give a chain of supermarkets.

In 3d, swap letters 1&2 with 8 and say it to yourself - a public school’s type meat.

And I think 9 is explained above.

Great that you’re still persisting - we’ve all been there and it does get easier!

Happy Sunday, one & all

1d is a wojus clue - I’ve trawled the internets looks for a supermarket chain called hoops.

26a - does Everyman go to Connaught for his dinner? Parse please.

26a? Seems like 5 (draw outline), 2 ("the" old), 3 (mine almost)

Don't understand Connaught?

Sorry Geeker - I meant 25

25 parses as [1 (spot of acrid) inside 2 (Everyman's)], followed by 1 (duck)

Defn seems to be "sauce". I (American) have always thought the solution is a US abbrev.

Thanks Geeker - makes perfect sense now.
- sauce means something close to my heart here (Ireland) 😁

Ho ho! He's thinking of the Irish county in the province of Connaught.

@38 and @39

.... not to mention the Green and Red of the The S.. D......