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As you were again. I had misunderstood what "twice" referred to.

Thanks raffles. I just saw it.

Cheers quocunque - it took me a while to get it!

13 d - can’t parse ‘workers’

raffles
Worker bees?

Heleninglos, julesvern - thanks I see it now. Definitely a case of me overthinking it.

Rafflesgt- 'workers' here is not referring to the usual sense it's used in the Everyman though still in the same broad kind of area

Thanks Chris and Wulgus.

Busy blog.

I have solved 6 clues all day and have now given up, even with all the hints and nudges and explanations given; I can’t even get 9a (if I can’t find anagrams I am goosed)

Could I ask for some pointers for 1a and 11a please? I don’t know where to start with them.

Hi Druh,
1a words like G-rand, U-niversity and I-nstitute all have single letter abbreviations. Gold is often AU (and sometimes “or”, but not here). DIODE can’t really be anything else so it looks like a fodder word, so start to put those pieces together, noting that “invested in” helps with the ordering of the parts. The definition is remainder of the clue (and it’s “illumination” in the learning sense, rather than a light source).

11a parses as 6 (nation), 3 (mountain), 3 (protected place… in a biblical sense, see earlier comments on this). The whole clue then works as the definition. This is sometimes called &Lit (and literally).

Hope that helps.