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3d: defn "field", parses as 1 inside 4 (measure of "paper")

If you have the correct crossers, there is only one place where "left" can fit. That should give you 4 out of 5 and reveal a familiar answer.

Thanks! 3d obvious now, I had A for the last letter so will have to revise my 11a and not be so confident in my accuracy!

And I had been wondering what had prompted the references to orange tops...

Took me a lot longer than usual but it proved a very satisfying challenge.

All done though I'm not sure how either 11a or 21a parses

11 explained earlier
21 alternate letters, then a British award. Not sure about "fixed"

Hi everyone

It was a slow grind for me with some wrong answers and many not fully parsed until I came here. I still have 24d to get despite Jono's coconuts (just got the reference to the shy), but still no answer.

I had a completely different answer to 14d, which threw me. I quite like throwbacks! I only got the right answer when I checked my guess with Dan Word (so cheating!!!!)

I still can't parse13ac (last letter), 22ac, 7d (where does the nameless legendary halfwit come in?) Thanks for the explanations for 9ac (I should have seen that) and 11ac and 6d. I'd never heard of 4d and 2d, but looked them up. It took me ages to see where the Pea came in in 2d and me a vegetarian!

FOI was 18ac, LOI will be 24d, COD like everyone else I do like 14d and I quite like 11ac, but I have a new name for him - "the great dictator".

roof, 7d is a backwards clue and "nameless" refers to a letter being dropped from "hereditary". The "halfwit" word appears in full.

13a is a homophone ("in audition") for a "note" and a "singer".

22 is an anagram of [a word in the clue plus the last letters of 2 words in the clue], defn. "strays".