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Hi Sybila,

I haven't got around to this yet but 24d lookes like a 4 letter Shakepearean (Hamlet) word for "evil" minus it's first letter then the usual single letter "Conservative" givin a "smart guy"

Ah yes. That works!
I've just realised that there was one other. 25A European ready to forgo power before (3)

Account (AC) around a 3-letter logic circuit in computing, all reversed, R extra.

I have seen the "evil" word used before in crosswords, and if you will permit me a rant, why is a word that Shakespeare made up, no one else has ever used, and no one knows what it means, even in Chambers, and why is it allowed into crosswords? Just wondering.

E + ready as in a fruit ready to eat, minus P, I extra

Thank you Buddy. I should have got 25A but am obviously totally ignorant about computer stuff!

I'm reasonably up to speed on computer stuff - and it was a new one for me too!

(It's probably more a term for computer logic studies rather than anything day-to-day. I even suspect most programmers won't be aware of it. 'I/O' sometimes makes an appearance and I think I've seen 'gate' refer to 'NOT' or 'NOR'. Maybe 'NAND' will debut before long. 😀