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Happy with that one. Hard enough to be a challenge but they all went in. Think I'm ok with the parsing of everything. LOI was 26a which was satisfying when in went in so probably gets COD

I think it was harder this week, and was just penning a plea for help with 26A when the penny dropped. Thanks to previous solvers with explanations to clues that puzzled me.

I think 21d works if you consider Paul Hollywood is from Liverpool. My current issue is 16a. Only one possible answer but I'm completely missing the parse.

Thanks Rocky - I’d never heard of that chef, who started out in his father’s bakery, apparently.

The penny has just dropped on the parse of 26.

16a - I give in on the parse.

Rocky the “dreadful” with a low value unit of money in front of it was a cheap variety of Victorian fiction, sold in instalments. If you take the unit of money away from it so it is just dreadful you are *****less, therefore poor.

Thanks Bowergirl. I’ll be able to sleep tonight!

Thanks Bowergirl. Not one I would have figured out alone that.