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My dictionary doesn't give it explicitly, but it is in fairly common use , as in Pyjama cord.

Yes kobnut l agree. Perhaps I was being too picky.
Very enjoyable puzzle.

Yes kobnut l agree. Perhaps I was being too picky.
Very enjoyable puzzle.

Can anyone explain how 16a works. I have the 5-letter entry so I know what the 4-letter answer is but I can't figure the word play or the definition.

Match= singles, as in tennis.
Drop the tip of 'lighted' = singes.
(Which can be the result of dropping something burning onto anything.
Then, omit the E to give your four letter grid entry.

I cannot understand the reference to famous five in 5down. Can someone kindly put me out of my misery?

I don't have the puzzle, so do not know the clue 5down.
Enid Blyton wrote a series of books about the Famous Five.
And in the fifties Hibernian Football Club had a forward line known as the Famous Five.

Think of a famous group of girl singers.

Thanks token
They were after my time, but I have found the connection now.

My last two are
16 Side dish from Java's workplace Adam's served up. SA?BAJ (with A removed from clue)

28 Quartet in pack endlessly under pressure (4) I have TE?NS - entry has an extra E in it.

Thanks