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18D: Mobile? Its casing is sound (7)
P?O?E?E
I'm pretty sure all the letters are correct.
I expect I'll need an explanation, too, please!

phoneme

mobile phone + casing of MobilE

phoneme
phone + P(HON)E

that would be phonepe which is french & scots for "fake turnip" (faux neep)

Sorry, above is correct.
on parse.

Thank you, both! I've never heard of the word 'phoneme' - had to look it up!

I got the parse but put phone instead of mobile.
It was a nice day, so ive had a couple of sherberts ;-)
Sorry for my error. : -)

It's all right, shooty, by that time I'd followed what you were doing and realised what you'd meant to put!
I would never have worked out the answer - I found today's puzzle very difficult.

:-)