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In 5ac - agree only 1 answer - greenish think drink - pie think diagram.

chartreuse? pie chart? So what? And the only answer I've got is recycle, so I assume that's wrong!

10A it's raining....?

Can anyone explain the parsing of 9D? I have a reasonable answer which fits all the across ones I've done so far, but I have an extraneous a+t in the answer, unless by = at and we're using reverse Polish type parsing...

I've finished the bottom. Are we talking Spice Girls for 16A (from 15D), because I can't understand the actual clue at all?

No idea about 2D. I thought roulade was a great answer for the first half of the clue. Shame it doesn't fit the second :-) Maybe I was just feeling hungry.

Ah, I have 2D and I see what you mean.

livs..

in 9D I think the by=at around(hiding)

The one I can't parse is 15D lost=l?

16A spice girl and partner

Ugh! Can't see any more. I give up. I never like crosswords where the answers are at one remove from the grid - I only got most of the ones I did get by looking at the hints here, and even so I don't see where some of them came from. I get Mrs T's point about wanting to know how many letters are in the answer to the clue, but even if they did that, you still wouldn't get any of the crossing letters, which is the whole point of a crossword, isn't it? Ones like this kinda suck all the joy out of it, for me.

Can we please just have a high quality, ordinary crossword next time, Guardian?

in 9D I think the by=at around(hiding)

The one I can't parse is 15D lost=l?

Thanks Ixion, that was the best I could do for 9D but I feel by is only at in the North of England - am I right? I'm a soft Southerner, so it doesn't mean that to me at all. And I still feel 'hiding' is in the wrong place.

Yeah, I just assumed the 'l' was for lost - no idea why.

And I assumed it was the footballer rather than the fashion designer but why, from the clue? No idea except h(ot) + soup gives you posh + u but where does that leave you? Leaves me nowhere.

Oddly unsatisfying, this one. Wish I hadn't got up in the middle of the night to look at it now.

16A is a complex anag indicated by "grind it"

Oh I see it - I was still trying to make a 5-letter answer. Not my cup of tea, this thing.

Did you agree about 10A?

Yes...left now with 5A[the only partner I can see is bleach, but it's hardly common]and 3D which is also a partner if my arithmetic is correct

My arithmetic was wrong...3D appears to be normal though very loosely defined?/dodgy homophone?