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Good evening, Rusty!
Yes, you are quite correct in your instructions re reorientating the computer screen when turned sideways at a right angle!
This is the link I found
https://us.answers.acer.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/42200/~/why-is-my-acer-computer-screen-upside-down-or-rotated-90-degrees%3F
It is now firmly ensconced in my Favourites!
(Ready for next time....)
It is not often I can find a solution, and then manage to understand and follow it!
You always explain things much more clearly!
Did you solve your elusive crossword parsings?
I am still struggling with some of mine!

Hello, Elle!
A good idea to keep helpful tips in your Favourites!
I have just seen the parse to 9a.
Not looked at it for hours and it jumped straight at me just now!
There are two I am not certain of.
15d Could "reception" be "first class" at school, say?
I am not familiar with it.
And I can't twig 24d.
Mind you, I have not went checking Chambers or anything...yet!
The folk are home from Edinburgh.

Rusty, I too hesitated over Reception - we don't have those classes in Scotland, but I remembered English friends mentioning them.

Update, Elle!
24d.
I have discovered there is something called a "bell curve", to do with charts or data, and it usually is "normal".

Hello, Malone,
There was a tiny bell tinkling in the back of my brain that I had came across "reception class" before, but I was not certain, at all.
As you say, it is not something we hear about in Scotland.

Hi, Rusty!
Yes, the very first class at Primary school here is called the Reception Class , followed by Year One , Two etc.
9a: "Doubles" is one of those that I haven't managed to parse......?
As is 13a, for which I have "Amenhotep" = Eygyptian leader/ pharaoh (def), but I cannot account for the remainder of the parsing.
And 7d: apostolic
This must be correct, because it fits , but I cannot understand it?
I was okay with 24d: belle = beauty (def)
bell - normal sort of curve
e - European.
I found the puzzle quite hard though.
Good that your family is back home.......did they have a successful shopping trip?

Elle, I liked 9 A. 'Chess shows one...' Chess has a Double S! The Doubles, game for four, is more pedestrian.

Hello, Elle!
9a, "Che ss" shows a "double 's'", and doubles could be game for four, I suppose.
13, is "an" is "a" (I think), staff are "men", an inn shortly is "hote(l)", and "P" for parking.
7, "Pauline" is to do with Saint Paul the Apostle.
"a" in clue, detailed goverment plan is "polic(y)", no way is "0" +"st" for street/way, inside.
I had not heard of "bell=normal sort of curve" before.
I thought some of the clues were on the easy side for a prize puzzle, but I still enjoyed it.

Elle,
Honest!
I know how to spell "government"!

Hi, Rusty!
Ah, thank you, Rusty! I should have been waiting till the proverbial cows came home had you not explained to me.
I always think the Saturday Prize puzzle is easier than the weekly ones......though I don't know why that should be.....
But today's was difficult for me.
Tomorrow is going to be a busy day.....
An early walk with the dog, then off to the coffee morning - cum- lunch party which starts from 11am onwards.
Is it Miss L-B with whom you are going to the Pine Cone tomorrow?




Thank you, Malone....I didn't see the double "s"!