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28A Flash seen by gunners, left and right (5) The letters I have are - M?R??
21D Head teacher not about to indulge Potter (6) T?D???

Thank you in advance for any help you can give me.

28 Moral, right, proper. Mo = flash, a second +RA, Royal Artillery, gunners and L, left.

28, Mo RA L ?

21 Toddle, potter. Coddle = indulge. Head teacher = we need a Tat the beginning, not about = we lose the C, circa, about. T oddle.

Brilliant Malone.

Thanks. Brilliant again.

Thanks, Brendan - I was very proud of that! I had to check that Potter = Toddle worked, but Chambers seemed to confirm that it was fine (potter, to progress in an unhurried fashion and toddle, to saunter).

MMairm, glad our morals pleased you - and that my Toddle worked too!

I was pretty sure of the answer as, surprisingly (at least to me), there are only a handful of words with that letter pattern and "toddle" was the only one that meant "potter", but for the life of me I could not figure out the parsing.

Thanks, Brendan. It was that meaning, use of Potter - walking slowly - that was new to me. Like you, I had the answer - but it took me a while to see how to get it. I think it was quite a clever clue - and not just because I solved it!