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yes re 17D (all reversed for defn)
Most thesaurus's (online and book) give synonym for boast

For 8 I have boast as the definition. I was not sure what symbol to put in the unch. The three letters could be represented by a letter in Hebrew or several other languages or an obsolete greek character. I went for the one that looks like a capital F.
This was quite tricky for an easy one........

Thanks again! Sorted 16a/17d. Failed to find a suitable synonym for boast though but 'in opposition to' and 'female adviser' with the letters I have suggests there must be one that fits. Tried my usual online thesauruses and found that my Rogets had been culled and probably went to Oxfam. Haarrrrumph. (Could be I've got the wrong answer of course).
Oh, and Chambers doesn't appear to have the abbrev for corps in 16a. A few too many things like that this week for my linear brain. Couldn't have solved 17d without getting that one, never seen the waterfall word before and that didn't show up in any online synonym generator.

Penny drops re 8d. I was only 4/5ths right with my answer! Thanks all!

granama1 - c for corps is in my Chambers. Perhaps you were looking for co as the abbreviation. The o comes from “of”.

Thanks Smithsax. That's exactly what I was trying to do. All done now.

Smithsax - re: 8D - would ‘4’ work for the first three letters? I get that it’s not exactly the same pronunciation...

I'm sure markers will give some leeway for 8D - But I just used Chambers (where it says go to e*******) - If you visit that it mentions it specifically with the symbol - More like capital G)....

I'm very late coming to this - and everyone else was done and dusted two days ago - but I'm still puzzled about the intersection of 18ac and 11d. Crates @68 explains the problem away by saying that the two entries share two (thematic) letters. But the representation of those two letters doesn't conform to the conventions of the puzzle: in 18ac there is a redundant final letter (which I suppose could be tolerated as 'silent'), but in 11d we *do not* pronounce the answer as a three-syllable word.

Absorbing and enjoyable puzzle, but surely I cannot have missed anything that would justify this intersection.

I think the preamble allows for treatments to be either representational or 'sounds like' (although with 18 and 11 it's the former in each case).

I wonder if anyone else treated the 2nd cell in 24d phonetically (I did, although it's difficult to follow what Chambers is getting at regarding pronunciation - are the different spellings either/or?).