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I saw that too Mackania. Especially given 16,4 and the last word of 9 and bits of 23 and 3, but I suspect it’s all just a happy coincidence.
I’m not entirely convinced the enumeration in 10,17 is part of the clue, but then again...

Just got started, happy dance got 6,7,9 down almost immediately. Loved 9d. Waiting for my son to look as we do together using printout and Signal

Can someone help me with the parsing of 9d please?

first 5 letters are the woman, next 4 "mean" as an adjective, missing first letter, last 4 "eats" as a noun

Great, thanks!

Unusually for me, I seemed to be on Paul's wavelength this week. Just one left, which seems to have caused difficulties for many - 22/5:
I have all the letters in, but still can't get it. Any subtle hints would be much appreciated.

Just to check, currently I have
_E_K_N/_A_B_C_
Hoping that these are all correct, but any errors might explain my difficulties.

docrum, crossers are correct, defn is "pretender", historical sense.

it is built up 4,2,3,4. the last 4 is a dialect word for stream that you might not be familiar with

It took me ages to see the use of (9) in 10,17 even after reading the previous posts. I agree that it's a piece of genius.