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2d tears as a noun
8a "Kiss man" refers to a sculpture
11a 2 letters from "heard" in a museum

Hi Ronpegram,

I’m with you on the parsing of 2d, 8a I can’t account for the 4th letter…. 11a I think is occasional letters of heard inside a familiar name for a famous London museum (named after an old queen and her man!)

I’m almost there - slowly but surely…. Can’t get 19a or d!

8 see car code for Peru
19a a word I've only ever met in crosswords. Google Japanese immigrants in US
2 2 initial letter abbreviations in a noun for "tears"

Hi again everyone

Making progress but it is slow. Please can I have some hints for 3d, 16ac, 10d and 24ac.

I have 3d D?N? A?? ??
16ac I have L???O????
10D I have ??????I???R?
24ac S???O??

A lot to ask I know.

I don't play or follow chess, so I've no idea where champioships were held. I'll try googling.

24a is a homophone, defn. "help", sounds like "victim of trick".

10d: defn. "clever writing", anag. of 1st 2 words of clue.

16: good hint in post #43
3: inside a 4-letter word for "the O2", 1 for "new" + 4 for "job"

Thanks Geeker. I got 24ac quickly, but 10d eludes me. I'm not sure what clever writing is.

Thanks ChrisE. Not difficult once you see them!. I actually had a PDM for 11a as soon as I had posted - having wasted ages looking for a homophone thanks to "heard" - a clever piece of misdirection by Vlad.

roof, it's a bit of a clumsy word that I'm not sure I've seen before. Try breaking it down into pieces: your crossers suggest an ending of "ery". Prior pieces are 4 (raw material a writer uses, sing.) + 5 (someone who works with a raw material).