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Presumably "and shut up that bloody bouzouki player" was only in the live or LP version of the cheese shop sketch.

'i delight in all manifestations of the terpsichorean muse'

Yeah but that was years before Theresa May's robot dance.

which was strangly an answer in todays quick . lol

Finally got there, LOI 25A, which I made harder by getting 16D wrong - I had the wrong word for conks out, which gave me a type of shorts with pockets.
Even then I found 25A a bit of a 1D of a clue.

FOI 26A, CoD 2D.

Not hugely enjoyable, Paul never is for me, and the loose theme meant too many "wearing" clues which I struggle with.

Regarding 11, which temporarily fooled me and some others:
It figured as a clue in Paul's fruit-themed Prize 28,458 of 5 June 2021.
Link (spoiler alert!): https://www.fifteensquared.net/2021/06/05/guardian-prize-28458-by-paul/

Finished crossword yesterday but stil lpuzzling over parsing 24 a - 'Reject overpaid playboys after vacation abroad. ' Someone said it was amusing so I don't want to miss out.

anagram of: (overpaid + "vacated" playboys)

Thanks for that, Paradigmshifter. Always so obvious after someone else has cracked it !

More on 11 (variant, spoiler alert):
See 1d in today's Quiptic 1,138. Pasquale is the setter; there have been some surprising names in the Monday slots of late.