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21a. The Dutch painter is our friend LELY, inside which is E RING for English group.

Nice one Jono... Re "19" I no longer have the bumper crossword book, I finished all the puzzles and recycled it.

Cheers, just ATONEMENT left to parse.

Maybe a reference to Wolfe TONE an early Irish nationalist + ME inside ANT (soldier)

That would make sense getg, there's also an Irish group called the Wolfe Tones named after said person.

15a. Idiot yokel's not from round here
YOKEL

28a. Labourer binning volumes, for example, as refuse
NAY-SAY

8d. Fly I'm obliged to carry off in beer barrel
TAKE WING

Parses for the above please.

8 Take Wing, fly. Ta - I'm obliged +Win, carry off + Keg, beer barrel. Ta ke win g.

8d. TA (I’m obliged) WIN (carry off) in KEG (beer barrel)

28 Navvy would have been the labourer. Binning volumes = drop the Vs, abbreviation for volume +Say, for axample. Nay-Say, refuse, say no etc...

Oops 15a. answer is THICKO

how ironic...!

15a Surely the answer can’t be YOKEL given it’s in the clue.
I think it might be THICKO… HICK (yokel) in TO (not from)