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I didn’t want to mention it, I only discovered it once I’d finished ;-)

great fun Picaroon so thanks for some welcome respite....20a indeed!

lots of goodies but picked out 4d in particular

I'm left with two in the NW. I have an answer that sort of works for 9a, but can't see why "little" gives letters 2-4, and it leaves me with nothing for 1d.

6d my favourite too!

Chris, I read little as in ‘little in number’. 1d is odd, but nothing else fits there and given the restrictions Picaroon imposed on himself (wink) a bit of grid crunch is not surprising

Thanks jono - that confirms my 9a. I'll have another look at 1d.

No, still no idea on 1d. Is it a person's name? Is there a U in it?

Not a person and no U.
It parses as 3+3 where the first 3 is a 4 letter word that’s been ‘cut’. ‘Bank’ and ‘statement’ need to be considered separately. Chambers lists it as informal Australian.

Thanks jono. I'm giving that one up!

Do you have the first letter? If not it can be deduced (using what’s been alluded to in several of the earlier posts)