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Finished, although the SW corner held me up. Never come across 25a as an expression before, and still unable to parse 15d.

FOI 3d and for me, COD is 15a.

Hi all - can someone help with a hint for the parsing of 9a. Can’t figure it out for the life of me. Thanks

i think it's T(h)E ENGLISH N anagram
N is nowadays the chess notation for knight.

Anagram of T(h)E (vacuous) + ENGLISH + chess abbr for KNIGHT.

Dinsdale....

Thank you!

This was hard today I thought.

Not really impressed with 15D although I managed to parse it... using without to mean "around" does not come up very often I guess. And function is a bit vague really. If it had mentioned Napier or something that would have helped.

8A was a bit vague as well I thought although once i checked what shy as a verb can mean it made sense.

Favourite was probably 11A (that was a bit vague too though, had to have all the crossers for the second word before I got it.

I'd not heard of the book for 1A.

I can't parse 18D either looking at it.

Ok I see how to parse 18D now (1 + last 6 letters of a 7 letter word), don't like it much though.

Thanks paradigmshifter - got the parsing for 15d now.