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Thanks to Everyman. Found this pretty easy, breezed through without thinking of subtleties.

FOI 1a, LOI 13.
COD 16, followed closely by 12 and 14.

In addition to the rhyming pair, 1a and 26 look like an "eye rhyme", but I don't count them as a duplicate r. p.

I only started today's puzzle near lunchtime, then had to cook for friends arriiving. Now finished, I give COD to 14d. I did not catch on to what the compiler had done to the author. The PDM came and I then realised all was not as it first appeared :-).
I wonder if Chris had missed the same?

I did notice the rhyming pair.
I am still not sure about the parsing for the Mediterranean port.......

no, i did notice the author's name, jazzgirl. i don't think the clue needed both "say" and the "?", and i didn't like the "definition", really.

I haven't read through the whole thread yet. Has anyone mentioned 19a and why three times ? I am probably being thick again.

it's a very dodgy homophone - another poor clue, relying on mispronunciation

Cheers Chris. I now remember seeing similar in the Guardian and thought that was also a poor homophone

Can't help wondering if there's a much simpler parsing to 19A than the various homophone theories. There are three ports on the Med with that name (Greece, Libya and Lebanon) after all.

Good idea, phil, but if that was the intention, what is "might you say?" doing.

There's 2 different ways to pronounce the homophone word though?

Could be that they're spelled differently in each local language/alphabet, so they have to be said out loud ... but I fear that could be venturing into very esoteric territory!