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3d definition sound, not as a noise!
10a has been much discussed above
5d is one of my two favourites, Read "cute" as "cut e"

✔️ If it's of any interest to anyone, it turns out that the reason I was stuck on several clues in the top right corner is that I got fixated on a word for 4d which means an African, fitted all the crossing letters I had, and contains a spice girl, but is wrong. I've been solving crossword puzzles for long enough to know that even a word which seems so close to working may be wrong and it's necessary to be willing to look for other possibilities, but it's still so easy to get my brain glued to one idea. Eventually it dawned on me what 8a had to be, which led me to very easily see what 4d was (I had long ago got the correct parsing) and, with a little more thought, 5d. Now I've got it, I think 5d was a nice clue. As for 14d, never having heard of the star didn't help, but even allowing for that the parsing is so straightforward that I have no excuse for not getting it earlier. Anyway, done now.

Thanks ChrisE ..ive now got 5d !

What a brilliant use of “cute” …..

I've looked through the thread. Nobody seems to have had any difficulty with 19D. Is it easy?
I haven't got the faintest idea. It appears to be key so, perhaps, a small hint please?

The definition in 19ac is the last word, jennaralissima. Think TV

Thank you, quisling. I have seen quite a few TV shows this year. Most of them were really disappointing, but I did quite like 'Douglas is getting Cancelled'.
Let me see if I can find a show about a frog!!

OK, thanks, now I see it!

Well done! I found it hard to give a hint that was neither too obscure or too obvious. I hope I managed

Struggled a bit with this, but with the help of the forum I've now just got 4 to solve, 2 interlocking pairs:
1d and 9a, 5d and 13a.

Any gentle hints would be much appreciated.

I've seen hints about "cut e" for 5, but no penny has dropped. No-one else seems to have mentioned the other 3: I've got unusual last letter "a" for 9, but am confident about 2d (especially since posts here explained the "Police chief" element!). 1d presumably involves a "my" or an "i", perhaps "id", but I can't see it.

FOI was 25, as for many people.

LOI will be one of the 4 abovementioned.

Never heard of 18a, had to resort to Wikipedia's list of Norwegian musicians to work out the anagram.