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15d growing old is definition disgracefully is anag indicator for 'seen', then a 5 letter synonym of 'tantrum' that has taken 'cocaine' (1 letter).

Comes from latin root of senex, like senator and senior

Struggling to fully parse 6d & 12a myself. Got them just from the definitions.12a was a new word for me

The solution to12a is a crossword chestnut that's rarely encountered outside cryptic land. Parses as 2,2 ("twice on"), 3 ("functions").

See chrise@32 for parsing of 6d

Right. Drawing a blank on 14a and 14d- any help would be appreciated

I also suspect my 25a is incorrect (parsing it as 1,3,4,1) and a very loose synonym of 'frenzied'

14a parses as 1, 3, [1 inside 4], defn "they'll be in the pack"

14d parses as 3 ("a good way") around an anagram of a word in the clue. Solution is a word I only recently learned (see upthread), defin. "can go to one's head".

25a parses as 5 ("royal companion" with C shifted to the end) surrounding 4 ("wine"). Agreed on loose synonym of "frenzied".

Thanks geeker- my 25 was indeed wrong, but with that crosser and your hints the rest fell into place.

Really satisfying grid today

Hi everyone

Seeing Vlad, I was terrified (quite rightly). After a slow start, I've managed to do more than half, but am not sure about some of them. As a proud possessor of a 14d, I was able to get this answer fairly quickly, but couldn't parse it even with the hint above. I have filled in several, that I can't parse including 9ac, 19ac (what female writer?)and 22d again despite the hint above.

I think I have the answer for 14ac, but again can't see why. Similarly for 6d.

Can I have a hint for 21 ac and 23d