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Quite good.

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Composer Lionel, Low singer, leaves those fighting, tale ending with sentence,

Good day.

Finished but must have a letter wrong somewhere as I've not seen the bells and whistles.

Did not flow in easily for me but enjoyed the clues. Like the rhyming pair.

A different 'primarily' makes a change.

Thanks Everyman.

I thought a little easier than recent weeks.
The rhyming pair were rather amusing, not sure if there’s a message there.
Curiously one solution also appeared in yesterday’s Quick Cryptic by Maskarade.
Score 445 😉

Aha. 26a. I had the wrong answer although one that made sense. I had not spotted the obvious anagram.

Got my points score now.

I really enjoyed this. Just the right degree of challenge. The new format is irritating but I’m glad I persevered as I was rewarded by some lovely clues: 16d, 19d, 26a, 14a and 20d were all good in my view. Thank you Everyman.

I think 14a is my COD.

Completed but haven't got a score so must be a mistake somewhere. The only clue I'm not certain on the parsing is 10a; I can make it make sense as "low singer"; but not "bum" so wondering if that's my mistake, but there are no other obvious words to fit the crossers...

Hi Tom, “bum” is the definition, wordplay parses 3,4

OK - mystery solved. I had "Stuffs" for 2d (which does work for both definitions, although admittedly the second one is a little clunkier) and "mouther" for 10a. I wonder if anyone else had the same error?!

I am impressed you completed it in 4 minutes Jono. That is very fast.