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buzzybee
I think you need to revisit the first five letters, with 19 in mind.

Hi Rog, "before"!!!! How did I miss that 🤬

What was I saying about 99% of the time and a more erudite solver coming to the rescue? 😀

Funny about 15...I recognized the definition part of the clue and wrote in a guess straight off. Only after filling the whole grid did I see a clear thematic (5,3) parsing. Honestly, I skipped over the 1957 bit because the rest fit so well. I just now googled and learned something. 🤣

But, geeker, will you, as I will, have forgotten it within 24 hours? 😉😥

Bren - I’m certainly not more erudite (or as a receptionist we had used to say, araldite) than you, but I’m glad to have been able to help on this occasion and look forward to you returning the favour soon 😉

16 was another one for which I guessed the answer almost immediately but didn't parse until the grid was full.

Oops!
Yes went astray with 15d. I am mortified, it was my academic subject!!

rog, I'll probably remember the 1957 factoid. Partly out of embarrassment but also because I was born in that year.

geeker - you have only 7 years on me!
My only real guess first parse later experience was with 9, which I entered before my LOI 17, but which I only parsed fully a few minutes later. I could see the last 5 letters but it took me a relative age to account for the first.

Another one with 17 as LOI.

What a puzzle! Only Brendan can work a theme like this which I figured out half-way through, somewhat helpful but not always.

Liked several clues. But COD is 22a.

It must be difficult to design a corset for granny :-)