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16 was one of my favo(u)rite clues.
Parses as (2 inside 4) inside 4.

This was hard, but I was pleased to finish it without too much googling so it must surely be a bit easier than recent Enigmatists, which I have often struggled to even begin.

If I draw a diagonal line from 11 to 27 I have above completed and zero solved below. Definitely easier than last time though I'm struggling with a lot of the parsing.

Any hints on say, 27 or 30 might help me get going again.

Hi Rocky
27 is an actor (presumably) I've never heard of, but it's a really nice clue. Fit who inhabits Lords (cricket) into it somehow.
I haven't fully parsed 30, but it involves and anagram, and not many authors with those letters have a single initial second.

I filled it in exactly the opposite direction, rocky!

Hi ChrisE

The single letter was what I was focusing on but so far no joy. Thanks for the hints. I'll press on.

I am the opposite, Rocky! Any hints on 2d or 8d would be gratefully received ....

In 30 the high flier is feathered and the abbreviation for right is two letters not one. The rest is the anagram.

Hi neville
2d the definition is "perhaps this".
8d is a town but it's the key rather than the town that is French.

2d is an interesting construction. It’s an anagram (blurred) of a word from the clue without the final letter and this goes ‘sporadically’ in between the letters from another word in the clue. This letters for this word remain in order so in wouldn’t have been correct to show the whole thing as an anagram.