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Thanks Brendan,

Ah, I see - reflection in the literal sense rather than reversal. That finally makes sense.

I have no button/link to choose the order of the posts, but have noticed in the meantime that they are at least numbered, so that should help to make sense of them in the future.

Thanks again

Hi, Crypticism, re: changing order of posts,
When you are logged in, you will see "Welcome, Crypticism! (Edit)"
Click on Edit, then in My Account, scroll right down to Forum Settings/change order of posts.

Thanks Mattrom - that's very useful

Got there in the end, but perhaps a little trickier this week (not least after spending a long time trying to relate 4d to 21a...)

Can anyone help me with the parsing of 15d, I believe it breaks down to 3, 2, 1; but can't relate the 2,1 to "in pole position"...

I also can't figure out which words we are scratching the backsides off in 19a!!

Thank you forum!

Shame on you, you poor thing 😉

1st

Tom57, I think 19 A is Sham(e), stain, stigma and Poo(r), low-quality.

Try a number that looks like a letter to begin after the donkey.