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femmenoire, rainman@9 mentions a typographical issue with 10a.

It seems to parse as an anagram of (2 reversed, 2, 1), where the second 2 is "I" in the font you used (rather than lower case "L").

My typo: drop "an anagram of" in 10a.

Thanks, geeker. That makes sense re 10a, the parsing of which I’ve worried over for far too long in an otherwise very straightforward prize. (I saw rainman’s post at 9 which suggested an error, but still couldn’t work out what the error might be, and as no one initially followed up and it hadn’t previously been mentioned, I still thought there might be a parsing of the clue as it stood that I couldn’t see).
No thanks to whoever formatted the crossword for the website for wasting my time!

Having said all which, I think the clue is pretty dodgy even when corrected to ‘or IOver’.

Thanks for the clarification/ correction Geeker. All makes sense now

I confess I don’t understand geeker’s parsing. Where is the reversal indicator for the first two letters? Surely not ‘-‘ ?

I parsed it differently. The second half, lOver, reads as lover with a capital O, and that’s what the answer represents.

O is also the first word in a Shakespearean line.

quisling
I agree that the reversal indicator is missing. But with regard to your parsing, I can’t see the significance of the upper-case O, given that all the letters are conventionally written in upper-case in the crossword grid, and that only the first letter would be in upper-case in ordinary writing.

jono
Yes re O in Shakespeare, but I still don’t see how that makes the clue work. I’m clearly being dense!

For me the first four letters of the answer represent a capital. So a “capital O” is a charade of the answer. I think it’s rather tricksy, hence the question mark, but I prefer it to the alternative