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Quite tricky, I thought, but in the end it didn’t take too long, and was a pleasant challenge. Clever theme running through both the clues and the solutions too. Nice one, Boatman.
FOI 6, LOI 29, where the solution was obvious but the parsing took me a while.
COD? I liked 24.

I struggled with this, never got on the wavelength. Mistakenly reversed wordplay in 13d, which cost a lot of time.

FOI 19d, LOI 3.
Needed Google for one unfamiliar acronym.

No clear COD, but candidate list includes 1d (on which a misdirection error cost time), 11, 4, 17, 10, 18, 19d.

Thanks to Boatman.

Thanks Boatman.

Challenging as a prize should be.

FOI 19a. LOI 27d.
Likes:
9a, 10a, 13a, 17a, 22a
3d, 7d, 15d

COD 17a

geeker

Acronym is new to me, too. Verified with Google.

I generally tend not to pick exclusively GK based clues as favs. Good wordplay and surface are necessary. That's just me. In that sense, I have 22a also as contender for COD along with 17a.