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Thanks jono. Obviously I don't move in the right circles (to parse that clue, that is!)

7d two alternate letter inside a ‘promiscuous type’.
Thank Monty Python, the nudge nudge wink wink scetch…

Thanks again jono. Mine was wrong. The middle 4 letters look unlikely!

Thanks Jono. I was trying to think of the 'promiscuous type' word and that has nailed it for me as well as bringing a smile to my face.

Rocky, 16 is an anagram but the fodder is not obvious: two nonconsecutive words in the clue plus the outer two letters of a third word. The definition is "something to cover boobs in work", where "boobs" is *not* used in a Pauline sense.

I guessed a solution from crossers, but like ilippu and roger (iirc) my initial guess had the final 2 letters of the first word wrong. Posted above that 16 was my LOI.

Geeker
Thanks for doing the heavy lifting for me re 11. I’m not sure I would have got there even after a night’s sleep!

Roger, I only parsed 11 in the wee (US) hours of the morning after some sleep. ;-)

That's brilliant. Thanks, Geeker. I'm fairly sure I wouldn't have worked that out. It's actually a great clue.

Chris @18 - re 4D, it's that old chestnut of a three letter synonym for "each/a", containing a single letter.

I'm finding this really difficult with just 16a in so far. A hint for 1d would be much appreciated, thanks to you all in advance.