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Thanks Tramp.

Mostly done except intersecting two in NE.

Quite good. Was hard to get into - 26a FOI.

Hi ilippu,

Finding this very difficult, but I have completed the NE, though cannot parse 8d - if you need any hints.

COD 7d or 8d, both good.

Will come bak to finish it.

Thanks to Tramp. On the difficult side (though definitely gentler than last week's Paul) but great fun. I recall enjoying T's last Prize as well.
Upper half of grid filled quickly but the Southern half was a struggle.

FOI 1d, LOI 20.

As a wannabe BBC member, co-COD must be the intersecting 16 and 20.
Long list of contenders: 9, 6, 21, 2, 22, 23, 3, 12 and 11.

Have a clear parsing for 24, confident of solution but unsure of definition. Perhaps lacking GK.

Brendan
8d, think machine.

Brendan, 8d is really witty and I overlooked it for COD ranking.

Parses as 2, 4. The 2 is "con is set-up" and the 4 "sucker" missing a letter.

Re 8d: Thanks ilippu, thanks Geeker

Re 24a - 5 letter slany term for a "car" minus T which is replaced by 3 letter "dipstick" another slang term - definition is "check"

Hi Geeker
24a I took it to be verb;
3 inside 5 minus T

Sorry...24d is the clue whose defn. was unclear to me.

24d - Well this obscure - according to Google she was a 19th century opera singer.

Although, in Tramp's defence, she was "the most famous and highly paid singer of the late Victorian era"