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Good fun I thought.
Chris, the specific definition in 6d is in Chambers, though I didn’t know it.
Ffawkes I can see how you were seduced by ORION, that’s quite funny. Fortunately I had some crossers in place before I got to that one.

jono
Yes it is, but it's a subsidiary one - the main one is much more obvious (too obvious for a clue, perhaps)

Well, I've ground to a halt on 6a, everything else completed so I have 2 crossers which I think are OK, but I can only really think of solutions which match one, but not both words of the clue!

Think of the word as 2,2

Think not in terms of relatives or childminders but others.

Of course! Thank you jono and Rocky7. I did have the right kind of nanny in mind but hadn't thought to split the word ...

Well I too have found it quite gentle, but I have three left. There are a number of answers that I didn't know and one or two I couldn't parse.

I haven't got 12ac. I was working on the flood survivor being biblical, but I can't fit it in with my answer to 14d, so are my crossers correct ?A?H?M.

The other two I haven't managed to solve are 22ac and 22d. Some hints would be helpful.

An early answer was 7d, but I can't see the leg.

I didn't know 1ac, that meaning of 6d, 15ac or 25ac.

The flood survivor is Biblical but one of the children of the one you are thinking of.

7d: leg is a US slang term, see for instance Betty Grable.
22a and d are both reversed clues.
22a reversed (1,6), definition "bit of foreign bread", likely a new word
22d reversed (1,4), definition "stars"

"bit of bread in Africa" i.e. currency