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My favourite was 8d. Archeopteryx etc: their first includes worms. Only after looking up the creatures in the dictionary and entering the answer did I get the worms part, which made me laugh.

Liked 8d too😀

COD 23a - took ages to settle on the last letter (not being much of a sports fan, except for hurling, which doesn’t have extra time as the GAA love a replay/extra gate!).

Enjoyed the puzzle, though difficult for an Everyman.
I also DNF (19d) due to the same mistake others made with 24. 😢

I'm struggling to parse 9a - if I anagram the 3 and 5 letter words and insert a 3-letter primate I can get the right definition but am left over a spare "o". Can someone here explain?

bby, the 5-letter word is not anagram fodder, only the first letter is used.

Parsing is [3 (a 3-letter word in clue), 1 (abbrev for a 5-letter word in clue), 3 (primate)] inside (1,1) (the usual crossword dodge for "on board").

Sorry, only the first *2* letters of the 5-letter word are used.
So parsing is [3, 2, 3] inside (1,1).
Apologies.

Interesting that your plausible alternative comes so close to parsing.

Thanks - I see it now!