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Jings, crivvens and help ma boab! How much can you get into a single puzzle?! Brilliant work by Check; a great challenge and a very satisfying solve.

Just to add my encomium to those of others. An amazing puzzle, especially with the two rearranged rows plus the message plus the end result. Many many thanks to Check.

Blinding! Thanks, Check.

I assume that the coincidence mentioned in posts 7 and 8 refers to a “domestic”: a term that was new to me in its Listener context but was no longer so when doing another puzzle from the same stable today.

No, Jack, it was in Friday's cryptic.

As basically just an overseer, I have to say comments such as the 'what a coincidence...' are slightly problematic. Nudges to the theme are fine - when asked for....
PS I say this as a non-Listener- I think I know part of the theme, even though I didn't attempt the puzzle!

i have 9 of the 19 letters, now stuck!

You can rest easy, Malone. The coincidence that I referred to was about a single entry in the grid and not related to the theme or any of the other features of this fine puzzle.

Ah, thanks, Jack. I was perhaps hyper-aware because an earlier comment had been removed. I'd hate anyone's enjoyment to be spoiled because of casual asides!

Malone,
I appreciate your concern. As the one who raised the subject of the coincidence, I want to assure you that one needed to have (at least largely) completed the puzzle to appreciate the coincidence.