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Posted relatively early this week.

.pdf at https://tinyurl.com/5n87sh27

A little more difficult than usual IMO.
Had trouble with some of the long solutions.

COD 19d, also liked 9, 17, 21 and 5.

Thank you. Much appreciated.

Thanks for the link.

Very difficult this week.

Completely stumped on 11d. Has to be one of the rhyming pair but I cannot make sense of it. I have only one possible first letter for 20a which suggests to me that the 4th word of 11d is a verb. But what verb?

I think I've now got it.

I had 20a wrong. Gives me a different first letter. Now I can get a different take on 11d. But it's still not a phrase that I am familiar with.

I am not convinced!

I'll return to this forum later to see others' views.

Have a good day.

11 was also my last to parse. It’s not the usual 2 letters for ‘fashionable’ but instead a 3 letter Americanism. I think I’ve heard it in song lyrics (one in particular comes to mind). Then 4 letters for ‘following’ and 1,4 for ‘some trend’.

Thanks Jono. Like Yevrah I was stuck on 11d, I now have the answer but if I understand its parsing the "some trend" is a bit weak. And I thought that the American word had a slightly different meaning, But got there in the end with your help.

Thanks Geeker .

Justsolve,
I thought the same, though Chambers has one definition of the last word as “Something in vogue” , so a trend is probably ok.

11d - Everyman is sometimes guilty of using unsignalled Americanisms. I’d never heard of these 3 meaning fashionable.