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Thanks Buddy - quite a work-out!

Very nice clues as usual, nifty structure. Thanks, buddy.
I don’t get the wordplay of 18A.

18a, store = cache, I think?

Thanks, buddy. This was exceptionally good.

Thank, Buddy. I had a smile at the "web-based foodies" and "the first sign of Big-foot"
I thought I was off to a flying start with group 9, but groups 3 and 4 were a bit more tricky.
I still don't see 26d. I have U?NE

It's OK, I just found him.

I was surprised that non-US residents could get 26d. Hadn't heard of it for many years and wasn't aware it still exists.

buddy @4: Of course! Thanks!

geeker: Same here.

It ceased publication in 2019 and there are no articles on its web site dated after 2021, so it appears to be defunct, living on only in the occasional NYT or WSJ crossword answer. So rather than GK it is CK (crossword knowledge).

The New Yorker recently ran a cartoon called A Crossword Odyssey about such words:

https://tinyurl.com/NYercrossword