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Just picked this up so forgive me if I missed something. It's by Fed - check. Geeker's passing of 4d works - check. But where is 10a??

Hi Rocky, I think some of the reference to 10a below are in fact 12a.

As I got into it Jono I figured that. Thanks.

All done and definitely on the easier side but not without some brilliant clues and a bit of clever misdirection. I'm picking 8a as my COD for that reason. Many of the answers were gettable from crossers and then it was a question of parsing. Which is why it was on the gentler side.

Have a good Saturday all.

I enjoyed this. LOI 12a - very clever. Not sure I liked the "first lady" reference in8d, though!

Not fully parsed 24a. Where's the clerk?

Hi Chris, the first three words are all ‘unwrapped’.

Thanks jono. At least I had the right answer, though my partial parsing was faulty!

I'm probably missing something dead obvious - I have the answer to 26a, I can see how the last 3 letters are derived but not the first three. Any advice?

I think it's just a different way of saying "to get".

Chrise
Re 8d, the First Lady is normally capitalised thus and is contemporary.

Oh sorry, ChrisE. I misread: you clearly got it but didn’t like it. I thought it was novel and rather clever, but the non-capitalisation is questionable and perhaps that was your quibble!