4a Having ???u????, the answer had to be summer and you + I =we therefore the answer was “wesummer”. I’d never heard of it but that hasn’t stopped me correctly working out answers and then not putting them in. Probably something to do with the Catholic Church thought I.

13a Could there be a more obvious anagram indicator than “trains” and “drunken men” has 10 letters. So all I needed was to find a word for how wine could be described.

8d If broadcast isn’t an indication of a homophone, I don’t know what is. So I clearly wanted a word that sounded like a word for “end of race” and was a place in Africa. I tried “finish”, “chequered flag” “break the tape” and so on –but all in vain.

17d With ?e? for the first word, the answer had to be red something

10a, 5d Spotted the anagram material but couldn’t work it out.

The only word I hadn’t heard of was 21a.

Too tough for me but looked fair enough.