A little late perhaps, but I share your view about Dido, Eileen.

And while thanks are due to shuchi, I think describing Sir Lawrence Olivier as a celebrated actor in the “early 1900s” hardly does justice to a man whose careeer spanned over half of that century.

And I too fell into the “Ein” trap for didgeridoo at first.

In my opinion, this puzzle was similar to an Everyman, also in the style of clueing, where his Falcon puzzles normally have just thát little bit extra.
All this is no criticism, nor disdain for anyone who found it challenging.
We all experience crosswords in our own way.

Moreover, I like to emphasise that to me Falcon is a very good setter.
And as there are so many admirers of Everyman (look at the number of posts every Sunday), there must be solvers whose hearts will beat faster when they see the name of his alter ego in the FT.
Not sure whether all these solvers know that Everyman = Falcon.
Sometimes I would like to start a campaign to make Observer solvers aware of this, if necessary, to ‘seduce’ them to this (often lonely) corner of Fifteensquared.

Re Redshank, I agree with you that especially the second Redshank was very easy. But I think, comparing them ends here. Redshank uses techniques very different from Falcon’s, in particular he puts a lot of thought into the surface reading of his clues (which are similar in style to his more fiendish alter egos Radian and Crucible, both(?) much admired by me).
I haste to say that this doesn’t say anything about Falcon!

Thank you, shuchi, for your blog, most appreciated.
It was clear that 20d was ENDORSE, but your wise words made clear that my parsing was wrong. Thought that NDO might perhaps be a kind of degree, placed inside ERSE (English Language). Oops, English? Gaelic!

No DIDGERIDOO problems for me [apart from spelling it wrong initially].
No problems with Dido either, saw it immediately.
Fine performer [saw her about 7 years ago in Rotterdam], lovely woman too. A real shame that there’s no place for her anymore in a world full of Gaga’s and Perry’s.
English folk-rockers The Levellers, a band I have seen many many times, had at one point a didgeridoo player on stage. And in Utrecht, my ‘home town’, we had a street artist with that long thing, a boring thing, in my opinion.

Sorry for jumping in – I thought you might have gone to bed [I'm not absolutely sure of the time difference. ]

I sympathise: I committed two ‘sins of omission’ on my own blog today!

As Bryan says, if you’ve heard of Rolf Harris, you’ll know of the didgeridoo and if not … [they're practically inseparable.]

This is what it sounds like:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAd59mJ7dsU

One more thing: as a Classicist, I find it poignant to see DIDO clued as ‘pop singer’ – but we must move with the times …

Hi Mike Card

14dn is GER I DO [party] in DIDO.

And is the word “party” completely unnecessary ?