Of more interest to lovers of wordplay is a story recounted by Liberal MP Robert Bernays in his diary entry for June 26, 1934, in which Margot Asquith corrects Jean Harlow’s mispronunciation of her first name — “No, no; the ‘t’ is silent, as in ‘Harlow”.

I have added the cricket reference to 5, which doesn’t figure in my old CD-ROM version of Chambers, although my Chambers iPod app does list it!!

Andy Warhol is, of course, most famous for his prints of Marilyn Monroe but Jean Harlow was also a source of fascination to him, as attested by his 1964 film “Harlot”. Thanks for the reminder of the Madonna lyric, which was probably the first time I ever heard of this actress.

Surely 7d is a misdirection rather than an &lit. Andy Warhol was famous for his prints of Marilyn Monroe, another blonde bombshell, not Jean Harlow.

I read this every day, but have never posted before.

I’m probably not representative of 25-year-olds, but HARLOW was my first answer too (the anagram has stuck with me from an old Listener crossword, but she’s also mentioned in Madonna’s Vogue).

And not that I’m bragging (much), but I parsed HANDBAGS AT DAWN because I wanted to put in …BIG… given the crossers, before seeing the whole answer. It was a surprise, though.

The whole thing was right up my street.

Thank you, Nestor and RatkojaRiku.

It was a good challenge for a Thursday, nothing outstanding but nothing to complain about either. It didn’t take us quite as long as usual but we did have to use a word search for 17d which was our last in. We were looking at a word where you could change a ‘d’ to an ‘n’ but just couldn’t quite see it.

Thanks Nestor for the workout!

I didn’t find this one a lorra laughs, but I was pleased to finish it, because a couple of years ago I wouldn’t have, so I must be getting a bit better at this puzzle stuff (probably because I hang out here most days). That said, I needed you to explain a good number of clues, which is generally an indication that a crossword is a bit over my horizon. I would never have parsed HANDBAGS AT DAWN if I’d been here till breakfast time tomorrow, so thanks for that (and if I’m being critical, it’s a massively convoluted clue for a daily cryptic). But SOMNAMBULISTIC was a nice anagram and INHERE was also good.

I think the O for ‘over’ in PUT TO BED is just the usual cricket abbreviation. Although today is not a good day to mention the cricket.

Thank you to Nestor for the puzzle.