Firstly, apologies for not adding a explanation of “a case of up sticks”, I was meaning to go back and check The House at Pooh Corner to understand the joke – having done so, I’m sure jvh’s explanation is right. (Not having read it since a child, I’d quite forgotten how good it is.)

Biggles A: thanks, PLAN + TA to give Planta genista must be it. I’ll update the post.

RCWhiting: thanks for the pointing out the typo – I’ll fix that.

tupu: I also particularly liked OTTER. Sorry,you’re quite right that I should have put RIC[hes] rather than RIC[h].

Eileen: “charming” is a good way of putting it – with all the memories the long clues inspired, I found it a pleasantly nostalgic solve. Thanks for the origin of “plantagenets”, as well – as time goes on, the amount of history I’m learning through crosswords and 15² is easily going to overtake what I learned at school…

SteveC: sorry that the table doesn’t render well – I’ll try to find someone with an iPhone too see how it’s rendered, and perhaps try something different next month… (It’s fine on my smartphone, for what it’s worth.)

On a purely practical note, can I put in a request for these solutions not to be set as a table? It makes it harder to read on my iPhone. (My wife and I always do the crosswords in bed on a weekend morning, and I don’t use my computer at weekends.)

The usual Araucarian fun. I think SNOWMAN was my last in, since it took a while for the offensive/abominable penny to drop. A very neat clue.

When it comes to Milne, though, I’m with Dorothy Parker: “Tonstant weader fwowed up.”

Can you explain how the misleading reference to MND fits the clue ?.

I enjoyed this puzzle and have been waiting for someone to ask a particular question.
As no-one has, then it must be me who is lacking and not one of the cognoscenti.
Why is the ‘D’ of Dream capitalised in 17a ?. I can think of a reason but it’s rather
tenuous so is there a more specific reason maybe connected with A A Milne ?.

I particularly liked OTTER and TRIPLICATE. Thanks Arry.

Thanks mhl; perhaps in 7 ‘lot’ means ‘a separate portion’ [Chambers.] I did like SNOWMAN.

Thanks also to Eileen for her Plantagenet information; obviously my primary school was much inferior.

Eeyore’s house was made of sticks and mistakenly moved by Pooh and Piglet from its original location to Pooh Corner. Hence the definition “case of up sticks” in 1D.

I was unsure about 4d – I had the snowman as a short-lived character – but did not see the ‘offensive’ aspect. Thanks to mhl for the explanation.