I’d certainly echo everyone’s positive comments about this very enjoyable puzzle, while sharing various reservations about LET’S WAIT – not a notable enough phrase to be a crossword answer, in my opinion.

In EUROSCEPTIC, I wondered why Philistine went with “fully Mr” instead of just “Mister”. As the clue appears in the puzzle, it’s borderline unfair that the anagram fodder isn’t letter-for-letter present in the clue. (My understanding was that very common indicators that lead to single (or double?) letters are acceptable as anagram fodder, but otherwise the letters really should be present in the clue…)

Thanks. I had been puzzled. I suppose it depends on how big the tag was and where the pedant stuck it .

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPlEuIpxp4o

The two relate to different elements in the clue. Broken thong relates to the fact that the word for removal is in broken form. Fancy is the anagram indicator for the rest.

Thanks for your gratuitous delphic comment re 15d. Now that is something incomprehensible.

Re 15, I think you should have gone with the sticker/ stickler continuum.

Re the surface of 15d, the scenario of the surface is perhaps not one that springs immediately to mind, but the idea of someone who prides themselves on getting things right mistakenly leaving a price tag or sticker in, say, a book or other (wrapped) present is scarcely incomprehensible.

Re 7D, I was in the pub tonight where a friend said to me, “I’ve just got one left to do, can you help?”.

TTFN!

The (very) good thing about Philistine is that he clearly wants every single clue to be a winner. Thoughtfulness in optima forma.
But there was some sloppiness, in our opinion.
PeterO (thanks for your blog), I appreciate your explanantion of ‘leaving us’ in 2d, but we called it ‘clumsy’ (perhaps even wrong).
And ‘reversal of’ for FO is not what I would like to do. After all, it’s a reversal OF OF.
Where others found “Spikes on shoes” a highlight, we found it rather weak. Apparently, it has been done before (see @4), but that can be a coincidence. What we didn’t like is that LACES are ‘something’ on shoes, not just ‘on shoes’.
In the same category we have TRACHEA (18d), defined as “in the neck”. Not precise enough to my/our taste.

Apart from all this (and the, sorry, unforgivable double use of ACHE – oh, and the incomprehensible surface of 15d) quite a good crossword.
On the easy side, but clearly a product of a setter for whom each clue matters.