Good morning solvers. Firstly, a big thank you to mc_rapper67 for passing on his Saturday Indy slot to me. It’s a very big pair of metaphorical shoes to fill.
Thanks to Bluth for this lovely puzzle. Typically for them there’s a few quite oblique cryptic references to navigate, and one that I still can’t convincingly parse. Overall though, there was enough to make it a challenge, but still pleasant enough for a bleary-eyed Saturday morning.
Definition (surface) words are underlined in the clues.