Never knowingly undersolved
Despite my misgivings over the spelling of the answer to 24ac (yes I know. Language does move on and we can’t just go along with what people said some while ago. But a pity that this moving on is dictated by someone in television making a mistake) this is a very pleasant crossword, accessible, with good clues — the one that I don’t understand will I trust be explained by someone.
Definitions underlined.
The puzzle may be found at http://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/cryptic/26790.
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Submitted by John Henderson.
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