The usual thing: every clue has a silky-smooth surface that never compromises the parsing. I thought this was on the hard side for a Dac and it took me some while to understand one or two, particularly 23ac, which I almost gave up on, but my parsing is I think what he intended, although perhaps it is on the edge compared with Dac’s usual.
Financial Times 14,905 / Redshank
Not for the first time, two rogue black squares have crept into the grid and messed up the numbering. However, once this …