Cryptic crossword No 273

Nice work, Panthera. I liked the refreshing use of internet slang in some of the clues. 8a, 13a, 14a, 21a, 7d and 12d were all neat. 11d was my favourite, although I would personally say it didn't need the exclamation mark

Fantastic work! I loved the anagrams, like 23a and 18a, and the use of phrases in, e.g. 12d and 1d, and 8a is lovely. Great stuff.

Very nice work - 4d stumped me (never heard of the word, and as a result the wordplay just wouldn't come out), and I couldn't parse 15d without help. 10a, 13a, and 11d were my favourites, along with the lovely 18a.

Excellent and difficult, thanks Panthera! My favourites: 8A, 10A, 18A, 2D, 7D. Spoily thoughts in reply...

Nice work! I admit I struggled with quite a few here, I don't mind convoluted parsings as a rule, and this was on a par with Vlad or Enigmatist. Particularly liked 1A (your annotated reasoning is sound) 13A (nicely misleading) 17A, 18A, 21A, 23A, 3D, 11D (brilliant!) 22D. Couple of quibbles/questions and SPOILERS in reply

Thanks Panthera - there’s some really inventive and impressive clues in here, quite a bit of it too tricky for me but that’s my problem! I picked up many of the niggles listed by Blah but that’s not to detract from the overall excellence of the puzzle. I particularly liked 9A, 18A, 12D, 18D and 22D plus 1A, 13A and 11D once I’d cheated!