Quick crossword No 235

Thanks Hasslethymi, a pleasant diversion on a long Friday evening here in Tasmania. I assume the publication in magazines means you intend it to be fairly gentle, which it was for the most part. But there were some fun constructions in there and effective misdirections. I particularly admired 11a, 19a, 24a, 2d, 6d, & 8d among others. Not having annotated solutions available left me with questions about my parsing of a couple, but on the whole quite solid. A couple of queries in reply, spoilers..