I don’t usually print our morning crossword solutions here, though occasionally elsewhere. Today, though, 1 Across could be of general interest, the clue not the anagrammatic solution.
There’s a site which explains the clues and offers answers Monday to Friday after 11am, Greenwich Mean Time. But while you’re here you might like a few explanations of the answers.
9 across Dicky Bird was a famous cricket umpire .Dicky-bird is also rhyming slang for “word”, especially in the phrase “not a dicky-bird” as a response to “have you heard from …?
1 down Paddington is a station in London. Paddington Bear is a cartoon character who weears a duffel coat.
28 across Heath Robinson

14 down Botticelli, anagram of “rabid collie bit” + t for “time”

I don’t suppose our astonishing ex-Prince looks daily at the Telegraph cryptic crossword?
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