Hi all! Apologies for the delayed release; I’ve been abroad for the last few days and aeroplanes aren’t perfectly conducive to setting. This week’s grid has a minor theme linking eleven of the answers, so see if you can spot it—good luck! 👵🦆 (parses)

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Martha & Doug on 2023-04-08

Hi there again from your friends in Canada. We are unsure about 15D, where the best we can come up with is perhaps an AB OUT speaker connexion "jack" on a stereo receiver. Thanks again for your puzzles, we are having a great time solving them!

Anonymous on 2023-04-08

Thanks so much! "jack" and "AB (able-bodied seaman)" are both terms for sailor, while OUT is charaded by "specifically trying" (as in "he's out to get me" or "I'm out to win the trophy")

Martha & Doug on 2023-04-10

Thanks! Will have to remember this AB = sailor thing. We are learning quite a lot of acronyms, and Doug is convinced that every four-letter grouping is British slang for something. :)