Cryptic crossword No 2,029

Thanks Autiartist, good fun. My favourites were 11a, 4d & 17d. Spoilers ...

Some good ideas in here. Fez has made some great points and given good advice. Looking back at my comments on your first, I think he is saying what I said then and I'd repeat it: Fewer words, consistency of parts of speech and plurals/singular and same-sidedness are the major issues. On top of which (!) I'd add, start as you will hopefully go on and give thought to the surfaces too. Some of the short ones are neat; by contrast, 6a, 9a, 20a, 6d, 18d don't really convey a sensible message ...