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[rsvp]

Think I may be wrong in the bottom l/h corner - any help appreciated.
17d Loud style of piano playing not without heart - I have strident - this answers loud and not without heart but where does the piano playing come in?
Am also not too sure of how 24d - Perhaps Oxford society has bowling venue at back - I have shoe - anagram of has and O for Oxford?. Something to do with Oxford shoe? can't see the connection with bowling venue. Many thanks and I know I'm going to kick myself!

[mac44]

Stride is a style of piano playing.

[rsvp]

thank you mac - we live and learn - I did try and look that up but my dictionary didn't offer that definition.

[mac44]

The best I can come up with is society = S, HOE are a string of bowling venues, Oxford is the SHOE.

[factor-fiction]

Shoe isn't an anagram of HAS and O, i'm afraid.

[factor-fiction]

Hoe- isn't that where Francis Drake played Bowls. Add the S for Society.
If Oxford is known as the SHOE as mac44 says then it's right

[factor-fiction]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plymouth_Hoe
"Plymouth Hoe is perhaps best known for the probably apocryphal story that Sir Francis Drake played his famous game of bowls here in 1588 before sailing out with the English fleet to engage with the Spanish Armada. "

[factor-fiction]

Of course Oxford is a type of shoe

[rsvp]

I can't even get a four letter anagram correct today - have silly of me !
Thank you Mac amd Factor 30 - the connection with Hoe and bowls sounds right.
Appreciate the effort.