The Times 28806 About

[TioMateo]

Irritatingly, I didn't get round to starting this until last night, and then got stuck in the bottom left-hand corner because of 22Dn and failed to submit on time.

I empathise with Lie-in King about jewel being used as a homophone for duel, but that wasn't the cause of my undoing and subsequent irritation. Having solved 28A/c (LAY READER), I was looking at ????L for 22Dn (Prize fight is broadcast (5)), and almost immediately solved it as MEDAL (Prize) plus a homophone of same being MEDDLE, which Chambers confirmed as one of the meanings of FIGHT, albeit Shakespearean.  

It never occurred to me that MEDAL could be wrong, so I was doomed.

In fairness to the setter, I really enjoyed the (rest of the) puzzle, as there were a lot of challenging (but eventually satisfying) clues.

My only query is with the wordplay of 1A/c :-  On radio, Britain's leader clarified way to go (5) B?A?O.  I understand the definition (B being the first letter of Britain and also being BRAVO in the phonetic alphabet), but how on earth does "clarified way to go" fit in?   TIA.

[brainiac]

Bravo is the Nato alphabet for B

Bravo is what is called out after a good performance, as Americans do when they shout out 'way to go!'