The following clues form a word chain. The last three letters of one word or phrase form the first three letters of the next word, and the list wraps round from the last word to the first. Mostly straightforward with the odd one needing the Stitchionary, but there may be one or two hyphenated words or short phrases in there, and remember it was compiled by a Brit. Quite a few there, so feel free to grab two or three

-1. Clown character Ronald Macdonald
-2. Member of a municipal legislative body alderman
-3. Tree of the genus Rhizophora mangrove
-4. In excess of what is required or suitable overkill
-5. Against the law illegal
-6. Waterproof overshoes galoshes
-7. Venus Hesperus
-8. Stratagem ruse
-9. Internet area for discussion groups Usenet
-10. Causing irritation or annoyance nettlesome
-11. Dish made from eggs omelet
-12. Printing made from raised type letterpress
-13. Eastern England county Essex
-14. Navigational aid sextant
-15. Dating from long ago antique
-16. Raise doubt question
-17. Region of Earth's atmosphere ionosphere
-18. Samuel Butler's satire on Victorian society Erewhon
-19. Of high rank honourable
-20. Issued a high-pitched warning bleeped
-21. Distance-measuring device pedometer
-22. Web-footed chelonian reptile terrapin
-23. Hand-grenade (slang) pimeapple
-24. Overabundance plethora
-25. Anthropoid ape, Pongo pygmaeus orangutan
-26. Strong distinctive flavour tang
-27. Bony, lean, gaunt angular
-28. Long noosed rope lariat
-29. Pertaining to physicians or medicine iatric
-30. Motion of a deflected object ricochet
-31. A state of being at variance with established doctrines or beliefs heterodoxy
-32. Conjoining contradictory terms oxymoron

23. pineapple

24. plentiful or plentifulness

Hi Rog.

Hi Remi - 23 looks good. but I have an alternative for 24

32. oxymoron
1. Ronald McDonald
2. alderman

3 - mangrove
4 - overfill
5 - illegal

How about plethora for 24?

25. orangutan

All look pretty good to me. I actually had "overkill", but yours works pretty good OB!

6. galoshes

You got it!

7. Hesperus

8. ruse
9. usenet
10. nettlesome

Keeping it going well, ladies!

29. iatric
30. ricochet
31. heterodoxy

26. tang
27. angular
28. lariat

Filling in the gaps very nicely!

11. Omelet
12. Letterpress
13. Essex

14. sextant
15. antique
16. question

17. Ionosphere
18. Erewhon
19. Honourable


(I notice that 23 is an interesting new type of fruit...)

20. bleeped
21. pedometer
22. terrapin

Well under 24 hours! No Mr Nice guy from now on - the old and tattered Stitchman dictionary will come into play. (The dictionary's old and tattered, not Stitchman. Or is it the other way round?)

Me and Mrs Worrier have been experimenting in the greenhouse, Lex...