A special thanks to AL for his sterling efforts deciphering DA and inspiring me to write up this DA Gold post.

21 down: #1 ranking immune to upset? (3, 4)

Read top spot backwards. And read go hang a salami, i’m a lasagna hog backwards for the fun of it while you’re at it too.

Great palindrome clue from DA, with #1 ranking = top spot = immune to upset.

7 down: My stretched cats…

I couldn’t figure out a place to start with this, and so it remained unstarted. Thankfully, AL came through with my = gee and stretched = long, giving my stretched = geelong = cats.

So short and ever so sweet!