I quite enjoyed this. Plenty to disentangle, thanks to the jumbles, and one of the toughest of the year, so a welcome change. Lots of wide-ranging thematic material, even if the linkage was a... ...
Is there a misprint in 11 down? "Disturbance in field scattered old fragments in two minutes (8,5)" The answer must be MAGNETIC STORM, but for the wordplay to work that requires "scattered" to be...