"UNLESS JUSTIFIED IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST"
Exactly that.

Ha, I'm pretty sure I know where you're going there ... go for it!

Hi Derek, I would strongly advise codjuma to submit their puzzle (with solutions and annos) to mycrossword.co.uk. For constructive and helpful feedback, it is second to none.

Good grief. Go to your room this instant! Ha..

Judging by poor Jasper's expression he's clearly just had a gander at mine!

Spot on, fella – that puppy-killer is absolutely despicable. Horror show.

Ha, best of British, fella. I'm never knowingly kind!

Ha, I ain't for turning mate – as you well know!
I love skewering extremely strict men struggling to crack language?

Stuff and nonsense! Have you no soul, man?!

Ha, you may be underestimating the power of a muscular question mark..

Ha, you lawyers are killing me! NEWSILK (is) "out" = WINKLES (lunch as definition by example, hence the QM)

New Silk’s out for lunch? (7)
(tis the best I can do off the top of my head!)

Funny weird, sure! I just think Henri missed a trick there. His argument would have been better expressed in words of one syllable (explanation: a single sound or word). Seriously though, go with your gut, mate. Your question implied that you suspect "replaced" IS too tricky, so trust your judgement

Substantively, eh? Christ on a bike!

Ha, I KNEW you'd say that!

I say no! If it's OK for the Times QC – and it is – why the devil not?

Yep, spot on. What a bunch, eh? Saudi and Qatar are, of course, renowned freedom experts and Pakistan's a peace-loving pussy-cat. Etc. All chaired by a Mac&Cheese-eating surrender monkey hiding behind masked thugs with guns and a huge piggy bank. We are truly living in a post-ironic world.

What's the enumeration?!

And now he’s debarred Canada from his comedy peace board. What a clown. Wouldn’t it be a delicious irony if those massive bruises on those tiny hands were because of actual bone spurs? The original TACO tactic that kept him COMPLETELY off the front lines – unlike our troops.