7/10 I've seen the Porn clue before, and I still don't believe it.
Otherwise, very nice board.

A difficulty compounded by "ruck" which is even harder for me to believe.

Ruck /rʌk/; rook /rʊk/. Only works if you come from oop narth.

@urbanbaboon. Yes, you saw it in grid 15317. As I said in the comments at the time, "porn" wouldn't work with American pronunciation but in Standard English the R isn't pronounced before a consonant sound, making it a true homophone of "pawn".

Ok apart from ruck

Got this out... but ruck? No.

Really surprised by the comments about ruck. I would pronounce them the exact same way and I'm from near Chester in England. I can't visualise any other way of pronouncing them to not be accurate for the purposes of this question.

Ruck is no way pronounced the same as rook!

How would you pronounce them then?

Rook/ruck and Porn/pawn homonyms definitely do not work with a Scottish accent either I’m afraid...for a start there’s two syllables in the word “porn” 😂...but I saw where you were going...

Time for a bath or is it a barth for the hoity-toity or a beth for the Queen.

To add to the Ruck debate... many people say ruck with an 'uh' sound, and rook 'oo' sound. Otherwise, good one!

We can't agree about homophones unless we use a common frame of reference. Standard English and Standard American English are familiar to everyone, including those who speak a non-standard variety of the language. Online dictionary definitions usually include phonetic transcriptions (/fəˈnet.ɪk trænˈskrɪp.ʃənz/). It's easy to check whether two words that are spelt differently have identical transcriptions or not. Otherwise, we'll be seeing more debates like this one.

My criticism isn't meant as anything.
As a US Fan of the game, there's about 30% of things you all take as common, I literally never heard of. And if you've played my board, I get a lot of grief for being "tremendously obscure." The homophone thing works like that.
These should just be chalked up to cultural differences, not taken offence to, nor too seriously, and one can play one of the other 10K boards out there.

Cool. I think I will avoid links based on pronunciation for a while, nevertheless :-)

Calm down ladies

Calm down ladies

What's the problem? A really good grid. Well done.