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36a Secret rites e.g in wA*rship from republic, exporting germanium (4)
43a In India they drO*ve one case out before second (6)

Grateful for any help.
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* In think these are the misprinted letters

Hello Jilly - you are right with the misprint letters

The republic is a russian one and yiu take off the first two letters Last letter is outside the grid

Last one is an anagram of cases with i for one and s for second.

Hope this helps

Thanks so much anniec you've been very helpful on this crossword.
You are a clever lady!

Glad I was of help Jilly but believe me I'm no clever lady! - this is one of the few EVs I've been able to complete and that after much effort!!

You're too modest.

One final thing, and it doesn't affect the final grid, but what is spelled out by the 11 clues per the preamble?

Thanks J

Hi Jilly In Antarctic - andto prove I'm not so clever it took me ages to realise that inant was not the first word as I got arctic early on! See you for 946 when I'll be asking for help!!

See you next week!

Thanks again.

J