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well nearly done but stuck on 20d/27a Pice of a thousand flowers in a department

?A?T?? S?N???S any help much appreciated

Mastersingers?

Thanks ann

Any chance of understanding this one please??

City of 10's bird - ?I?V (10 is Lohengrin)

Can see what it should be , but can make no sense of why.

Mamya-KIEV as in chicken kiev referring to hen in other answer?

Oooh interesting thank you.

I'm sure that's the correct reasoning. Bizarrely (or not), however, Lohengrin's bird was the swan - and one of the legendary founders of the Ukrainian city was Lybid, whose name means exactly that.

Still missing a couple in top left corner.

Composer is god if he changes ends (6)

Have B_A_ _ _

Must be Brahms, surely - but why?

And :

City channel (English, not English) has broken rest (10)

Is it Manchester? Fits, but again don't understand why.

Thanks in advance!

HJ.

Brahms is correct. Brahma is the god.

Manche is French for Channel without the
e [not English]then anagram of rest. I think if you change the s to a in Brahms you get the name of a Hindu God.