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last four! Just can't get them
30a approximately the same (4,2,3)
I have /o/e // /e//
37a beautiful female left in jeopardy (5)
I have //r//
19d change for the worse that makes boy become yob
31d there's understanding in the docks after strike
I have /e/e////

Any help greatly appreciated!

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Not sure about 19 down yet

19d reversal

Actually Dotty, I'm only that clue (19d) short of finishing.

But you could give me a hand explaining two that are not sitting with me right, can't seem to catch the word play in these.

1a) Service very deficient in the hairdressers? One must try to improve business. (11)

S - L - S - E - S - N.

I'm going with Salesperson but can only see SALON

7a) Man who is wise coming out with a Latin phrase (4,7)

H - M -, S - P - E - S

Man = Homo Sapiens which is Latin... but is that it?

I was looking at Reversal Paul, but again I can't see how its gotten, could you explain the boy - yob bit

Hi Les!

Reverse BOY = YOB

Also; Vespers (a service0 - V = espers

1a, the service is (v)espers.

Bloody Nora! I'm kicking myself
Cheers Paul and Rusty
I know that vespers are evening prayers but it just didn't click, and Boy - Yob Reversed... Oh well thanks again chaps I've finished now

thanks Les40 and Paul. Sorry, can't help with an explanation for homo sapiens, it just fitted and I knew it must be the right answer, without really understanding why!

Sapiens comes from the Latin word for wise, in English we have sapient and sapience meaning wise or wisdom.Homo means man or the human genus. So, to me, homo sapiens is a Latin phrase for "man who is wise".