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am finding this week's cryptic quite trying
49 a layman featuring finally in offsprigs story
s?n?s?.i?h presumably SONGSMITH. Is a songsmith a layman ?
54a creature burrowing in short embankment by motorway e???o??

A lay is a song as in Lay of the Last Minstrel?

The number of letters may be off but is it earthworm? Short embankment (earthwork) +m for motorway?

Thanks AB.