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I'm really struggling with this. It's themed, involves no clue numbers - and there are 'extra single letters yielded by the wordplay, in all clues.'
Fluid fixture of NE Spain advanced gas (6)
e?????
Heady elixir and cocaine involved in expulsion (6) e?????

Thanks for any help of any kind.

Second one - exilic - anagram of elixir and C for cocaine minus the spare letter R

Thanks - greatly appreciated.

Ethyne.

The penny's just dopped on this one for me. At last - this was tough Not yet sure how to carry out the replacement required by the extra letters. Thinking time...

Okay got what I have to do. Haven't yet found what I do it to...

Barista, thanks. I ground to a halt with this, having solved only half of the clues. It all seemed v complicated - was it worth it?

Still not complete - I know what sort of words I'm looking for in the final grid and exactly what to replace them with when I find them - but I can't find them!

The jigsaw is a bit gimmicky I think on this one (contrast the inq a few weeks ago with acrobats and the like) but worth persevering with. The key to the jigsaw element is the top left corner - there 's only 1 possibility for the 4 letter, 7 letter and 9 letter entries up there.

Barista, I might persevere.
In the top left, I have the answers to...
Perpetrator of...
Live with a fundamentalist...
After one game...
It'd be great to know if this was correct.
PS. I really enjoyed the jigsaw/acrobat one.

That's right.

If it makes it easier, the author (in the shaded squares) reads from left to right and top to bottom (so his name begins with the first letter of the answer to 'Perpetrator of...') - once you have the author, the identity of the 2 characters falls into place.

Thanks again, barista - it's who I thought it was!