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Thanks again chips.

I've got the 16a & 12d connections & now I know what I'm looking for I'm optimistic.

In case it hasn't been mentioned already: the title of the puzzle, correctly understood, gives a big hint as to the meaning of the 4-word phrase, of which the last word is then the key to the missing bits of the words clued in italics, & thus the other 4 describing them, too (if that's comprehensible)!

Am I correct in connecting 3d with 13a?

Rosie, yes - am sure you'll rattle the rest off now!

Thanks chips you've been very supportive.

Finished but quite difficult I thought but all nicely put together. 26ac was my last one in, I get the politician and the graft but where is abandoned in this? Is it the "n" from "in", meaning current.