Thanks Malone and Sudokulover. I figured out 'dey' as the pasha eventually. It really should have been -'s brass- rather than 'Is brass', but not at the beginning of a sentence.
I have two which are bugging me. 19 ac Chopin, historically, is the face of reduced contract (8) ?anyof?e and 33ac Scots well-off versify wanting mass snese of comfort (8, two words) b?e??t??