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43a- Bloodhound at seaside, wandering, with
viral illness (11, two words) ?Y?ES?S?A??

lyme disease

many thanks

Can you help with -

40a Our Ferdinand the Elder turned about
for extremist party member (11) ?O?NT???E??

I have a mismatch between 40ac and 16dn. Obviously got something wrong. 40 ?o?nt?r?ee? And 16 ?nu?e?at?o?
Could someone tell me which letter(s) I have got wrong?
All else completed.

Your 'r' in 40 A is wrong.

Thank you Malone. I couldn't spell the birdies. Must have been thinking of Peter!

Terry, the 'Ferdinand' is Ferdinand MOUNT - I'm not sure how to parse the whole answer, but that's the beginning of the solution.

elder = aine + re = about

Ok, all sorted but still can't parse 40ac. Where's Ferdi? I had a much ruder way of asking that but thought I might be banned.