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No posts as yet I see.! Am I the only one with a problem.?! All clear to me apart from 8a (Does this refer to the fella with the big nose.?!)
Thanks in anticipation. :

The definition is snout but as a slang word for the evil weed!

Hi raymond
Snout is the definition, but not in the sense of nose, more to do with something you smoke

Thanks Chris & Jazzie..SO obvious now.!
(Apologies to Cyrano..!) :

Odd one today. I read through it after golf and lunch and solved nothing, so I put it aside and finished the book I was reading. I picked it up again and everything seemed fairly straightforward...........................except that I haven't parsed 17d
Most of the tree disease covered with mixture (7)

I have a word for "mixture", which includes an anagram of a three letter tree, but that's as far as I've got! Any explanation would be welcome.

'Most of a Tree, but not all' - inside a disease (often of animals)

Thanks mamya - I was distracted by the first letter.

Looks like most people have managed this one without help, but I am left with 6d, ?T?E?, and 24a, ?T?LE. I got the final E of 24a from solving the programme but I think it is right.

24 is a sounds like, chic and fence crossing

cat on lap, so can't reach the rt - what was the other clue?