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Wordplay "might" have a single incorrect letter
2d Run north, covering one's tracks (6) L????N
3d Publisher without editors attends to Will's fool (5) O????

publisher possibly OED? shakepeare fool?

40a Bridge partners prepare a punch (4) ??E?

40 Brew

Br (bridge) E (East) W (West)

Long shot - Ordnance Survey gives Br as abbreviation for bridge. EW would be bridge partners- brew - prepare punch? Not confident......

Lot more confident now that Mamya has said the same thing......

Chambers has 'br' - bridge.

2d Loipen?

http://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/loipe

3 Ouphe is a Shakesepearean (Will's) oaf, fool. The OUP is Oxford University Press, but I can't parse anything else.

Could it be he(eds) ?

Thanks, that works perfectly.

Thank you very much everyone ...that should get me going again!