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I'd love to help, but I have struggled with some of the word play this week. I've solved it through elimnation more that anything else.

Hi toalisi - my take on the former leader is nar(k) for the agent with Hess for the noted prisoner - H the extra letter. And have just discovered that irade is a written edict of a Muslim leader which gives TD as the Irish parliamentarian, D being the extra letter.

Many thanks Annie for two great answers.

Wish I'd seen this before-didn't realise this sort of thing went on ! Have had a big struggle this week and appear to be in the same postion as most of you have been-most of grid filled but totally bamboozled by a couple of clues.If anyones still reading this can I have some help/explanation of 10 ac and 39 ac PLEASE !

Hello Jon - I have sedent for 39a. It fits the definition and I have den for haunt and apparently sept is a division of a clan which I only discovered goggling back from the answer. I am guessing conchi is the answer to 10a but haven't worked out why. And what do you mean - this sort of thing!!??!! Laura, toalisi and I are perfectly normal people (I think!) Hope you join us lol

Hi jon.nice for you to join us in the underworld of the ev. My answers correspond with annies'. I also have sedent for 39ac. I'm sure I'll be picking someones brains again tomorow.

Hi Anniec and Laura ! Thanks for your help-also it's nice to know there's others out there undergoing similar problems solving EV's . This week I'm still puzzled - I have the author as Sylvia Townsend Warner,but then can only guess the 6 unclued words as cowherd keel mentioners lintel throb and marne which I've done some searches on and come up with nothing so presume I'm way off mark ! Do you do this every week ? And how would I find it again { I'm a bit of a computer novice }

Hello Jon - the unclued letters are all anagrams of soups (minestrone, broth, leek etc) - as per the quote "The soup is chaos"
Laura and I have sporadically posted EV queries and toalisi has just joined in. There isn't a way to search on the site (at lest not that I know!) Just look for a thread with EV in the name - and feel free to post one yourself if you want a clue and think any of us can help. I found ev 915 not too bad but I'm stuck on 23a)! Cheers

Hi Anniec ! Thanks for your info-hopefully will be able to track you down in future ! If you haven't got there yet , the answer to 23ac is the bottom line-Mr Micawber's guiding principle in life. Now to try and work out the extra bits which is always where I struggle-big lack of imagination !