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I do have a Chambers, malone, but I thought ought was non-mainstream enough to be right.

Aristo, I thought the same (about Ought) too, but it simply didn't work for the clue - so I had a little browse in Chambers... and Oucht appeared and made perfect sense. I think your instincts told you there was something not quite right about Ought!

I'm struggling to finish bottom left. I don't see where the final T correction comes from...
Also stuck on 35 and 36- Add force in dilemma. A??N?
Fellow raised office idiom. ??OL

Fellow...Fool. The 'office' is Loo, add F for Fellow.

35 Affix - A Fix,dilemma, with F, force, inside.

Sorry, I forgot your T- 36 Down.

I have finished this except for 34 across (unclued) It has 5 letters, and I am missing the middle one, which could be 'i', 'o' or 'a'. I am unable to parse 19 down, and 40 across. I am not giving my answers so as not to be a spoiler.

34 A is clued - have you given the wrong number?

In 19 D the second letter can mean See - it's from Latin and is in Chambers. The rest of it has standard crossword stuff, including a three-letter word for 'valley'.

Thanks Malone. I printed it out from the Spectator site and it was 'widowed' or 'orphaned' in the printout. The middle letter is obviously 'i'. My answer for 19 down would be a description of Didier Drogba, for instance. I have seen the Latin for 'see'. Cannot see the 'valley', and 40 across is still a mystery, and is keeping me from my rest.

19 I, I +V, see, +On(working) +Ria, valley. I v o ria n.

40 A is a bit of a mystery to me too. I'll mull it over.