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9a My knowledge may be understood (3). Is the answer Lor, please, as lor can be used as an exclamation and also sounds like lore?

Yes, I took it as Lor, Lor! and also (possibly) sounding like/may be understood, heard, as Lore, knowledge.

Thanks, Malone.

There a couple of others which I think I've got, but with which I'm not totally satisfied:

1a Stage acts for family members coming later? (8)

S _ E _ M _ M _

STEPMUMS?

28a Beauty of headland, at first light.

_ A _ R _ E _ S

FAIRNESS?

Any comments?

Fairness can mean beauty (archaic). Ness (headland) after fair (light)

Step is stage and a mum is an act (in a silent play)

More accurately (I think) a mummer is an actor and to mum is to act