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There's probably dozens of people, like myself, who are finding this week's puzzle particularly difficult. I have many gaps, but would particularly appreciate help with one of the two longest clues, and that is 18 Down, which reads "Battered car (Golf) multistorey may track and film". It would appear to be a film and an anagram of three of the words in the clue. The answer also consists of three words (7,7,4) and I have
---I-A- M------ -O--.

Actually it’s an anagram of four words in the clue, it’s just that one of them is reduced to a single letter. Hopefully that should help… :-)

Thanks, Jono I'll bring the phonetic alphabet into play and see what turns up!

Rocketman, completely agree, utterly impenetrable this week. Like you I can see that 18d is an anagram, the definition is probably 'film' or maybe 'track and film' but as it's an 18 word anagram I haven't got a hope of solving it.

A few I've got (and there aren't many) that I don't understand:

20a Wound, not quite septic, that finally is to return again (2-5).
Re-elect, I think. Why 'not quite septic'?

38a Offence at Rugby which Dr Arnold was there to stop (5,2,3,4)
Looks like 'Knock on the head'. I get that a knock-on is some sort of foul in rugby, and that Dr Arnold was headmaster at Rugby School, but why was he trying to stop knock-ons?,

3d…as this comes reportedly indeed (5)
As this begins with ellipsis I should say the previous answer is 'From the horse's mouth', so I think this is 'neigh', but what's the definition?

Wound, not quite = REELE(d), then last letters of septiC thaT

From the horses mouth this comes = NEIGH, sounds like NAY (indeed)

Chambers gives "knock on the head" as "To suppress, put an end to"

38a
Knock on the head = to stop
You've got the two references to rugby offence and Rugby School

Thank you buddy. I didn't think nay meant indeed, in fact I thought it meant the opposite (yes meaning indeed, nay meaning no).

I really should give this up, it’s so little fun, but a long one across the top might help.

7a A number to be received by granma (2,4,5).