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All clues are normal. Within each row or column, any occurrences of a certain letter in clued answers must be removed before entry into
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35d - Investigator overseeing broadcast wake is dozing (6) ?O?S?S

I just can't see this and have reached the going around in circles stage!

Morning Brendan. I worked this out by using the letter removed already from 9d and a word that sounds like (broadcast) to wake someone up.

Brilliant, many thanks Jogamel:-)

I’m struggling to see 24a.
“Concerning friends return as time advances, mixture of hoppers and grunters (5)”
Removed letter/s is E, and I have *TAMR. I can only get STEAMER, which is re + mates reversed with the t advanced. But the definition eludes me. Hoppers and grunters and both types of trout fly, so STREAMER was possible, but there’s no space for the first R. The only other possibility might be METAMER/E, but I can’t get that to work either. Any ideas?

Chambers gives steamer as "Stewed kangaroo flavoured with pork". Yum!

Gosh, I saw that but didn’t make the connection. Fell headlong into the fly fishing elephant trap. Brilliant, buddy, many thanks!

Thematic puzzles often lead me to learn about something new. This one certainly did. And - oddly enough - Googling to link the message to the location produced a short film of the place inhabited by young ladies who had unaccountably neglected to don their outer wear.

I've finished at last. I too found the distinctive phrase unhelpful, and wasted a lot of time searching for the architect of the buildings, rather than of the gardens. Hey ho!

Can I just check that the 5 letter word written underneath is a synonym of "to step, walk or trample" begging T and ending D, only I can't find it written anywhere on sites about the place and also surprised that it is singular rather than plural - or have I got it wrong?

... 'beginning' T and ending D.