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Finished without any help! Yes GK, good poem and I'm ashamed to say never heard of him. The depths of my ignorance are of Mariana Trench proportions.

Well done gk. Really stuck on this one! Perhaps you can give me a couple of hints or answers. 28a Discard sphere brittle when hot (8) ????HA?E and 15d Be fit, busy person. penning verse after cessation (6) ??HO?? and finally 15a Bad book returned formerly with speed (5) ?L???
Probably too late for you but 8.30pm here in Canada

Hi, Farr: I've just got up here!
15a Synonym for bad + abb. for book, all reversed, =archaic word for speed (in Ch. of course)
15d Def. "befit" (ONE word); busy animal surrounding abb. verse after 2-letter word for stop
28a It's one of those "hidden consecutive jumbles", extra letter P, def. "hot" ("brittle is the anagrind).
And btw all the letters you have already are correct.
Good luck!

28 A is one of the 17 clues with jumbled letters.
15 D is just an old-fashioned word for 'be fit' - and contains a 3-letter word for a 'busy person', a one-letter abbreviation for 'verse' and a 2-letter word for 'cessation' (which I didn't know, but got from crossing letters).
15 A. It's 'b' for 'book' and a 4-letter word (reversed) for 'bad' (actually 'very bad' is more accurate).

I've ground to a halt on three of the unclued lights and can't see what they are supposed to match.
4a SA?I?I?N?
11a NA???
3d HA??R?
gtfl help & advice if some ofthe letters are wrong

This is really too much, but in the Christmas spirit.........................

4a magicians = wonderworkers
11a naive = small-town
3d havers = owners

It's your fault if I get lynched by the others now.....................

tks v much greedy kite - hope u don't get any grief. i don't ask often - i thought of havers/naive but wouldn't have turned havers into owners & misread 4d. appcted.

Is the checked square where 19dn and 27ac cross a T, or have I gone wrong somewhere?

That letter IS a T.

Ta, much obliged.