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Nearly finished on a Tuesday!! First time for everything!! can you help with the last few? Answers and parsing would be fab .... Thanks in advance xxx

53ac Cutting the funeral ceremony? (9)
E - - - A - - - G

40dn I hand out object, as intended (3,2,4)
H - D / - N / - - - T

56ac Virtually everybody prepared to reject scientist (5)
T - - - A

53a engraving
40d had in mind

53 engraving? 40d had in mind? 56a tesla

56a Tesla

57 die down

engraving??

Thank you all... could you help with parsing them please? xxx

As no-one else has come forward I'll have a go but I didn't find them very satisfying clues. Maybe I've been missing something.

Engraving - just a play on words?

Tesla = scientist
virtually everybody = al(l)
prepared = set
but I can't see how the anagram works.

Had in mind
I can see 'I hand' is outside an anagram of 'mind' but that's as far as it goes. Sorry

rossim, great minds think alike! I had exactly what you had.tesla=al(L)+set

object=mind