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A difficult one this week! Some help is appreciated for the following, please!
ACROSS:
11 Effective delay ordering litre(5): MU??? ( Provided my 2DOWN -Cousin - is right )
16 Liberal in tense function backing recruit(6)
EI???E
DOWN:
23 Changing aim, officers are supporting Bible prayer ( 8, two words): A????R??
26 Lifted traps containing little honey(7)
M???T??

11a moral
mora = delay + l(litre)
2d is actually amount
mo = second inside aunt
16a enlist
the function is sine (trig function maths)
t=tense
l=liberal
23d ave maria
av = authorised version of bible + angarm of aim are
officers is the extra word here

26 Down

The traps are the sort used to catch fish (reversed) and little is a 3 letter synonym often used by Scots. The definition HONEY is here used as a verb.

Thanks for the very comprehensive replies, bunty!

Apologies.

NETS (reversed) around WEE

S WEE TEN

Thank you, turast!

Help for a few more puzzling ones, please!
14a Excellent working element(5) : ?A??F
15a One after start of gale in standard scarf(5):
????I
27a Fool pushes ideas, yielding grand promises(7):
????R?S
33a Northern duck(6): H??O?R

Many thanks

14 Radon, element. (Rad = excellent, on= working)
15 Pagri, scarf (par = start, g= start of 'gale' +i =one)
27 Assures, promises (ass urges, take out the 'g' ). I think 'ideas' was superfluous.
33. Is a thematic answer - have you got the theme itself?

Thanks, Malone, but the theme is still eluding me! Perhaps when I figure out the following I should be able to get a clue. Help appreciated with these:
ACROSS:
1 Interesting stone in river(5): TA???
24 EYRE?
35 Some problem loading merchant's wheat(5):
E??E?
38 Remark about very old theatre(5): ????Y
DOWN:
5 Keen about time in support(5): ?C?D
7 Odd bits of hair near small bone(6): ?A?A?S
30 End unhappily,losing force, accepting hard draw(6): ????LO

1a TASTY - st(stone) inside river Tay
24 eine _old word for eyes - flier is the extra word
35 emmer - hidden in the clue - loading is the extra word
38 sa vo y
5 a c id- time is the extra
7d nasal - odd letters of near small - hair is the extra
30d in h ale - Finale - lose the f , then take in h(hard) - unhappily is the extra