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4d. Dish I take boiled with regular fruity contents. I have ?e?????p. Also 14d. Teacher initially read books with perfect binding. ????I. Hopefully, I can then complete todays offering.

Are you sure of the P in 4d?
It could be TERIYAKI
"I TAKE" boiled (anagram) with regular fRuItY

R A BB I

rabbi

thank you chrise, teriyaki makes a great deal of sense. I had appian for 17a, the clue was roman historian and primate ?????n.

Thank you rambler and rossim, yes, rabbi. This corner really is confusing me.

simian?

rossim, I have now put gibbon for 17a ????????????.

Nice clue, actually - Edward Gibbon wrote a history of the decline of the Roman Empire

chrise, Again thanks for your help and everybody else, finally finished it so time to look at the horses today. They too are difficult to fathom out as it were, over and out.