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I think it's not so much an old word as a dialect word (according to Chambers) which accounts for "in the country" before "bound". The one that puzzles me is 33ac. I presume the "bar" part comes from "barm" minus its "m" but I don't understand how Champagne comes into the picture. For a while I thought it might signify "best" but then I couldn't explain "ar"??

barm= yeast; "est" Fr. for "is"; extra letter "m"!

Hi folk , as so often happens I have one clue unsolved . Have fitted in all the unchecked letters which appear to be OK with 36 D as 'FINE'. That makes the clue left unsolved as 'N?LLS'. Looks like I have slipped up somewhere! Any hints gratefully received
Cheers.

NULLS, NUTS around LL with T extra.

Null and dissolve both mean to annul
Nut = "A small, often ginger-flavoured biscuit or round cake"

Thanks Kilgore Trout, I don't think I would ever have come up with that one ! Grid now complete but no idea as to the poet. Fortunately not required this time.

George Mackay Brown's novel "Time in a Red Coat" www.caricom.org or
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Thanks Greedy Kite. I should have taken my own advice about "lep". "In Champagne" means "in the French province with that name" rather than being a reference to the drink. Doh!

Thanks sudokulover . Always somthing new to learn .