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17d: wrongly punctuating one name in notice I put in Chinese. 7 spaces but I think word will be overlong. I have MI??ING. Any ideas anyone.

It might help if you gave us the clue!

I thought that was the clue as dR as the word chinese
(ming)

typo. as far as

Wrongly punctuating is def. I N in 'notice I' in MING. The answer is 11 letters.

I've got the grid filled, with the gap-filing additions. On the highlighting, there are 14 cells which make up the gap-filling us the 'treated' overlong answers. But separately a relevant name is to the right of the grid (using diagonals etc). I assume I highlight the former as the relevant name is 5 cells and there's nothing else obvious to highlight. Anyone else got ideas?

I've got MISPOINTING for that and I assume it's one of the words that are too long. But that doesn't fit in with what I thought made the other three too long.

5d would appear to be UGANDA but I can't see how the word play supplies AND (or NDA).

And I have TONER for 27d. T = 140, plus ONE and R for "take" but I don't see where 100 plus 4 fits in. Is the ONE part of the theme?

TONER isn't thematic. It's got 2 sets of wordplay T and ONE and R (take) and TON plus 4d. Your 17d is correct. Once you get a couple of the overlongs you'll see what to do. 14a was the breakthrough for me.

The extreme characters from GHANA are G AND A.

Orson, I think Uganda is U G and A, and greedy kite, that was the 17d clue I gave after :

I also need advice on 22d please. Forty - a clue for W. I have ?SCOR?. Am I missing something?