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Stuck on two clues:
29A: crafty old horse a length behind favourite (only third) 6: XAXXXL
25D: Ehat serpent shows cutting ultimate bit of sour apple 5
MXXIC
Would be grateful for parsing with answers
Many thanks

25 Malic ?


The only thing I can see, Malic Acid gives the sourness to an apple.

Malic(e)


??

29a favell

Xerxes and Mamya
Many thanks

Sorry to butt in but am curious. Can't find a relevant definition for "favell"....

From Chambers:

(with cap) a name for a chestnut horse, esp used proverbially to mean craftiness or cunning, from the deceitful but much-courted horse Fauvel in the 14c French poem Roman de Fauvel.

my vote for "obscure definition of the month"

Well fancy that (I don't...)!