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Why is it all the little ones I find trouble with ?
Help and explanations please. Thank you.
24a. Ex-giant literally. (4) ?ten
6d. Aftermath of hostilities up north. (4) raw?

rawn - variant of rowen = aftermath.

Thank you both so much ....... ;o)

24a eten from ex - e + x(x=10)

Quite few dodgy clues in this one, watchout for the rogue hyphens in particular (24a, 31a, 15d and 33d) - the setter must have shares in them !!

Also the anagram indicator in 2d seems to have slipped into the definition ?

Semis?

12 Gnomes, are pithy sayings ?

Semis was a Roman bronze coin valued at half an as

12 Gnomae, pithy sayings. (Chambers gives both the 's' and the 'ae' endings for the plural).

It is E for English and Among, found in. 'Rejected' = reversed.

One definition, in Chambers, of 'down' is an undulating upland tract of pasture-land' - so uplands are downs!

I am not very good at parsing - you might have noticed?