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I have a word which means to sketch desultorily but I'm struggling to find the answers to the down clues which descend from it ; in fact, with the whole righthand side apart from 24 and 25 down : la lotta continua!

Thanks.

Yes, that's where I'm really struggling too Barretter.

24 an aeronautical term for producing positive thrust (but without the P). 25 is first letters, the whole clue being the definition.

They're the only 2 Barretter does already have from the RHS! (I've got 37D too)

Barretter, 7 is an old word for harmony, rest is an anagram; 8 is an obsolete term for magistrate, 9 - if you're a waste layer, I suppose that means that you lay waste, 10, the definition is 'footy' as in 'of the foot'.

I've now got 7dn which is an anagram of A (for American) and IDEAS plus the missing P and it's one of those Edmund Spenser misspellings so beloved of cryptic crossword setters for a word meaning harmony.
Say not the struggle nought availeth

Oops, posts crossed there.

Thanks Meursault.

I think 38 must be SLEEST but the spelling isn't confirmed in Chambers. I just need to complete 11, 14 and 32 - any ideas? I thought the entry at 15 was inspired!

in 11ac the answer completes the name of Pygmalion's statue inside "gain". 14 provides the name of a sort of drug addict inside "nooner". I have the only possible answer to 32ac but I have yet to insert it correctly. Still puzzled by 42 across an the central column. I presume you have to insert numbers at certain points.