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Help please with 1 across? Does it have a dot, I only have 5 so far.
(I suspect I have 1 down wrong despite the earlier advice. I thought it was STIPES)

1 across has a dot.

1 down 5 letters plus a dot. Def is made of strips. Extra letter comes from Leaves For Covering.

Thanks I have them both of those now.
And my dots, and the lines and shape.
But my highlighting so far is one with 9 and one with ten letters, leaving a 3. Is that right?

Hi Lumen,

9,7 and 6

Lumen you're not the only one that's struggled but I'm just about there. It was only when I got the theme (and from that the location) I realised they were different extra letters for 1ac and 1dn. Glad you got there.

Many of the clues really tough and quite a few I only got because of getting the theme or the hints on here (like 39d - thanks primeprospect). Still not sure of the wordplay on some.

Hardly any familiar words in the grid. Even then like 40ac, it's the most obscure definition possible.

Unfairest clue competition: 24dn - surely fairer to give us what sort of species rather than the year it died out. Were we supposed to go through hundreds/thousands of gods till we found a heartless one that gave an extinct species or find a list of extinct species by year?

Enjoy a challenge but hoping for something just a little easier next time.

Though the wiki page for 1627 does mention the aurochs. The objection I have to the clue is more about accuracy; the wiki page is careful to use a caption : "...last recorded aurochs..." however the setter seems to have developed superhuman knowledge and asserts that this aurochs was the last one.

Good point Meursault. A bit big to hide under a rock (or roch) but there may still be a few out there in some rarely visited wilderness.