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Done the TLHC and some of the BRHC, but stuck now and need some hints to re-boot.

6d Bottle old pain up in crowd (8) ???I???M
16d Discern little entrance (5) S??E?
31a General strike mostly around festival (8) ???O???
38a Maintain required isolation (10)

Some of these might be a definition with a hidden consecutive jumble (+ 1 extra letter) - any hints appreciated

6d biblical bottle name ... your i is wrong......
(15a torpOrific)
16d idiscERN LITtle with R as extra
31a catholic defn general
38a the jumbled anagram is inside maintainrequired and it's sometimes for 40days? starts with a Q...

Thanks Kirky - that's a big help

Finding this tough this week, about half done.
Any tips please before I give up.

I think these are non-thematic, ie straight clues: are they?
32 Urge to follow fashion in shawl T?N?A?
35 Right rural setting ?i?L?
23 Delay lesson left out ?o?a

Any pointers for my last big one- 3. Sharp line in neat broadcast. (10)
Should be a simple anagram? Don't really have any letters as don't have much in top left corner yet!
Or it could be thematic - ie clue contains a hidden anagram with one extra letter.

32 ns 23 are normal, 35 is thematic.

Sharp line... Astringent, sharp. I think String = Line and the rest is Neat anagrammed.

Thanks Malone I have all those ones now. I will see if astringent helps me move on!

Glad I could help, Lumen. I'm sorry I didn't give the pointers you asked for, just the answer!