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Could do with help to complete last three clues please.

57D Learner's ascendant in indoor game and outdoor game (4)

?O?O /assume it's POLO with L for learner but not seeing rest of wordplay

40A Instrument son played for people once (6) ???O?S / assume it's SPOONS with SON plus SPO but not seeing the wordplay

40a Saxons

57d Indoor game= POOL, with L rising, becomes POLO

Great mattrom and thanks

Sorry one last clue

36D Man's somewhere down under (6) ?A?R?S

40a I have spoons s + poons (a poon is Australian slang for a foolish person)

36d I was thinking of sports

I would go for Mattron's "Saxons" see post 2
Saxons = people once (def)
Sax- instrument
on- played
s - son

36d) Cairns

I agree with Mattrom & Elle re Saxons.
Just a minor point : I don't see why on = played .
I think "played" is the anagram indicator for "sons" which becomes "ons"
I am happpy to be corrected though.

The only snag with that reasoning, JG, is that the clue, as given, says "son" and not "sonS"?
Bradford gives "on" for "played".
Perhaps Mattrom will look in and say what she had in mind.