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Thank you for that Bobbibunny. 5 down is still proving elusive but 7 down is threat ( warning ) round e ( end of guarantee )= thereat. The fun will be putting the first and last letters inside the circles given my normal handwriting.

Back again Bobbibunny. 5 down is 11 letters and the definition is princess. It is a title used on the continent rather than in Britain.

Thanks alwayspuzzled. I think I need to have another look at 6a - that must be my final 42.
Thanks to Oxymoron for a really good challenge.

I've read the posts in this thread - thanks everyone- but am stumped on how to enter the 39s at the clashes. I seem to have more than six and I don't see the 42s anywhere. Some hints would be gratefully received.
I'm feeling befuddled with this - I blame the heat!

Bobbibunny, the second cell of 6 across is indeed one of six. The definition is staff and it is "the" round abbreviations for younger and son. The second and third letters form the anagram together with the first three letters from 7 down.
Gazzar, I originally thought I had more than six. There are just six and the letter clashes in each can be anagrammed to form six 42s on a Kent heritage line. Put a 39 in each of those six cells and put the first and last letters of the resolved anagram in the 39. Google Kent heritage lines if you are still unsure.

Thanks alwayspuzzled. I should have seen the shape of the coastline and twigged it earlier as I live in Kent and have been on that line a few times. Doh!

Good morning all. I have read all your posts and very helpful they have been, but, stupidly, I am totally stumped by the preamble and although I have 6 very strange answers that obviously need considerable adjustment plus I think I have 11d & 39a (as you see, I am having difficulty with the normal clues too) but I still can't see how to change them. Would also like help with 20d as I have what seems to be an obvious answer to the word play but the answer doesn't fit well with the BRB definition, and it also messes up what I tentatively had for 27a., having trouble parsing that too. Help much appreciated, I do find this compiler very difficult.

Manic Mary, 27 across is one of many terms for navels while 20 down is given in Chambers Crossword Dictionary as a meaning. albeit an obscure one, of grant. ( S for society + a word meaning terminate. ) The clashes are in the second cell of 6 across, the seventh cell of 11 across, the fourth cell of 15 across, the second cell of 21 across, the second cell of 35 across and the third cell of 41 across. The clashing letters from the across and down answers can be anagrammed to form the names of 6 42s on the line referred to in my previous post. Put a 39 in each of those six cells and put the first and last 11 of each of the resolved anagrams inside its own 39 ( small writing required ). I struggle with all the compilers not just Oxymoron and had it not been for Bobbibunny's excellent hint I would never have finished this.

Thank you Alwayspuzzled, do you perhaps mean 14a as there is no 11a and 11d only has 6 letters. I have 9 letters in 15a and only need 5 + 10 letters in 13d and only need 5, etc. I see were you are with the Heritage bit but my 42a has an O where I think there should be an A, if of course I am on the right track (sic).

Mary,check your 42 A answer in Chambers.
The 'right track' amused me!