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Has everyone completed without help today? I am so late to start. Please can someone suggest a couple of solutions for me? 11a: reviewing replacement of Webs first noun with verb. (7) I have VE??ING
38a: Warren is Clyde initially in supporting part (9) I have possibly ?NDER ???R

11a VETTING from 'netting'?

Netting - web with n noun replaced by v verb - vetting?

Yes, it's VETTING all right, but the first T is one of the clashes, and in order to work it has to become VEOTING. Google doesn't suggest that this word (not in BRB) exists anywhere else - not even a remote geographical location. The fact that I can't solve 14A (-N-IN-) where the first letter is also a clash suggests that I may have this area of the puzzle wrong. But the "three-word phrase" is in the obvious place, and makes complete sense with 1A, so summat's oop. But what?

could 14a be onions? and 38a underwear (it has warren in it)??

I think 38a is UNDERCLAY, which is what a warren can be (2nd def in Chambers). As for ONIONS, I think 15d begins with an I.

The two clashing letters have to be replaced by a third in order to make the three-word phrase. 14A begins with E but haven't worked out the wordplay.

To veg (vegetate) means to unwind. But I cannot work out the word play.

muraria - in all the other clashes the phrase is given by one of the clashing letters, so I doubt very much that the clash in 14 is any different. ENDIVE is a veg, but the 5th letter (not in the line of clashes) is definitely N. I think it's UNWIND, as suggested, but I can't tease out the wordplay either.

To get is 'win' boxed in open (undo) cut -o