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Play At , frivolously try - Alp, mountain and Tay, tea, Irish drink. Climbing = reversed.

Many thanks - easy when you know! Unsure of the 1st letter for 43: Decoy in the boonies....

The first part of the answer appears in the clue... just after where you stopped!

Duh!!

All finished now but still struggling to parse 'Light metal ...' as a clue to SCALENE.

Aluminium, Al

Thank you. Should also have said that despite having the fully cross-checked answers I can't parse 'African ...' and 'Gap ...' Always a shame when such long words are served up unch-free. It niggles when the clues are mystifying.

IonaCarr, the Gap is an Intervital minus It : a clue which would have served well in last week's puzzle perhaps. For the African, I'm less certain, but I thought maybe Calla might be the African native.

Thanks, Meursault, for the parsing of 19D, which I couldn’t see. For 13d, it’s SAN (African Bushman) + U (accepted) + L(I)LAC, all reversed. Slightly dubious, as Chambers defines “lilac” as a tree rather than a shrub (though it’s a shrub according to Wikipedia).

...and thanks for the explanation of 13D, Wintonian.