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Certainly at the easier end of the scale. Some well hidden misprints, so much so that I haven't yet got the three examples formed by them. Nevertheless, I'm confident about the completed grid.

Now got the 3 examples, definitely some devious misprints!!

I would class this as a "B" grade Magpie puzzle. It took me around two (entertaining) hours. Good to have a conventional grid with a lot of well concealed misprints. Admittedly 4 gave the game away a little too readily, but a very enjoyable puzzle nonetheless.

I thought some of the misprints were very easy to spot (indeed they shouted out where they were) while others were so contrived I struggled to work them out even when I had the answer.

I couldn't really see the point of the misprints. Normally a clue gimmick conveys essential, or at least helpful information to enable the solver to complete the puzzle, but these weren't necessary at all. If one fails to work out some of the correct letters it makes no difference whatsoever, and it is almost impossible to make sense of them until one has the them anyway.

Quite an easy one this week. I got 4 down from a Chambers word search with just the third and tenth letter. There were 427 possible options but only three were 4 word phrases.
The only slight hitch was that I identifed two missing letters incorrectly making the end game trickier. I had an A in 17 and a Y in 21. Both work in the context of their clues so I did not think I had made a mistake and made it quite difficult to spot the pattern in the missing letters until I had almost all of the rest of them.

Given the nature of what is displayed by the misprints, any ambiguities are particularly unfortunate. In addition to the ones you fell victim to there are at least two perfectly valid answers to 33a. My advice to anyone is to delay entering an answer until they have one of the downs crossing it. Double definition clues with a misprint to a short entry are very risky, and are probably best avoided. In this case there are two virtual unchecked letters in a four-letter entry, making it yet more hazardous.

Fairly easy, but I chuckled at quite a few of the clues when I realized where the misprint was. And at 8 Down when I realized that the surface meaning of the clue was describing the final scene of a fairly recent movie.

On the other hand, I'm not wild about the hyphen in 11 Across and what I think are flawed definitions in 20 Across and 26 Down.