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Help parsing please, head full of cold is this morning's excuse.
21a Song a small bird relies on (2,4,4, 2) AS TIME GOES BY, but why?

A s for small "time" in prison slang is "bird". Goes by, is relies on.

thank you

34a "Novel keeping (at first) prose writer father in job" (6-6)

W?R?E? - P???S?

31a "Minor US oil works producing fuel" (10)

O?I?U???O? (may have got first O wrong)

Any help much apprevciated

31a ori-mulsion

34a wor k er priest

Thanks xwordfan


That leaves me struggling with just these two:

17d "Before collecting pants, son wearing synthetic material" (5,5)

E?O?Y ?E?I?

8d "Place to stay In Arnhem after November" (5)

H?T?L Looks like it must be HOTEL but don't see the parsing

Again, help appreciated

17

Epoxy resin

Poxy in Ere + S(on) in

H is the letter in arnHem after N (november ) ... phonetic alphabet..

Thanks xwordfan and mamya