I’m still working on that fgsltw. On one of my many jaunts down wrong paths I thought I had something... the first word from the extra downs took me to A Midsummer Night’s Dream and I worked out that G was the middle letter of ‘summer night's dream’!
I’ve finally completed the tricky endgame having scratched my head over the mirror symmetry (I was trying to make 8 of the letters in each word symmetrical about a diagonal line before I spotted it at last). And creating the 10 new words took longer than it should’ve done.
There’s only one I can’t parse if any of you good folk can help me and that’s 36a. Thanks