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Sorry this is late.

Need help with :
1d. Crazy Roman emperor wanting final
opponent for hungry lion? (7)

22a. Decide to limit number of horses in yard by
the Dee (9)

35a. A fast trade risks losing king’s sources of gum
resin (8)

Still trying to figure out how to enter jumbled entrie.

18a. The cross letters give me jumble of Secure but no idea how the clue parses . Newborn whales are calves. Clue is:

Call to aid a newborn whale (6)

Thanks.

Hi sunray,
1d. [Opponent], slightly unusual synonym for crazy + Roman Emperor short of his final letter.
22a. [Decide], definition is to limit (unusual word), synonym for a number of horses in a Scottish word for yard.
35a. [Trade], a fast (religious) + risks last sing one of the alternatives for king.

18a as you've noted is "normal" ie no extra word.
There's an alternative to calf and is a homophone (call) of to aid.

In 35a. (last sing) should be losing.

Thanks ginge.

ginge, I got all three. So thanks again.
was not aware of the word for horses.
For 35a, I was including A at the beginning.


Still not sure of the whale.

I have all but the last word of quote and the author.
Google has not helped yet.

Still a few to go though.

sunray: the clue has a direct quote from the Chambers definition of the word required

timothyquigley.net/vcs/beckett-company.pdf

Thanks phantom.

Is your hint on a newborn whale?

Hi again sunray, in case phantom doesn't look in again or for a while, yes. The entry specifically mentions newborn whale and also any unweaned animal but you would need to know the entry!
As you have 5 of the 6 letters there are limited possibilities fir a homophone of "to aid/aid".