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Also is 17a a place name hidden in the clue? That's what I've written in, but it's not giving me good crossers to fit with anything else!

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No ..Wilhelm lived there.... Doorn

Thanks Scarlett, I thought of instantial, can you give parsing?
I'll ponder on the other one.

I think it's 'set against' = ANTI with 'position' = INSTAL outside.

Thanks drxx

All done apart from the usual incomprehensibility of some clues:

34ac Worn strip-light fixture, so you're told? Must be SASH, but why?
44ac Infection common, maybe it's caught through the rectum. Must be LEPRA, which takes care of 'infection', but then ...?
19dn Rousing delivery from best friend's brother. Solves itself as FRA, but what do first five words of clue mean?

I think 34 is a double def - (sash) window = 'light fixture' + strip that's worn.
'lea' is 'common' in the sense of arable land, with P(er) R(ectum) inside
FRA (I think) is the sound of a dog - 'arf' backwards.

Thanks drxx. The Araucarian style of clue ('strip-light' as a compound of two separate clue components) has always jarred with me. If true, it still leaves 'so you're told?' unaccounted for.

Many clues were ingenious but fair. Is Radler a new setter?

I think that's why the 'sounds like...' indicator is there, ionacarr - but I'm not sure it's legitimate in the context of a definition (or, double def in this case) surely the definition is still as written - '...strip-light...', not what it sounds like - ...'strip' (+) 'light...'.
However, I also liked the inventiveness of some of the clues, so I don't mind the odd swerve along the way (if that's what it is).