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Thanks thrice, Malone!
44, yes of course, silly, I just couldn’t see cases as the definition, felt sure it was part of wordplay.
5, I still don’t get the first letter..?
14, that’s what I thought, I see the word in Word Wizard but can’t see it in Chambers itself.....oh is it a proper noun?

Thanks, Lumen.

in 5, the first letter comes from Latin - it's often used, for 'see'.
14 It's in my Chambers, but under the four-letter word.

Lumen. In 5 the one letter for ‘see’ is from the Latin for see. It’s in Bradford’s.

I suspect you’ve used a K in 14 but that’s not the king letter you want

5; I’ve never seen that abbreviation, I do see it in Chambers.
Still confused by 14 - a dancer, yes, but a songbird? (They are the only two King letters I know.)

Lumen, maybe you know the bird as the grasshopper-warbler?

I do now!
An enigma wrapped in an mystery wrapped in a conundrum etc comes to mind.

Lumen, thanks.

Is it yourself, the clue or the puzzle that is 'an enigma...'?

I'm not quite sure what you are implying, malone.
I'm just saying, as I have solved 43 out of the 45 clues, that I think 14a is particularly (and possibly, unfairly) obscure!

Thanks, Lumen. As that clue seemed relatively straightforward to me, I thought you were perhaps making a more general comment. I'm sure there must be other clues where the reverse is true, where you 'see' them right away and I had to grind my way to the answer.

Wow! I thought this was stunning. To include the two sets + the extra letters AND arrange it so the true identity makes real words etc.
Hat off and courtly bow to eXternal!