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That was just lovely. Thank you, Android.

It seems you have found the 'resting place', williamseal. You need to move all the 29 cells - including contents! - to the resting place. The exact position becomes clear when you see that the base of the character creates a new word that is very apposite to the literary source.
(It was only with hindsight that I realised the need for the jumbled letters in 17 grid entries: allowing new words to be formed when this relocation takes place. Hats off again to Android.)

What a wonderful puzzle, I do agree.
But I wonder if someone could explain what exactly "overwriting" means. Does it mean replacing existing letters with others, or does it mean writing small letters above the existing ones, i.e. two letters in each relevant cell ?
Sorry to be so ignorant !
Thank you.

Thank you jif73 for giving me the final push that took me across the line

Having finished I now see just how incredible a construction it was - the crossword equivalent of Barry John's 1971 try again New Zealand Universities. No higher praise is possible

Hello all - and help, please help! I've been gradually getting there with this one, but the jumbled clues are jumbling my brain - and I simply cannot get a grip on 8D and 28D. I think with them, then everything else should slot into place... or at least that's what I'm hoping!

Hi suzannahj- neither of those are jumbles. The misprints are in the last words. 8d is an anagram and 28d is relatively straightforward wordplay once you know the definition is last two words

Could someone help me re my post (113) about overwriting ?
Thanks.

Hi Samovar, you are putting the 29 cell shape and the letters in those cells into a new location, replacing the letters in those 29 cells.

Thank you very much indeed ,Ixion.
Apologies for my ignorance !

Hi Candledave!

Thanks ever so much for the nudges. I'd already guessed the replacements right, but still couldn't see the answers without your help. How on earth I missed 8D I'll never know! Well, actually, I do know - I got hooked on the idea of iron being FE.

Right! Let's go finish my drawing and see if I can make it fly...

Suzannah