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4. SAND (polish) BOLT (quickly put away, as in food) in STUN floor- reversed)

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2d. Difficult and tragic figure with head lowered
EARL

1d. Swell reaching great volume?
TOFF

9a. Link breaking on birthday
FORTIETH

26a. Nearly go out in Germany's capital, say
GUTTER

Parses for the above please.

26 Gutter, flicker, nearly go out (a candle, for example). G, Germany's capital, capital/first letter and Utter, say.

1. Toff, swell, posh person. To, reaching and FF, the musical notation for very loud, great volume.

9 Tie, link, inside (breaking) Forth, on (we set forth, we moved on etc).

2 I think Lear, King Lear, was the difficult and tragic figure. If you move his first letter, head lowered, you get Earl. It seems definition-less?

The original clue (Times 27,702) is…

Noble and tragic figure with head lowered (4)

So Malone’s parse is correct with noble as definition.

Thanks, Jono. I ignored that clue to start with as I felt something was missing... and I was correct!

Thanks for the help as ever.