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One of the easier end inquisitors but I am short of one clue answer : 10d ) For Spenser, call a groom outside to plaster with dung(7) -there is an additional letter to be ignored in the word play . Thanks

It's an uncommon spelling of an old word meaning "to call".

There's a four-letter word meaning "to coat with cow-dung" inside the last three letters of a four-letter word meaning "a groom for a horse".

I imagine if you're at the end, that you've already worked out what the missing letter at the beginning is.

No idea but the plaster with dung is likely to be leep

Thank you both - combined together I now have the answer .

I thoroughly enjoyed that one. How do they come up with these themes?

Thanks to Chalicea for another fun puzzle with a lovely quaint an amusing theme.

I had actually made an error in 11d by putting COOK meaning "to dart in and out of sight" (Scot.) which I thought was a good enough definition for "in Perth dodge" - luckily the highlighting of the name included the incorrect first letter, thus saving my blushes 😳