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marvellous😁 and thanks, muraria

It was the "later on" that misled me. In the north a lot of folk refer to "lunch" as "dinner" so to dine doesn't necessarily indicate to eat late - we are a common lot!!

Bobby, you’ll be pleased that Chambers agrees in part. It says dinner is “the chief meal of the day, at midday or (usu) in the evening”. Doubtless you’d change (usu) to (for namby-pamby southern softies)

Finished! Would have been sooner if I hadn’t wasted time looking for names of famous lions! I still don’t understand 52ac apart from the soup. Could someone explain please?

Teenieleek,
It's (ara)p(a)ho

excellent quisling😁

I think I’ll forgive myself for that one! Thank you.

I'm having real trouble with the bottom quarter of this, having set it aside on Saturday and picking it up again this evening. Are the quotations in ODQ?

Cockie, I got bits of the first quote the googled, with success. That gives you the context, and you’ll recognise the second quote immediately, but may need ODQ or Google for its last two words.

Quite a feat to fit in all the thematic items, I think.
I had to reverse engineer the parsing for many clues after I Googled the quote. The last to work out was 37a, partly because of alternative spellings of the fifth word of the first quote. I wonder if Nimrod initially clued 37a for the historic alternative.