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hw7 & lumen - many thanks for that. It was entirely new to me.

Had the first across answer in the wrong place, which held me up for a long time. All done except I can't find the quotation, whichever way I look. I think that's enough for this week; the first puzzle for ages that I haven't finished.

Have you got the thirteen letters to give the book? They are in order.

Yes, and I have made the rectangle.

Is there consensus as to how to position the rectangle and empty cells in the submission grid?

It won’t matter

Just came back to it, and there's the quotation. A tricky puzzle, but satisfying in the end.

Just got this finished. A little over complicated for me but i may be missing something. I still haven't fully parsed the insect clue or kirkcaldy's objective, so any help there would be very welcome. I know both are thematic. I liked the use of the quotation but i thought the thematics were inconsistently adjusted. Am i wrong? I usually am.

Mullingar, in Kircaldy's, "slate" and a 4-letter word have a mutual definition in Chambers as "a .... list of candidates"

Wordplay as given
Insect: abbreviation for adult, synonym for was, another's head. A clever clue because 'nipping' can refer to the wordplay or the definition.
Kirkcaldy: Scottish words for objective and slate (not the stone sort), usual abbreviation.
As for the adjustments: I guess they were all anagrams, although the Scotsman clue was maybe a pointer for the endgame.