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Enjoyed most of this but is 9d really avuncular and why? Ditto 16a oxtail?

oh well done i would never have got that, thank you.

The one I'm not happy about is:

48A Brings back old academic, a dinosaur. (8)

S _ E _ O _ O _

I'm thinking it's STEGODON which fits everything save for the fact that it isn't a dinosaur but an extinct elephant-relative! Anyone got anything better?

Yes, Stegodon. Gets, brings (back = reverse, so Steg) O, old and Don, academic.
It's classed as a Dinosaur in Bradford's crossword dictionary - and in many, many books for children!

Thanks malone. I wouldn't argue with either as they're both bigger than me!

Bilbow, thanks. I think I'd simply accepted it as a dinosaur, but when I checked Chambers I could see it isn't!

Avuncular: kind. AV: authorised version of bible. Ambiguous: unclear add u for universe, remove e for energy.

confused by new layout with explanations appearing above the question rather than following. Am I alone in this?

Bilbao, 8th January...
Today's Jumbo carries a correction to 48 Across. It should have been

Brings back old academic, one that could be seen as a fossil.