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Sorry, missed 27. Definition is at the beginning.

I’ve got R?N?
SN?O?
?ER?

natty969 ... your letters are correct

Although completed fine at weekend ... still have trouble with wordplay for 28D ... 'Eliminate local fragment etc' ... presuming I have the correct answer the Defn could be synonym of first or last word ...

Thanks all for the nudges. Happily completed, but needed the earlier hints to find the quote listed in the Oxford Mail.

Struggling mightily with the SE corner and the unclued name.

Are the last letters of 27d and 28d T and L respectively? I have answers that fit the definitions but can't make any sense of either word play.

If correct I have all the letters in the name apart from the last one (can't make head or tail of 32d), but am having no joy. Does the first name begjn with R? Any suggestions for identifying the name from all but one of the available letters?

Yes, the first name does begin with R. I didn't fare well with the wordplay for the clues you mentioned, but I found the person online. The surname looks like something found in a kitchen, but with the spelling of a young child...

As mentioned a few posts earlier still looking for wordplay for 28D but for 27D if you have Defn ... take next word in clue as an anagrind ...

27d is an anagram (out) of on and the truncated last word.
28d is ex, outside, and car fuel missing three-letter word for fragment reversed (arising)

Thanks Quisling - a real blind spot - in my musings had amongst others fragment (dialect) and fuel but outside only finishing in O - For us oldies should have recalled ex-directory...