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Do try this tour de force. A brilliant puzzle by Ifor that just keeps on giving.
Many thanks to Ifor and to John for the consistently high standard of the Inquisitor now well ahead of the Listener for enjoyment.

Well I've really enjoyed the left hand half.. Getting nowhere with the right, I'll come back to it over Sunday coffee!

Same here sloth. Can someone help with 36a. Country blues isn’t bad on endless reels (6) one word is redundant. I have no letters.

I haven't got a solution for 36a but I'm pretty certain the 3rd& 4th letters are S and N.

Blues is redundant. Drop the last letters from the middle three words (endless). Reels is an anagrind

I've found the "source" which I remember vaguely as my children sang the chorus continually (they had no idea what the words meant, of course), and I've a full grid ... but the relevance of the omitted words on the RHS eludes me. As does their connection to the extra bits on the left.

3rd February 1959